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Ubisoft and Quebec to Create GameDev Courses
Ubisoft and the Canadian government are coordinating to create a game development university on the scenic Ubisoft campus, reports Gamespot. Marking continued cooperation between Ubisoft and the Quebecois government, the new 'university' would be in direct competition with EA's similar program set in California. From the article: "Ubisoft Campus students will receive degrees accredited by Québec's Ministry of Education. For undergraduates, each study program will be 45 weeks long, divided into three 15-week terms. The school will also offer master's programs in computer science and software engineering, with added courses in digital imaging and electronics."
If this is aimed at kids in high school that have little or know technical knowledge, how far is this really going to get them? I mean 45 weeks is not exactly a lot of time to learn coding for performance and reliability. I don't think grads with this "degree" are going to be snatched up the day they graduate by big game producers.
...for those Students that the boom in video games will continue. right now, big titles make more money then most big hollywood flicks (compare a well-sold ego-shooter to a movie like "pirates of the carribean"), but there once was a time where there was a huge downturn in that industry in the early 80's,
I always doubted my math and physics professors in school. But they could come up with arguments to back up their claims. And when they showed me the facts, I accepted their teaching as superior. How can I accept a game design professor's ideas when I disagree fundamentally on what I think is fun?
God spoke to me.
I'm referring to this line: "scenic Ubisoft campus".
I've been to Ubisoft's offices in Montreal to apply for a job. They don't have a campus. They only have one floor in a run-down multi-floor building in Old Montreal (Semi-downtown). There IS no campus...
Because learning languages is good for you, French especially, in light of the high proportion of galicisms in English. There must be a reason why private _French-immersion_ schools are popping up all over the country, especially in regions with next to no native francophones. We, Canadians, are lucky enough that native speakers of both languages usually aren't too far, yet people on both sides of the issue find reasons to complain about having to learn more than one language. Your own post gives a good reason: it'll help you save/make money (Imagine that, 70% [yeah, right] of a budget that ultimately only goes to bilingual French-English workers).
Americans are often described as closed-minded imperialists. Please don't make it true of yourself; study languages, cultures, history, etc... Not because you need to, but because it'll help you get more out of life and become a better person.
- Second generation immigrant, grew up in a suburb of Québec City, now at U de Montréal, where he frequently finds himself advocating bilingualism to strict francophones.
Try Corewar @ www.koth.org - rec.games.corewar
The current government just chopped 103 M$ in the student
loan program an now they take that money from public education
and give it to the private sector. Free access to public
education is in danger here. I fear that the next generation
will leave many brilliant people to sell burgers because they
couldn't afford to go to the state sponsored private
universities.
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