Program Overview

Open Games Workshop

The Open Games Workshop is a lecture course that focuses on game development, game design, and augmented reality. The course is designed for Master's students in Media Informatics and Computer Science.

Lecturer and Credits

• Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Höhl
• Hours per week: 4
• ECTS credits: 6
• Module: P 5.0.2 or P 5.0.4: Group project on advanced topics in Computer Science I or II, P2, P3, or P6: In-depth topics for Master's students

News

• The workshop is only open to students of Media Informatics/Computer Science (Master's).
• Under special circumstances, Bachelor's students can participate (see Participants).

Termine and Ort

• Workshops: 9am-1pm, Oettingenstr. 67 | L U114 Sibirien, with Thomas Schneider and Lukas Lang, Aesir Interactive GmbH, Munich
  • 15-17 May: Module 1, Game Design and Game Development
  • 29-31 May: Module 2, Working with the Unreal Engine
  • 26-28 June: Module 3, Project Workshop
• Final presentations: 9am-1pm, Oettingenstr. 67 | L U114 Sibirien
  • 17 July: Project Workshop
  • 18 July: Final Project Submission
  • 19 July: Presentations of Workshop Results

Contents

The workshop functions like a "Bar-Camp" with multiple parallel sessions for students and with partners from industry, business, and research. The focus areas include:

• Game Development
• Game Design
• Augmented Reality
• Sim Games
• Simulation and industrial applications
• 3D real-time visualization with Open Source Software Three modules cover digital real-time technologies, 3D simulation, and game engines. All workshop results are collected and presented at the end.

Students

The lecture course is suitable for:

• Students of Media Informatics (Master's)
• Students of Computer Science (Master's) The event is designed for Master's students and can only be credited towards a Master's degree. For Bachelor's students, there is the possibility to attend the event and collect ECTS credits for the Master's degree in advance. However, it is not possible to apply the credits to the current Bachelor's degree. The number of participants is limited to 24 students. There is a waiting list for additional participants. Bachelor's students can only participate if the spot is not already taken by a Master's student.

Registration

Due to high demand, only applications are accepted since the winter semester 2016/2017. The new registration remains closed. All students who have already registered for the course in previous semesters do not need to apply again. They will automatically be considered for participation in the order of their initial registration.

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