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Aw – how come I always miss the fun stuff. I’m away on holiday unfortunately, but I love the idea of an ‘unconference’ for games full of informal fun types of learning and playing and things. Saturday May 3rd then. Will you be going? All the . . . → Read More: Gamecamp with the Guardian
Exciting times – this week Skillset has partnered with Nicktoons to launch a, frankly, brilliant competition for students on our network of industry approved degree courses. Nicktoons, gawd bless em, have agreed to see pitches for 10 second short films from 80 (eighty, thought I needed to spell it out) students. The winning five will see their films given a professional audio mix and then be aired on Nicktoons UK. The overall winner will also be offered an internship at Nickelodeon. I couldn’t be more excited about this one. It’s exciting and fantastic – a whole world of questions and responses – what do you think about your industry, what are your skills needs, and, how old are you? We’re asking all these and more of everyone in the Creative Media sector, there’ll be so much information, I’m sure we’ll struggle to find uses for all . . . → Read More: The Workforce Survey is here… News from Japan. Famitsu reports (no – can’t read Japanese either) that Nintendo is opening its ‘Game Seminar 2008′ for applications. Develop has all the details (in English). How exciting is that – being a lifelong nintendo fanboy who still feels perpetual guilt over not having bought a Wii yet (low ceilings – best not to really) the . . . → Read More: Nintendo will teach you game design…
Real world experience then for the Dare entries. Besides wondering how many will take them up on their offer, I’m interested in how this will develop. Dare has traditionally been a place for students to experiment with new IP before entering the games industry where they wont get that kind of opportunity immediately. Working to a commercial brief puts a different kind of strain on teamworking and idea creation. That said – it’s brilliant experience for life in the real world where what you do on a project like this can be dictated by the financiers rather than by the creatives. It will be interesting to see the students cope with added demands. More details on the brief after the jump. Skillset is now the proud owner of a brand new Facebook Page. It’s another step into the brave new world of the internet for us. It’s worth a look, there’s photos and event news, and you can see who else in the Creative Media Industry is keen . . . → Read More: Join Us On Facebook…
In an interesting thinkpiece on the BBC, Bill Thompson puts out a call for more people to engage with programmers, citing the proliferation of complex PC’s and software as one of the reasons behind a decline in the numbers of people creating new and innovative software. It’s true that in the modern creative industries, there are very few forms of expression that do not require engagement with software of some kind. The sectors we cover are hugely reliant on the tools provided for editing, animating, modelling and so forth, but increasingly it seems people are becoming proficient at utilising computers without really learning what makes them tick. |
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