We focus on advancing the tools, techniques and methods that will be used to build the next generation of games and related technologies.
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Themes include, but are not restricted to, serious games, augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence and data analytics in games, procedural content generation, interactive storytelling, collaborative virtual environments and experimental game design.
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We work closely with the undergrad students of the Bachelor of Games Development to bring cutting edge games education, broaden the scope of Australian games research, highlight the work of our students and academics, and grow the game design and development community of UTS.
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Last September, a group of UTS Game Development students had the opportunity to showcase their semester projects at the 2023 POWERHOSE LATE: GAMING event.
This event is aimed at bringing together the games community as well as celebrating the breadth of Australian game innovation through live performances, local game developer showcases, tabletop arenas and immersive game experiences.
The participating games were:
As a part of Tech Fest, UTS Careers hosted four 'Your career in' industry panel events focused on software engineering, robotics, AI and games development. We had 23 industry professionals, the majority of whom were also UTS Alumni, participate as panellists and share their stories, experience and advice with our students.
Thanks Joshua, Claudia, Ailin, Aaron, Harry, Sebastian, George, Jake, for taking time off from work to come to UTS and share their journeys with our aspiring Game Dev students.
Last June, the UTS Games Studio had the opportunity to participate in the second iteration of the UTS Tech Festival, a 2-week event that aims at bringing together current students, academics, industry partners and like-minded tech enthusiasts to take part in an array of activities including hackathons, workshops, industry panels and student showcases.
This year, we joined forces with our student societies (Playmakers and the Gamers Guild) and our industry partners (from Dolby, NVIDIA) to create a unique program full of exciting and diverse game events.
Last June, 60+ of our top-performing students worked very hard on a one-of-a-kind design challenge: create a game where player-player communication is the main mechanic. All in only 48 hours.
To accomplish this, our industry partners from Dolby Laboratories taught us the most advanced features in their latest Dolby.io plugin for Unity.
10 student groups from 6+ very diverse disciplines within the university (IT, Engineering, Music and Sound Design, Games Dev, Computer Science, etc) have competed for 4 unique award categories.
It is my great pleasure to announce that the winners of the competition are:
Collin Fu (1st Place) and Elijah Saiz-Smith (2nd Place)
They get to take home a MSI Desktop Computer and a MSI Gaming Monitor, that MSI has kindly and generously donated for this wonderful event. (Thanks MSI)
Also, special thanks to Luc Holland and Alexander Minton and their collaborators from the UTS Gamers Guild for all your efforts and dedication to make this such an EPIC event.
This gaming competition was part of the 2023 UTS Tech Festival, a 2-week event that brings current and prospective UTS students, academics and industry together to foster learning, inspiration, share ideas and promote innovation!
