Introduction to the Game Industry

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A course for those who want to understand the industry and choose a gamdev – profession.

In recent years, the video game industry has been growing at an astonishing rate – over the past few years, it has grown by more than 20% a year (if you count the number of people employed in it). A huge number of gaming companies with worldwide reputation – Wargaming, Ubisoft, Playrix, 4A Games, Plarium and dozens of others.

Unfortunately, for many in our country the game industry is still a mystery – both in terms of business and in terms of employment. This is the situation our course is going to correct.

Our Course

Our Introduction to Gaming course gives you an in-depth look at how the games industry works, how the production process is built, who is involved in it and how games make money.

Our Introduction to Game Industry course has several layers of content and is useful for different groups of people, both those who are planning to start their career in game industry as employees or developers and those who are interested in game development as business projects.

Personal communication with nine tutors – all of them are well-known personalities and specialists with huge experience – will help you not only to choose a profession in the industry or understand how to make business in it, but also to get a lot of insides, latest news and useful stories of game industry.

In our course you will learn:

  • How the game industry works;
  • How the process of producing video games – mobile, console, PC, and cross-platform – goes from the birth of a game idea to release and even beyond;
  • Which games are worth developing to make millions and billions of dollars;
  • What professions are now in demand in the game industry;
  • How to get the necessary experience and become a professional game developer;
  • Which game companies are realistic to get a job for in the country, and how to get a job abroad;
  • How to organize your own game development studio;

This course will be useful for those who:

  • Chooses a specialty to enter or courses to study – and wants to understand what will help him to get a job in gamedev;
  • Loves playing video games and wants to create them;
  • Wants to work in the video game industry and wants to understand how things work;
  • Dreams of making games, but has not yet decided on a major;
  • Wants to fully understand the technological process of game production;
  • Thinking about starting a video game development business.

The course consists of 18 lectures. The course duration is 9 weeks.