University News Last updated 17 April 2018
Undergraduates on the Two-Year FastTrack Video Games courses were recently invited to a take a 15 minute walk to Codemasters Birmingham where the highly successful and critically acclaimed F1 series is developed, for a tour of the studio and to look under the hood at how big budget, AAA games are developed.
Final year student Harriet Frayling said:
Students got to see members of the development team in a range of roles including; tools programming, gameplay programming, animation, 3D art, design and production. The tour was arranged by Producer, Hugh Pearson, from Codemaster who said:
“The team at Codemasters enjoys seeing the passion from the students and hopes to inspire them to be the next generation of AAA game developers.”
NTI Director, Oliver Williams said of the visit: “Codemasters have hosted our students for a number of years now and they put on a fantastic tour which really shows students the type of careers they can enter once graduating. It is also great to catch up with graduates who are now working at the studio too.”
Harriet told us why the NTI’s links with industry are important to her: