Bryan Duggan
Dr Bryan Duggan teaches @ TU Dublin. He has been teaching game development for over 20 years and has used Godot since 2023. He is the founder of Godó Gaedhleach - The Irish Godot Users Group with over 150 members from across Ireland, and is a Board member of Gamecraft Foundation who has been running game jams for 15 years.
Session
TU Dublin is Ireland's largest University with over 30K students across 5 campuses. Dr Bryan Duggan teaches Creative Coding, Computational Arts, eXtended Reality and Autonomous Agents @ TU Dublin. They have been teaching Game Development for over 20 years and have been teaching with Godot since Version 3.4. In this talk Bryan will describe how Godot is used across modules in Computer Science and Game Design to teach students transferable digital skills through creative applications in games, music XR, AI, robotics and art. Inspired by Dr Randy Paush's "Head Fake", students create and perform with musical instruments, make award winning games, develop XR projects to promote sustainability, create holographic artificial life forms, generative art and many other wonders using Godot as the foundational technology. Godot is the great enabler as it runs well on low powered student laptops, is easy to use on locked down lab computers and is fast, powerful and versatile - enabling students to enter "flow state" while they learn, and work on projects. Godot disolves boundaries between "learning" and "doing"; and between "imagining" and "executing". In this talk, Bryan will showcase a selection of the hundreds of student projects created in TU Dublin and present and update from Godó Gaedhleach, the Irish Godot User Group - a student led group which hosted it's first IRL meeting in Dublin in February.