The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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This talk explores the experiences and fears of new graduates from post-secondary education in video games as they face an industry notorious for difficult working conditions and barriers to long-term career success. Kenzie Gordon, Project Manager at the University of Alberta, will draw on her extensive interviews with new graduates of game development programs through The First Three Years project (a longitudinal study of their career outcomes) to reveal how graduates approach their entry into the game industry and what preparation is missing in game education.She will then pass the baton to Latinx in Gaming, whose work advocating for and building community amongst Latinx game developers provides a powerful template for what inclusive game development communities could look like, and how educators can help. Their co-founder Cristina Amaya will reflect on challenges faced by Latinx developers, and what opportunities exist to integrate their approach into postsecondary contexts.
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