Maths love

It’s really a crying shame that more people don’t love maths.  If you thinking I’m talking crazy right now, or are at all dubious, it’s because what you haven’t been shown what maths really is.  What you were taught at school was almost certainly awful.  There’s no better way to illustrate than Paul Lockhart’s analogy [...]

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Dare to be Digital 2008

I had the fortune today of spending a day as a technical consultant to the Dundee teams in Dare to be Digital 2008 – a day that definitely exceeded my expectations   Before I say any more, I have to get this off my chest – wow, these guys have done some amazing stuff [...]

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How to get a job at Realtime Worlds (1)

Before I get going, you might wonder why I’d want to help you with this, particularly as I have no clue who you are. Perhaps I’m incredibly altruistic. Well, maybe sometimes, but today I’m just feeling selfish. Here’s why: I hire people for RTW, and being a hiring manager really, really sucks [...]

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Game degrees: possible future directions

If the game degree bubble does burst, what might happen then? Presumably the weakest courses, who were just tagging along to start with, would be the first to go. Perhaps they’d find a new trend to latch onto. But there’s certainly room for a smaller number of stronger courses to remain – [...]

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The games degree bubble

If modern game development is growing fast, and becoming increasingly challenging, it’s obvious that we need to hire quite a few graduates, and they need to be the best and brightest, capable of solving really tough problems, with the people skills to work in large teams.

In recent years, a number of universities spotted this trend [...]

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