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3 februari 2011, Malmö
Japansk speljättepublicerar VisualDreams spel – Herman The Hermit
Tre studenter på The Game Assembly i Malmö har startat eget spelföretag, VisualDreams. Studenterna har nu blivit kontaktade av självaste Capcom Mobile , en japansk speljätte, som nu kommer att publicera deras spel Herman the Hermit till iPhone, iPad och iTouch i februari.
De tre studenterna, David Marquardt, Harald Johansson och Kristofer Boman, startade sin utbildning på The Game Assembly i Malmö 2008 och har under utbildningens gång producerat åtta spelprojekt i skolans regi.
“Som spelprogrammerare har vi under vår skoltid slitit hårt under vår lärare Niklas Hanssons handledning. Det har varit många långa nätter men när man ser tillbaka har det varit värt varenda droppe svett. Att Capcom hörde av sig till oss var verkligen en bekräftelse på att det stämmer.” säger Kristofer Boman, och Harald Johansson instämmer.
David Marquardt som är 3D-grafiker säger “Att vi verkligen har gjort åtta spelprojekt ihop på skolan har fått oss att inse att spelutveckling verkligen är ett samarbete där alla har ett ansvar för slutresultatet.”
The Game Assembly i Malmö har sedan 2008 utbildat och utbildar 120 spelgrafiker i 3D och spelprogrammerare i C++ och i augusti 2011 har de även fått tillstånd från Yrkeshögskolemyndigheten att utbilda Leveldesigners.
Ann-Sofie Sydow som är programansvarig på The Game Assembly säger “ – Det är magiskt att se dessa blivande spelutvecklare komma närmare sitt drömjobb. Visst har vi högt tempo och höga krav på våra studenter men vi tror på dem och att de kommer att lyckas…det är ju Kristofer, David och Harald ett bevis på.”
De tre snart nyexaminerade spelstudenterna ska i februari åka till Mobile Worlds Congress i Barcelona, så om det är någon som vill träffa dom i verkligheten så kan man åka dit eller bara besöka dem i Norrköping.
http://www.visualdreams.se/2011/02/breaking-news/
http://www.capcommobile.com/product.php?id=63
http://www.thegameassembly.com
The Game Assembly är en Yrkeshögskola i Malmö som utbildar spelgrafiker, leveldesigners och spelprogrammerare. The Game Assembly ägs av Hermods som bedrivit utbildningar sedan 1893. The Game Assembly har lärare med spelutvecklarbakgrund, studenterna gör spel hela tiden samt att vi har god kontakt med spelbranschen.
http://www.hermods.se
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The Game Assembly(TGA) is an 2,5 year long Advanced Vocational Education (Yrkeshögskola in Swedish).
TGA started 2008 with two courses; Game Asrt and Game Programming, and 2011 Yrkeshögskolemyndigheten granted us to start the course Level Design.
TGA is a game production education giving the students 550 YH-points. One third of the education is spent at a workplace (Lärande i arbete, LiA). At The Game Assembly the LiA is placed in the last period of the education. This is a direct request from the Swedish games industry since game developing games is such a complicated and demanding process.
We want applications from men and women that have determination, drive, dedication, a passion for games and talent for what he or she wants to do, game art, level design or game programming.
The industry The Game Assembly is collaborating with, and is educating people for, is the games industry. Sweden has a long tradition of game development and is highly regarded internationally with acclaimed titles. To maintain the high quality in the Swedish games there is a need for educations taking care of the next generations game developers, and The Game Assemblys goal is to provide the industry with the very best together with the industries help and support.
In 2010 our first students went out on their internship (Lärande I Arbete). They ended up in six countries. The demand for our students were bigger than we could supply.
The Game Assembly’s curriculum´s, Game art, Level Design and Game programming, is written by the Swedish games industry and we continously have a dialogue about how to be in the frontier of games.
The Game Assembly is an Advanced Vocational Education and Training (AVET) in Swedish it is called Yrkeshögskola (YH).
Read more about Yrkeshögskola at http://www.yhmyndigheten.se/ .
The Game Assembly is owned by Hermods AB, a well known Swedish educational institution since 1898. Read more about Hermods AB at www.hermods.se.
Our Head Teacher in Game Programming is Niklas Hansson and our Head Teacher in Game Art is Kostas Gialitakis.
Niklas Hansson formally worked at Ubisoft Massive as the Lead Programmer on World in Conflict for 11 years. Niklas wrote the curriculum and we are fortunate to have him running it as well.
Kostas Gialitakis is a former teacher at School of Future Entertainment and has worked at Sony Ericson. The Game Assembly is a new education and Kostas on board we feel confident that we’ll have good quality in our education.
Ann-Sofie Sydow is responible for the The Game Assembly-project. Since she also is worikng for the Association of Swedish Game Developers she has a solid network of Swedish and Interantional Games Industry.
Danny Antivalidis is our other game art teacher with a focus on 2D, concept art and 3D. Danny has been working at Upside studios and as a freelance game artist. Danny has many years of art school in his background.
Martin Hammarbrink is our second game programming teacher. He´s been working at both Ubisoft Massive end The Astonishing Tribe here in Malmö.
We are glad to have such experienced teachers when it comes to game developing and know that their knowledge in the processes of making is essential to The Game Assembly.
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