Australians loved video games with more
than 70 percent of Australians regularly playing video games the gaming industry
is now worth almost 3 billion in Australia alone Melbourne is a kind of
hub of video games and creative digital industries in Australia and the region
game designers and creators come to Melbourne to work in industry from all
around the country and all around the world are mighty offers a wide range of
programs in games and interactive media whether you're interested in an advanced
diploma bachelor's degree or a master's program our students learn in
world-class facilities learning not only how to make games but also how to create
an immersive world and memorable gaming experiences so I grew up in Tasmania and
at the end of college I was looking for a way to get into the games industry
everyone I asked was talking about the community in Melbourne and so I decided
to come up here and study at RMIT because they offer opportunities to
explore all the different areas of game design even though almost half of
Australia's game players are women games are often perceived as a male-dominated
field but the numbers are changing the Melbourne gaming community and RMIT
keeps a strong focus on gender diversity with women making up half our
enrollments I'm proud of the gender diversity at RMIT and I think I've seen
it actually make changes to the global market and industry I was practicing as
an illustrator but I was drawing mostly using a digital tablet and Photoshop and
I went and had a look at I on my T's art school and it didn't quite look right
for me so I decided to go and have a look at the games lab and everything was
perfect the software was up to date with what I was using all of the art around
the studios was exactly the sort of work that I wanted to be doing and everybody
who I was talking to at the open day was very friendly and welcoming so I jumped
right in [Music]
so that's like a months ago I started working here at a geeks I'm a QA
specialist which is Quality Assurance making sure that the game is working
basically I look at the builds that we are releasing for our game on malaria I
make sure that they are all up to speed they are functioning
I also track any bugs that come through a game is never just a game it's a
collaboration a combination of digital media animation computer programming
design and storytelling these skills you learn studying games and interactive
media at RMIT open a world of possibilities beyond and surrounding the
games industry you might not end up at a games production company you could also
join a startup a boutique design firm or even join the ranks of RMIT graduates
who have become highly successful independent entrepreneurs the MIT course
has really helped me get to where I am today just through the really eclectic
group of people that have come to the games course so the group came together
in the final year again we were all working on a game together but what was
really great about that is because we all kind of clicked during uni amends
that we had a really great working relationship which we could then
continue on outside of that and since then we've developed a company which is
orange oily and even though that wasn't necessarily what we set out to do it's
this really great thing that has been so yeah Sun up to point her with my
friend just to tangelo a couple years ago so we actually work on small to
medium scale like really polished digital design projects we've been
fortunate enough to work with the National Gallery of Victoria doing
virtual reality work which is really really cool at the moment we're actually
working for mercedes-benz doing various sort of like small design projects
particularly with augmented reality well which is really exciting
chose RMIT because they seem to have a focus on teaching ideas particularly
within the games program MIT really worked for me because I really
facilitated this idea of just working with your ideas and actually expanding
upon those ideas [Music]