Current active course description (last updated 2019/20)
Game Lab 4 - Entertainment Technologies
SPO2120
Current active course description (last updated 2019/20)

Game Lab 4 - Entertainment Technologies

SPO2120

Game Lab is a work simulator aiming to give the students a controlled environment in which to learn how to work together in a development team. Game Lab should be treated by the students as a normal day at work in a video game production company.

The aim for the teams is to produce a game or an experience product based on technologies and topics taught in other subjects like MMT1050 Introduction to 3D modelling, SPO1410 Programming 3D Games and MMT1040 Digital Media

SPO1311 Game Lab 2
SPO1110 Grunnleggende Programmering og SPO2110 Game Lab 3.

After completing this subject the students will have:

Knowledge about:

  • Working in a project with a defined deadline
  • Working in and organizing work in a team project
  • How the individual parts of a project organization functions as a bigger unit

Skills within:

  • The topics the student has chosen to improve his or hers special competence through the project

General competence in:

  • Working in organized teams
  • Participating in practical projects
  • Evaluating their own and others efforts in a team
No tuition fees. Semester fees and cost of course literature apply.
The subject focuses mainly on giving the students the opportunity to develop their own ideas to publishable products. The students are also given a primer on using project management tools and a basic introduction to economic aspects in software production.
Evaluation using mid-term and final surveys. Students are also encouraged to participate in the central quality surveys.

Mandatory Assignment: Group project

Portfolio

Group project with associated individual reports.

Total assessment of the group work and the individual reports. The groups are considered as units, with the group members' individual reports, work logs and assessments of themselves and each other as a basis for individual grade.

Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:

MED2002 - Project X - 10 credits