ITI NEWSLETTER
ITI Articles
Game industry relationship bolsters student experience
Friday March 28, 2008
Auckland’s Media Design School (MDS), New Zealand’s only provider of high-level specialist Game Development courses, is pleased to announce an ongoing relationship with US cross-platform middleware solution provider Emergent that will provide significant benefits for its gaming students. As a recently signed member of the Emergent Academic Program, MDS’s Game Development department has been given access to Emergent’s Industry-Standard Gamebryro Middleware.
“Gamebryo is the premiere middleware solution, used by AAA studios around the world and the game runtime engine of choice for hundreds of games in multiple genres. It supports game development on Windows, GameCube, Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, and Xbox 360, says Brendan Burns, Course Leader of the MDS Graduate Diploma in Game Development.
“It is the backbone behind Bethesda Softworks’ Oblivion and Fallout 3, Firaxis’ Civilization IV and countless other AAA titles. Having Gamebryo for use on our Graduate Diploma of Game Development will allow MDS students an unprecedented experience. This is a great opportunity for MDS students to develop their programming and/or art skills, empowering their CV with much sought-after skills,” Burns continues. “We can not thank Emergent enough!”
The MDS-Emergent relationship will help open doors for Game Development graduates to employment both domestically and internationally, as more and more studios adopt the Gamebryo toolchain. In addition to this latest development, the MDS Game Development department has also recently secured top deals with both Sony and Nintendo giving Kiwi students access to cutting-edge, industry-standard game development kits for both Sony PSP and Nintendo GameCube consoles.
“Gamebryo is the premiere middleware solution, used by AAA studios around the world and the game runtime engine of choice for hundreds of games in multiple genres. It supports game development on Windows, GameCube, Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, and Xbox 360, says Brendan Burns, Course Leader of the MDS Graduate Diploma in Game Development.
“It is the backbone behind Bethesda Softworks’ Oblivion and Fallout 3, Firaxis’ Civilization IV and countless other AAA titles. Having Gamebryo for use on our Graduate Diploma of Game Development will allow MDS students an unprecedented experience. This is a great opportunity for MDS students to develop their programming and/or art skills, empowering their CV with much sought-after skills,” Burns continues. “We can not thank Emergent enough!”
The MDS-Emergent relationship will help open doors for Game Development graduates to employment both domestically and internationally, as more and more studios adopt the Gamebryo toolchain. In addition to this latest development, the MDS Game Development department has also recently secured top deals with both Sony and Nintendo giving Kiwi students access to cutting-edge, industry-standard game development kits for both Sony PSP and Nintendo GameCube consoles.