[game_edu] Unity Workshop Curriculum?

[Tom Dowd]

When we started our current year-long senior capstone class last fall our
seniors petitioned that we use Unity 3.0 (which had just been released)
instead of the current engine we'd been supporting. I had them do a risk
analysis on the engine change to convince me, and they did. They ued the
Noesis courseware and it got them up to speed in no time at all.

 

Starting next fall, we'll be using Unity as our primary platform and using
the Noesis courseware in lieu of textbooks. The students pay for their own
subscription, which is $15 a month for four months, which we will ask them
to do instead of purchasing a game-engine focused textbook. The seats for
Unity Pro throuh NI are at the same discount as through Unity itself. 

 

I'll actually be talking about our experience with the Noesis courseware
during one of their preentations in the Unity booth at the Game Developers
Conference in a few weeks.

 

TomD

 

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Tom Dowd
Assistant Professor/Game Development Coordinator
Columbia College Chicago
Interactive Arts and Media/Game Design Major
916 South Wabash Avenue, room 137
Chicago IL, 60605
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PH: 312.369.7114

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From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf
Of Ali Arya
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:56 AM
To: 'IGDA Game Education Listserv'
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Unity Workshop Curriculum?

 

Hi Bill,

 

Thanx for sharing the information.

 

I used Unity in my game design course last fall in combination with XNA, and
I'm planning to upgrade to Unity Pro and have more focus on that instead of
XNA for fall 2011. Your experience will be greatly helpful to me. I will
look into Noesis Interactive. The educational discount I could get from
unity was 80% for more than 20 licenses. Were you able to get something
better through N.I.? Yearly subscription for D3 itself is 180 but I assume
that's individual.

 

Best,

Ali Arya

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