A quick pointer to an interesting piece on Gamasutra today - the 10 Myths About Game Degrees. Dr Andrew Tuson from City University has set out to debunk some of the popularly held views on games degrees, and has some good insights in the main.
However - his argument seems to me to fall down because it […]
Well - invitations are on their way. 1st of July is the date, and if you are an employer on the look out for talented artists and animators then this is definitely the event for you.
Didn’t get an invite?
Head over to www.skillset.org/animation/showcase to register.
Registration is for employers only as the graduates are carefully selected from our range […]
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NESTA: Making Innovation Flourish
Tuesday saw the largest innovation event ever held in the UK descend on the Festival Hall. The Skillset Blog team was there (en masse) to sample proceedings. Despite a slow down in the afternoon, where the ‘expert’ seminars largely left me a bit dissapointed there were some interesting […]
There’s nothing like e-books to get a publishing debate going.
For those not in the know, e-books were hailed in the last millenium as the future of digital publishing… and yet this “revolution” never materialised. Why? For several reasons. From the lack of a satisfactory device with which to read them, to functionality that didn’t wholly fulfill reader demands.
The […]
All going swimmingly by all accounts, around 50 students through the doors and through the first round of pitching. We’ve had overwhelmingly positive feedback from the students with all but one indicating they enjoyed the day!
The main learning takeaways for students seem to be that they recognise the need to always have your audience in […]
At last week’s Periodical Publishers Association Magazines 2008 conference, the revered/reviled (delete as appropriate) former Blair spin-doctor, Derek Draper, took part in a session named “The Personality of the Perfect Editor: What Can Psychology Tell Us?”
He took the delegates through a psychometric profiling test (supplied courtesy of Psychologies Magazine) and much fun was had by all, […]