Train to Game course
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I know nothing about them. But a quick google turns up this thread: http://www.gamestm.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&a...
Hard sell, company in a state of flux, £5000 for a lot of free software.
Personally if he wants to learn from home I'd think the OU were a better bet for his £5k
Something like this: http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/... and some hard core programming courses.
Hard sell, company in a state of flux, £5000 for a lot of free software.
Personally if he wants to learn from home I'd think the OU were a better bet for his £5k
Something like this: http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/... and some hard core programming courses.
Edited by Munter on Friday 21st May 19:39
I've worked in the industry, as a programmer you need a degree in maths, physics or a top computer science degree at a push, as an artist you need to or at least did need a degree and a portfolio.
In my opinion without any of those you won't even get a foot in the door (unless you have experience) and unless a course can offer you credits on a top flight game I'd steer clear
In my opinion without any of those you won't even get a foot in the door (unless you have experience) and unless a course can offer you credits on a top flight game I'd steer clear
I will admit I saw one of the adverts for this company a long time ago, and put in my details to show interest in it, and heard nothing for a while then about 3 months later i get a phonecall from them telling about the company, and when they wouldn't give me a positive answer about how much it would all cost, and was trying to organise i time for a "salesman" to come over to discuss further, i knew that this was not legit and proceeded to fob them off, thinking i wouldn't hear from them again
what ensued is what i can call only describe as something short of harasment, i was getting phonecalls almost 2-3 times a day and stupid times of the day, trying to get me to join up to the course, this carried on for almost a month. i ended up ringing up Vodafone and asking them to block calls from that number, after about a week of no phonecalls, i get a phonecall from a different number, and one the other end was another person from Train2game, who proceeded to start a slagging match with me,
all in all a horrible company and I would advise to go that route to anybody, even somebody i didn't like, as one of the links said above, there are better ways to getting the course, if you so wish
what ensued is what i can call only describe as something short of harasment, i was getting phonecalls almost 2-3 times a day and stupid times of the day, trying to get me to join up to the course, this carried on for almost a month. i ended up ringing up Vodafone and asking them to block calls from that number, after about a week of no phonecalls, i get a phonecall from a different number, and one the other end was another person from Train2game, who proceeded to start a slagging match with me,
all in all a horrible company and I would advise to go that route to anybody, even somebody i didn't like, as one of the links said above, there are better ways to getting the course, if you so wish
I used to be in the industry to and cant express enough how important it is to actually ring a couple of games companies and ask THEM what THEY WANT, otherwise you will be wasting your 1000s of pounds.
In terms of graphics and programming, they will want the best who think out of the box. As above, a top notch portfolio will get you more noticed than a qualification on a CV. They will want people who can produce what they are asked to produce.
It can be a very cut throat industry in terms of hiring and firing.
Does your son know exactly what he wants to do? Objectively, what are his talents or potential? If it is programming, top notch C+ skills are a basic starting point. Even within programming there are specialities like AI, physics and networking (more so now).
In terms of graphics and programming, they will want the best who think out of the box. As above, a top notch portfolio will get you more noticed than a qualification on a CV. They will want people who can produce what they are asked to produce.
It can be a very cut throat industry in terms of hiring and firing.
Does your son know exactly what he wants to do? Objectively, what are his talents or potential? If it is programming, top notch C+ skills are a basic starting point. Even within programming there are specialities like AI, physics and networking (more so now).
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