Media Design School Visit - By Martin

On Wednesday the 6th of August the Fazeclan group had visited the Media Design School on 92 Albert Street, Auckland Central City. 

Once we arrived at the front reception we met Ms Analiese Jackson, the chief executive in Marketing and Design, and Mr Mike Porter, professional gamer and programmer.
We spent some time observing the ornaments such as:

1) A limited collector's edition of The Last of Us, exclusive to PS3 and remastered for the PS4
2) The world's first-ever virtual-reality gaming experience, the legendary Oculus Rift
3) The classic chrome gun from critically- acclaimed game of the year, Portal 2

They guided to Room 18, the Boarding Room, and taught us lots about gaming and it's educational benefits. With games like:

1) Assassin's Creed - Teaches about history, since the game is based on true historic events, and that's how Mr Porter's son was interested in the Crusades (1191 - 1257)

2) Call of Duty/ Battlefield - Teaches Real-time team tactics and strategy, teamwork is the vital key to victory in the game

Mr Porter had told us about the Minecraft Creativity Awards, hosted by Media Design School, the aim was to find aspiring kids who had a passion for Minecraft, and they would had to build a structure/ building from New Zealand, for instance, a student had built Auckland Museum, and won an award for creativity.

Mr Porter had  also taught us how an aspiring Minecrafter had built a 3D- imported, plugin legitimate computer, built with it's own GPU, enabling it to calculate real-time numbers, in game!

After Mr Porter's period, Ms Jackson had showed us around the building, including students programming games, and the PC Gaming room, built for programming and gaming.

We were sad to leave but overall we had a great time with the team.

Check out the awesome lecturers and programmers at: http://www.mediadesignschool.com/courses/game-art-programming/tutors/