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Career Awareness Initiative |
So, what's the Career Awareness Initiative?
In brief, we're helping parents, guidance counselors, and high school students think of games as a serious career path.
While most people are aware of video games as an entertainment product, there exists a general lack of awareness that game development requires highly-educated and specialized skill sets in physics modeling, artificial intelligence, massively-scalable networking infrastructures, digital security, graphic design, 3D animation, project management, and intellectual property law, among others.
Since 2004, the video game industry has surpassed the film industry by gross revenues in the United States. We estimate that there are only 2000 professionals employed in Georgia's video game industry.
With our industry experiencing rapid growth every year, we need to attract more people to work with us. But, we can't just use anyone to make games. We need very bright and talented artists and programmers.
It's generally true that if you're a good enough artist to produce an entertaining game, you'll probably have no problem producing art for other business applications. Similarly, if you can program a video game, you're probably able to program any business application. So, while it might seem at first glance that a game degree is "narrow" in scope, it's actually a very good way to prepare for just about any time of work.
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Please click on our sponsor links at left to get more information about game industry college degrees and careers.
Create a FREE GGDA account to keep in touch with us. Register your account here: http://register.ggda.org.
If you'd like to have a professional video game developer speak to your high school class, please contact:
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Career Awareness Initiative
