Master’s programme

Game and Media Technology

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General Information:

Gaming and multimedia are booming industry

Increased use of gaming as educational tool

International English taught research master, unique in Europe

Leads to a Master of Science (MSc) degree

Full time, two years

About 40-50 students per year

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Game and Media Technology in Utrecht:

Four focus areas:- Interaction- Graphics and Modelling- Pattern recognition- Motion

Excellent teaching staff High-quality facilities like a motion capture lab and a game lab Cooperation with the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific

Research (TNO), and with the Utrecht School of the Arts Our GMT department is a national and international focal point for

research in Game Technology

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Example research questions:

How to simulate the behavior of a crowd of virtual characters in realistic ways? How to control a game by just using your brain? How to reconstruct a 3D world from images? How to find a desired piece of music in a large database, based on melodic

features?

Admission requirements:

Applicants must hold one of the following:A BSc in Computer Science A BSc in MathematicsA BSc in Information Science

In addition:Students from 985 UniversityA good knowledge of English (IELTS min 6.5 or TOEFL min 93)

Admission: solid basic knowledge of computer science and logic the ability to analyze and model computer science problems the ability to communicate facts and findings verbally and in writing, also using information and communication technology and

audio-visual means the ability to make a computer program of reasonable complexity and size, in an object oriented programming language such as

Java or C++; knowledge of data structures, algorithms and related concepts of reasonable complexity, such as sorting algorithms, O(..)-notation,

balanced binary search trees, etc.; knowledge of basic computer-graphics techniques;

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Programme structure

First year: At least 6 dedicated courses Deficiency courses Selection of lectures Seminars

Second year: Small Project Thesis Project Seminars

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Courses

Current courses Computer Animation Motion and Manipulation Advanced Graphics Geometric Algorithms Game Physics Multimodal Interaction Multimedia Retrieval Computer Vision Path Planning Pattern Recognition Games and Agents Seminars (Colloquium)

Small Project

Individual project or in a small group 15 ECTS Different possibilities:

To pose and answer research questions in game or media technology by experimentation

To develop, together with art students, a game based on technological innovation

Master Thesis

Large, full-time, individual research project At the department or as an internship 42 ECTS (~ 7 months full-time) Closely supervised by one of our staff members Projects are linked to our research activities

Example Thesis Projects

Simulating and visualizing the behavior of crowds of pedestrians

Example Thesis Projects

Automatically computing animations of people falling, based on biomechanical models

Example Thesis Projects

3D building generation from height data and areal photographs

Internship at Vicrea, Amersfoort

Example Thesis Projects

Tracking and fitting 3D body models using multiple cameras

Extracurricular Activities

Many students are active outside their studies DGDARC (www.dgdarc.com) is our student game development club

Joint game projects Symposia, lectures, excursions

Dutch Game Garden (www.dutchgamegarden.nl) is an incubator for new game companies Meetings Game Jams Advise and support for new companies

After Your Graduation

Percentage of recent graduates having a job: 97% Average search time for first job: 2 months Job types

Developing new technologies in game companies Software development at innovative multi-media companies Academic research (PhD positions) Research in R&D departments of large companies (e.g. Philips) Creating a start-up company in game or media technology

More information

See website www.uu.nl/masters

Also for our other master’s programmes:-Artificial Intelligence-Business informatics-Computing science