With me living in Austin, I get to hear (and talk) about game development a lot. If you don’t know, Austin is the MMORPG development capital of the world. (To go along with the Live Music Capital thing.) Well, there are game design graduate degrees, and college courses in development focused on games, but the local Austin Community College is letting developers get started even earlier by offering Game Camp this summer for Middle and High School students.
These camps will run weekly between June 1 and August 14th here in Austin. The list of guest speakers is quite impressive, and there’s a lot to learn. So if you’re interested, check it out at www.gamecamp.org.
Note this is an overview type camp – you’ll get an introduction to all the different parts. The industry as a whole, design fundamentals, Art and Design for games, programming techniques, career overviews, and a good look at what it takes to break into the industry.
