Welcome to IGAD Jacco Bikker lecturer

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Welcome to IGAD Jacco Bikker - lecturer
Welcome!
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International Game Architecture Design
Welcome!
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Contents
The Game Industry
The Game Developer
The Game Academy
IGAD Course Details
Labour Market
Practical Details
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Industry

• Bigger than Hollywood
• (2004 25 billion, est. 2009 54 billion)
• Small in the Netherlands
• Risky investments
• No such thing as a game fund
• Lack of education

when your best just isnt good enough
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Industry

• Important to government
• Broadening target group
• Rapid technological developments
• Knowledge usable in simulation / education /
  advertising
• And some companies in Breda
• Production Playlogic Game Studios
• Publishers CD Contact Data, Take2 Interactive
• Marked as Game City in Brabant plans

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Industry

• Production process comparable with film
  industry
• Portfolio industry

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Industry
Consumer
Game publisher
Game developer
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Developer
Team leader / Producer
Lead Programmer
Art director
Designer
Sound director
UI Programmer
Character Modeller
Level designer
Music composer
Engine Programmer
Object Modeller
Character designer
Music designer
AI Programmer
Animator
Enemy designer
Sound engineer
Sp. FX-Programmer
Texturer
Scriptwriter
Voice actors
Player Programmer
Lead 2D artist
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Developer
Team leader / Producer
Lead Programmer
Art director
Designer
Sound director
UI Programmer
Character Modeller
Level designer
Music composer
Engine Programmer
Object Modeller
Character designer
Music designer
AI Programmer
Animator
Enemy designer
Sound engineer
Sp. FX-Programmer
Texturer
Scriptwriter
Voice actors
Player Programmer
Lead 2D artist
just because youre necessary doesnt mean youre
important
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Contents
The Game Industry
The Game Developer
The Game Academy
IGAD Course Details
Labour Market
Practical Details
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Visual Artist
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Programmers
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State of the art
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Contents
The Game Industry
The Game Developer
The Game Academy
IGAD Course Details
Labour Market
Practical Details
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IGAD
GAME LAB
Modelling Drawing skills Texturing Animation Progr
amming
Programming Mathematics Physics / AI / 3D Mobile
/ hardware Modelling
Ludology English Game production Audio design
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IGAD

• Educational Vision
• Game Lab
• Game development studio where
• programmers and visual artists
• work together on game creation
• Game Academy Program
• Close connection to the
• International Game Industry
• Lecturers from the international game industry

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Contents
The Game Industry
The Game Developer
The Game Academy
IGAD Course Details
Labour Market
Practical Details
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Contents
The Game Industry
The Game Developer
The Game Academy
IGAD Course Details
Labour Market
Practical Details
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Specifics

• Programmers
• Programming
• C/C
• Performance
• Graphics
• Maths
• Vectors
• Hardware
• GPU
• Console

• Visual Artists
• Modeling
• Anatomy
• Architecture
• Clean data
• Drawing skills
• Animation
• Game specific
• Texturing
• Powers of 2

GAMELAB Portfolio Hardcore games Large
teams Competence development
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Kindergarten?Employability?
IGAD
luck cant last a lifetime unless you die young
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IGAD
Programmers
Programmers

• Alternative Labour Opportunities
• Companies which are involved with Virtual Reality
• Simulations (such as driving simulators or
  applications for the department of defence)
• Audio techniques
• Image recognition
• General ICT jobs

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IGAD
Visual Artists
Visual Artists

• Alternative Labour Opportunities
• Development of user interfaces
• Visualisation companies such as architecture
• Animation studios
• Film- and television productions
• Museums as a designer of educational
  presentations
• Advertising agencies

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Contents
The Game Industry
The Game Developer
The Game Academy
IGAD Course Details
Labour Market
Practical Details
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IGAD

• Fixus 2 x 60 students
• Subscription before May 15th 2007
• at IBG and NHTV
• 50 Selection, intake assessment
• Self assessment
• Application letter CV portfolio
• Assignment
• Interview
• Education in English
• Laptop Software

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