We are ready! Open your doors GDC's expo floor, and let us show off New Zealand's and MDS' amazing talents!
With the last touches on our booth today, we are now ready to welcome hundreds of people to have a taste of New Zealand and the amazing amount of creative talents that our country has to offer.
It's all on in San Francisco this week - GDC, the Game Developers Conference is being held and is the biggest conference in the Games Industry. Anyone who is in the Industry or wants to be part of it meet here, this week in San Fran!
We will be bringing you LIVE our experience of this fantastic event.
Media Design School (MDS) will have a presence at one of the global games industry's hallmark events in late March, with a booth (#928) at the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) in San Francisco from 24-27 March.
Training overseas to become a Game Artist or Game Programmer is a thing from the past. If your passion lies in the prospect of making games for a career, then New Zealand is becoming the next big destination.
MDS graduates had the opportunity to showcase their work by showing their portfolio and reels to keen potential employers and colleagues from the web, design, advertising, 3D and Games Industries.
Affliction, MDS Graduate Diploma of Game Development team game from the 2006 class, has a brand spanking new website with downloads, wallpaper art and other general coolness.
Concept art from Media Design School's Graduate Diploma of Game Development's team project
Gareth Griffiths, a Usability Expert from Wellington Games company Sidhe Interactive, was at MDS on the 15th and 16th of January to share his expertise with the students and give them feedback on their final game project.
MDS Diploma of 3D Computer Animation grads working for the New Zealand arm of independent games company Mere Mortals UK have received high praise from client Ubisoft for their recent in-game cinematic work for the global games giant.
Students from the Game Development Faculty at MDS got personal tutoring from James Everett, game designer at New Zealand’s biggest games studio