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Course Catalogue WS 2024/25

ENGINE ROOM

Type:
Specialist seminar
Semester:
WS 25/26
Target group
Main course / Diploma 2
Max participants:
10
Requirement

Seminarsprache: Englisch und Deutsch

Anmeldung bei: xr@khm.de

Dates - place & time

TypStartEndDayTurnusfrom-toLocation
29.10.2528.01.26MittwochWöchentlich16:00 - 18:00Filzengraben 2, CG-Lab
Typ
Start29.10.25
End28.01.26
DayMittwoch
TurnusWöchentlich
from-to16:00 - 18:00
LocationFilzengraben 2, CG-Lab

Seminar description

The Engine Room is a specialised seminar for students interested in using Unreal Engine 5 for their projects, as well as for anyone using 3D software at an intermediate or advanced level. With the rise of real-time computer graphics and game-related tools, this seminar offers a weekly exchange for discussing ongoing developments in the field, as well as how shifts in commercial pipelines influence not only media art practices and aesthetics but also the demand for resource extraction and the resulting harm to the real-world environment caused by the creation and experience of virtual environments. The sessions consist of small workshops and presentations on advanced and intermediate techniques. You will explore playing, experimenting, implementing, building, landscaping, soundscaping, simulating, animating, node-based programming, and developing game engine-based artworks. Along with tutorials and discussions about technical approaches and methods, there will be opportunities to discuss the economic, social, and cultural aspects of gaming and the possibilities of imagining worlds.

A basic knowledge of the fundamentals of 3D is recommended. This seminar is ideal for students who have completed GLS 3D I and II. For questions about the introduction to specific computer graphics software, please visit the CG Lab and Engine Room wikis (https://exmediawiki.khm.de/index.php/) for beginner tutorials and documentation.


Recommended literature, games, texts, interactive tools:


Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene, Tsing et al., 2021 

(Interactive atlas: https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/


The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Le Guin et al., 2019


Futures of Games and Game Studies, Eludamos, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2023 

(https://eludamos.org/index.php/eludamos/issue/view/771/105)   


Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World, Marijam Did, 2024


The Beginner’s Guide, Davey Wreden, 2015


The Persistence of Code in Game Engine Culture, Eric Freedman, 2020

Student office

Student Office

Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Claudia Warnecke

Heumarkt 14, 50667 Köln

+49 221 20189 - 194 /119 / 187 / 249
studoffice@khm.de


Opening hours:   Mondays + Tuesdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. + Thursdays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

For enquiries or appointments, please call us, Mon - Thu 9.30 to 1 p.m., or send us an e-mail.


Summer semester 2025

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Apr. 14, 2025 until Jul. 25, 2025


Winter semester 2025/26

Lecture period:
​​​​​​​Oct. 20, 2025 until Feb. 13, 2026

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