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Career path for the gaming industry?
My fiance is considering a career change to the video game industry. There is very little info about the best education programs available. A four year degree would be too long of a commitment. Can anyone recomend a training program, and then a good place to work?
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- For school, there's Digipen but that's a 4 year committment. There's also Full Sail in Florida (it's advertised in the gaming magazines) and they have a 21 month Bachelor degree program. Other than that, I'd recommend your fiance to write their own games on their own to gain experience or try to find a very small start-up gaming company who might forgo video game experience and may just require computer programming experience instead. Also, there's a big explosion in mobile gaming (cell phone games) so they might want to start there. Try writing a few games for cell phone and they might gete a crack at the industry there. Of course, there's the downside that big videogame companies don't really consider these as real games but you have to start somewhere. Can't really recommend a specific company as they tend to be very small and the industry is pretty new on the scene.
- It depends, 2d or 3d artist... anyway a LOT of tutorials and video tutorials on the internet. You have no idea ;) Anyway, check this out: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhNegk1sHHRcYFAw2.eFVifsy6IX?qid=1006012619568
