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Aphra KKeymaster
Omen..
accomodation could be sorted..if you are not too fussy..
flights…that might be asking too much!!
it will be a friday night tho!!
Aphra.
Aphra KKeymasterwill the offer of beer, wine, food and awards be enough to get you all to attend???
Aphra.
Aphra KKeymasterI made it to the pub in Buncrana – turns out there were four birthdays being celebrated of different people – two in Torc…good band on in the pub and a great crowd…someone else will have to give you gossip on what happened later tho……
Aphra.
Aphra KKeymasterand there will be a feature up once that announcement is made…Pavel is on the case..
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Aphra KKeymasterwell Letterkenny MSc should be offered in September if they get through the validation ok..
Yes Carlow is up and running…see Irish Times article last Friday…
haven’t heard too much feedback from students as to what it is like though…Aphra.
Aphra KKeymasterand the games courses like that at NWIFE in Derry offer game specific incubation space to students coming off their courses.
Incubation space is also provided in Abertay for students coming off their courses and after the Dare competition
Aphra.
Aphra KKeymasterHi Rob,
Yes it should be there…I haven’t got around to typing up a list of the topics/courses involved. If you have an electronic copy of what the course entails please do send it on to me…we keep the info. fairly factual..
we did run a feature on the course last summer though…
thanks,
Aphra.
Aphra KKeymasterBig article last Friday on Carlow Games course in the Irish Times. Interview with Joseph Keogh…15 students on the course at the moment…
Also a piece in Develop this month about the new BTEC course in games at the Causeway Institute.
Courses are certainly getting publicity..
Aphra.
Aphra KKeymastercouldn’t walk down the street in Portrush yesterday wind was so strong..had to stay in and look out at the ten foot waves!
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Aphra KKeymasterthe next Digiplay seminar is on the business side of games…
it will be in MArch in Newcastle..
more info here
Aphra.
Aphra KKeymasterJust in case you missed it, we have just posted a story under news about Mistaril, the Finnish company which used to be based in the Digital Hub.
Unfortunately last summer Kai-Peter and Mistaril headed back to Finland…
find out why and what he has been up to….in the news section of gd.ie
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Aphra KKeymasterRonny..
I could bore the pants off you at a shindig explaining the differences between the different competitions…but the six nations is just that..a competition between six nations…England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, France and Italy..the Lions are something else entirely..
Aphra.
Aphra KKeymasterI sent a message to Tony on the night but he seemed to have been missing in action…sorry I missed it but was working my way around the bars in Saarbrucken (Germany) at the time..
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Aphra KKeymasterastroman – from what I know they have a big SFI funded AI research project in UCC and I did hear they are/were interested in games –
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Aphra KKeymasteractually Jamie has written a feature for me on the Carlow games course but is looking for input from students on the course in order to balance it out..if some of them are on this site that is great – can you PM me to see how the course is going from your point of view…
ta
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