The other day, Wargaming announced the launch of Wargaming Academy, a free educational project designed to introduce students to the peculiarities of the gaming industry.
The project is an initiative of Wargaming Saint Petersburg (formerly Lesta Studio), which recently released World of Warships from the stocks. It will be held in St. Petersburg just by the authors of the latter.
The project program will include lectures on:
- the structure of the game project;
- prototyping;
- game design;
- UI&UX;
- development platforms;
- programming languages;
- content;
- testing;
- marketing and much more.
The project also involves a practical part in which students will work on a game project.
Enrollment in the Wargaming Academy will be held on a competitive basis in two stages. The first involves writing a test assignment (essay), the second – a personal interview.
You can get a test task by sending an application to this address with an indication in the subject line “I am interested in the Wargaming Academy project”. It will be accepted until October 19 inclusive.
The program is primarily aimed at students and graduates of St. Petersburg universities in the specialties “information and computer technology”, “applied mathematics”, “engineering graphics and design” and many other related disciplines.
As Svyatoslav Torik, who recently moved from Creative Mobile to Wargaming to the post of Product Vision Expert, noted in his Twitter feed, this “announcement is interesting in light of the recent post of the “headhunter of All Russia” Vladimirskaya about the fact that a personnel crisis is brewing in rusgeimdev. There are two points: firstly, the market has turned brutally red. Developing games is not as profitable as it was five years ago. Salaries are growing slowly. Secondly, no one went to gamedev before for big bucks, and now I doubt that the Scrim School will recruit students for next year. And if earlier only cool IT companies like Yandex took patronage of technical students, now game dev is forced to do it. Conclusion? If you wanted to get into game dev, then wait a bit, and it will be even easier to do it (but salaries will still grow slowly).”