Providing the skills required for innovative mobilegame development using industry/academic partnerships

dc.creator	Reuben Edwards
dc.creator	Paul Coulton
dc.date	2006-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:46:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:46:58Z
dc.identifier	1473-7507
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/a59a37c69ddb4f769d40492eab73addc
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/23627
dc.description	Mobile game development is seen as an area likely to exhibit increasing influence on the structure of the games industry although many current pc/console game developers are struggling to adapt their existing practices to this new medium. This is due to both the physical restrictions of the mobile phone and the mobile network as a development environment and the very different demographic of mobile gamer. They are generally ignoring the inherent features of mobility, almost universal connectivity, context, location, and proximity available on mobile phones and thus the possibilities of creating new game genres. Academia is well-placed to teach the skills required to produce the innovation in mobile games development through burgeoning research in pervasive and mobile computing. However, they must also overcome the prejudices of the game industry which has often criticised academic games courses for failing to give students a true insight into its day to day operation of the industry and in particular the commercial pressures of working to budgets and timescales. In this paper we describe the structure around out MSc in Mobile Game design and M-Commerce Systems which encourages innovation and entrepreneurship within an academic environment by employing an industrial approach to academic game development through collaborative partnerships with industry and the provision of a direct route to market.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Higher Education Academy Subject Network for Information & Computer Sciences
dc.relation	http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol5iss3/edwardscoulton.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1473-7507
dc.source	ITALICS, Vol 5, Iss 3 (2006)
dc.subject	Mobile games education
dc.subject	Symbian
dc.subject	J2ME
dc.subject	Flash Lite
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Providing the skills required for innovative mobilegame development using industry/academic partnerships
dc.type	article