Career prospect for game developers

The creation and production of computer games have grown to become a huge industry. There are innumerable job opportunities available for game developers. These interactive entertainment and video games have become an integral part of every contemporary culture, economic growth and employment, whether that is local, national or global. That’s why MAGES Institute of Excellence has come up with game programming classes for children which help them in learning various aspects of game development: game development with Unity, basic illustration, advanced illustration, clay sculpting and digital sculpting for artists. The duration of these courses vary from 40 to 48 hours and help children learn game programming for Windows and iPhone. 

MAGES Institute of Excellence provides the following game programming classes for children:

1. Game Development with Unity: This course helps a learner build the foundation for the game design and development concepts using the Unity game engine. It will take students from the first base of designing a game to the testing and implementation of the game. At the end of this 40 hours course, students will be enabled to build their own game.

2. Basic Illustration: The workshop will train students with a solid foundation in illustration and enable them to produce characters from their imagination, driven by core observational skills and training in the fundamentals of drawing. This course is recommended for media practitioners, students and people with keen interest in illustration. After the completion of this course, the students will have the skills to create scenes with characters and creatures in various environments using Adobe Photoshop and will have knowledge of the illusion of depth and how to relate it to the environment.

3. Advanced Illustration: This 48 hours advanced illustration course will vastly increase participants ability to judge layout skills, composition analysis, colour choices, drawing, storytelling abilities and related artistic skills to create eye-catching works. The participants will work on three assignments to refine their illustration skills:

●     Assignment 1: Book cover for fantasy, romance or thriller story.

●     Assignment 2: Poster for an action, horror or sci-fi film.

●     Assignment 3: Set-up and role illustration for a game.

4. Clay Sculpting: This 45 hours course will introduce the students to the basic concepts underlying clay sculpting. It will help students understand the sculpting process from start to finish. After this course, students will become well versed with the technicalities of sculpting and will be able to create a full figure maquette.

5. Digital Sculpting for Artists: In this 40 hours course, the main focus is on the creation of complex 3D organic models, and 2D and 3D texture for use in animation and video game development. After completion students will have an overall understanding of work with digital sculpting in the 3D program Z-Brush and similar software and will understand how to apply knowledge of character production workflows to create a production-ready asset.

Students will be provided with a participation certificate at the end of each course. These short 40-48 hours classes give students the core knowledge and practice exercises to become skilled, team-orientated, reflexive professional ready to succeed in the sector. Above all, it helps in shaping the career opportunities for children from very beginning.