Game Art Design at De Montfort 2012

Hi guys, second year student at this course here. (:

The course has dedicated labs with computers for you to use, though you might want to look into getting a desktop or high end laptop so that you can do work at home as well.

No rush though. When I started this course I only bought a laptop abouts halfway trough the first term and came out fine, so if you bide your time and see what you need then no worries.

If you've questions, don't be afraid to ask! I know a few of us current students are lurking this thread and will be happy to answer questions and put nerves to ease, we are a pretty friendly bunch really.

We don't have time to play games *cough*

Honestly, you'll get people playing everything from Final Fantasy to Counterstrike to The Sims. It's very diverse. As is the choice of console.

I just bought my daughter a laptop for uni. It's a higher spec than she'd ordinarily need as although she won't be playing games on it, it seemed to make sense to have one that would handle the graphics software such that she can hopefully use it here at home. It should last her three years so that I won't have to cough up again during that time (that's the hope, anyway).

It's the Dell Inspiron 17R SE, with an i7, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD and a 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 650M. With the currently available 11% discount this works out at around £720, base price.

Of course, you'd get away with much less if you weren't bothered about running some higher spec graphics intensive programs on it.