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Game Lab 4 - Entertainment Technologies
SPO2120
Current active subject description (last updated 2024/25)

Game Lab 4 - Entertainment Technologies

SPO2120
GameLab is a work simulator aiming to give the students a controlled environment in which to learn how to work together in a development team.
GameLab is a work simulator aiming to give the students a controlled environment in which to learn how to work together in a development team. GameLab should be treated by the students as a normal day at work in a video game production company.
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The candidate ...

Knowledge

  • Has knowledge about working in a project with a defined deadline
  • Has knowledge about working in and organizing work in a team project
  • Knows how the individual parts of a project organization functions as a bigger unit
  • Knows how to develop and pitch ideas, and starting up own companies
  • Is aware of how to research and finance a startup company
  • Has knowledge about different entertainment technologies

Skills

  • Masters the topics she/he has chosen to improve his or hers special competence through the project
  • Masters project management and process development within teams
  • Masters developing and pitching ideas
  • Is able to develop a business plan for funding proposals
  • Is able to use XR technologies to develop entertainment projects

General competence:

  • Can work in organized teams
  • Has experience participating in practical projects
  • Can evaluate their own and others efforts in a team
  • Is able to interact well with external clients
  • Understanding how different entertainment technologies can be used for commercial projects
No tuition fees. Semester fees and cost of course literature apply.
Mandatory

Seminars, team meetings and project work

The work mainly consists of project work.

Additionally - workshops on project management tools and an introduction to business economics in software development projects

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.