
Games Design Facilities
School of Creative Industries / Facilities / Games Design Facilities
There are extensive dedicated areas, set up for the Games Design course. These focus on facilities games testing and development as well as opportunities for online gaming and research.
Introducing the Wolverhampton Screen School
Wolverhampton Screen School has state-of-the-art teaching facilities and equipment with the aim of boosting skills in the digital arts and media industries.
Students benefit from production space, an equipment media store, a video studio with movable partitions and a large multipurpose studio. There are also Mac labs, edit suites, staff offices and a production base room.
The industry standard facilities include a green-screen, three-camera TV studio with an adjoining production gallery. There is also a radio studio which reflects the layout of BBC local stations. News readers have access to a second bulletin studio and the technical kit and software that enable the replication of the workflows of national news journalists and the running orders of professional news programmes.
3D Tour
Click on the image above and take a tour around our Computer Games Design, please note the Mattertag hotspots (white circles) – these contain information about specific equipment.
Wolverhampton's First Ever Live Esports Event
The event saw the Le Mans Virtual Series kick off with the iconic circuit – Monza. Wolves GR Esports went toe-to-toe with racing giants including Red Bull Racing, BMW, Ferrari and Porsche in the four-hour endurance race.
The event was hosted at, and livestreamed from, the University of Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre, with hundreds of sim-racing enthusiasts tuning in to see the action as well as a number of them making the trip to the theatre itself to experience it in person.
Facilities include
- Computer labs equipped with both PC and Mac computers
- Industry standard software includes: Adobe Master Collection, 3D Studio Max, Maya, Z-Brush, Unreal Development Kit, Blender, Director
- A portable Motion Capture suite with access to a dedicated area for motion research
- A sound-booth with full recording capabilities