FTCC Simulation and Game Development (game creation) Web Site

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Link to FTCC Web site.  Link to Dr. Pulsipher's games Web site

Do you want to create video games?
 It won’t happen if you don’t make it happen.  Here’s a way to start:
FTCC’s new classes in

 “Simulation and Game Development”

Classes this coming fall
SGD-111 Introduction to SGD
SGD-112 Game Design
SGD 113 Game Programming
SGD-114 3D Modeling
Huskins versions (high school only) of some of these classes in the afternoons

 

 
•  Save time and effort by avoiding the “school of hard knocks”
•  These techniques work for simulations as well as games
•  Take advantage of Dr. Lew Pulsipher’s experience (pulsiphergames.com or pulsipher.net/gameindex.htm)
•  Work in the industry!

Two year degree available

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For more information call Kenneth Kleiner at Fayetteville Tech:      678-8572
 
 
News:
 

Articles by FTCC faculty member published on major game development site

 

More articles written by a member of Fayetteville Technical Community College's Simulation and Game Development curriculum were recently published by Gamasutra/Game Career Guide.

"The Nature of Games in the 21st Century", 5 Mar 09

"Opinion: What Does 'Game Developer' Mean?" 2 March 09.

The virulent reaction from programmers to this one shows how much the industry is dominated by the "superiority of programmers" mentality, and also how much programmers are fearful for their jobs right now.

"Characteristics of Successful Game Designers" 23 Dec  '08.

"Opinion: Why Immersion Shouldn't Be The 'Holy Grail'" 19 Dec ‘08.

“Idea Origins”  9 Dec '08

These follow three other articles on GameCareerGuide published in September and October.

Gamasutra and Game Career Guide (GCG), owned by Game Developer Magazine, are the premier Web sites for those interested in video game creation.  Gamasutra is aimed at game industry professionals, while GCG is aimed at those who are learning and want to work in the industry.

            gamasutra.com

            gamecareerguide.com

Dr. Lewis Pulsipher (Ph.D. Duke) is the designer of half a dozen published boardgames, and was the first person in the NC community college to teach game design classes (fall 2004).  A computer expert, he worked for more than nine years as programmer and chief of PCs and networks at Womack Army Medical Center.  He has over 17,000 classroom hours of teaching experience including over 20 years of part-time graduate teaching experience.

His most well-known game is Britannia.  Britannia is a strategically deep four player game of epic proportions (4-5 hour playing time) depicting the history of Great Britain from the Roman invasion to the Norman conquest (44-1066 AD).  It is played primarily for entertainment but is also used in some schools to teach "dark Ages" history.  Originally published in three countries beginning in 1986, with a new edition in 2006, a new printing of Britannia in four foreign languages is forthcoming later this fall.  It was recently described in a review in Armchair General magazine online as “one of the great titles in the world of games.”

            Web site: pulsiphergames.com.

            Game design blog:  pulsiphergamedesign.blogspot.com.

Fayetteville Technical Community College is offering classes in game creation (SGD, Simulation and Game Development).  First-year classes began this fall, with more offered this spring both for high school students (“Huskins” and dual enrollment) and college students.  There is also a six-class certificate program in "Interactive 3D".  For more information call Kenneth Kleiner, (910) 678-8572.

 

 

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