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TRAINING NEWS This month: Lionhead Studios and Games Eden
Development powerhouse Lionhead has launched a work experience programme for local students. The Guildford group said it wants to help the British development sector inspire young people to build games for a living. Students from local schools can undertake work experience on-site and try out “all of the six main disciplines of making a game”. Each student will have a personal mentor to work with, Lionhead said. “The video games industry offers a huge variety of career opportunities, but it is very intense and hectic,” said Lionhead producer Jemma Harris.
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“Staff here have been working closely with teachers at Woking Sixth Form College to come up with a program which will showcase the diversity, creativity and excitement of games development,” she added. Lionhead’s partnership with local academic institutions is a key guiding principle of the Livingstone-Hope Review, a government-backed report on how games education can improve. Of the twenty recommendations in the Skills Review, one asks studios to “use video games at school to draw greater numbers of young people into STEM and computer science”. www.lionhead.com
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Industry professionals from studios like Jagex, Sony Computer Entertainment and Frontier Developments will be heading to the east of England early this month to give talks at a three-day games education event in the internationally famous university city of Cambridge. The annual Brains Eden conference, set to run July 9th to 11th, will gather aspiring young game developers along with weathered industry pros to Anglia Ruskin University. The first two-days of the show will be centred on a student game jam – where game prototypes are conceived and built under a punishing 48 hour period – while the final day will be a more laid back
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affair with speaker sessions and roundtable gatherings. Key developers from Ninja Theory, Jagex, Frontier Developments and Sony Computer Entertainment Cambridge Studio will each share their insight and experience, along with representatives of the UK indie development scene. Representitives of the UK development industry will also be debating the threats to and opportunities facing the national sector. Games development students are also invited to submit their games art work to appear in an exhibition with professional studios’ work. www.gameseden.co.uk
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