Nisute Presents: Game programming essentials

Today I get to be the guy to proudly present to you a special event that we have been working on here at nisute. With our unique look at the gaming industry, and all of the people we meet, we often hear our members and outsiders express their interrests in pursuing a career in game development or media. Interestingly, they all come to us with the same question, and so we’ve decided to set up an event to cater to part of this question: is making videogames something for me, and what does it take?At this point we have the knowledge for organizing a game programming essentials course in-house, and so that’s exactly what we’ve set up. For us, the goal of this 2-hour pilot-course is to see if there is enough interest from people to warrant organizing more sessions, and if we can arrange some guest speakers on various topics.

So what will we be covering?

The aim of the first session is to quickly introduce you to the very basics of programming, focussing solely on the things that you really need for programming a simple game using industry standard programming language C++, and set you up with the knowledge to get started with programming your own games, A topic which many have been struggling with.

For those who are interested:

Our first session will be held on Tuesday the 5th of January 2010 from 19.30 till 21.30 GMT+1 (dutch local time)
Things to bring: a pen and a notepad, bringing a laptop is recommended, though.

Location:
NiSuTe International office
Street: Graaf Engelbertstraat 50
Postal: 5046 LW Tilburg, The Netherlands
Phone: +31135358331

Costs: €0

prior experience required: none, this first time will be covering really basic material

length: We’re not entirely sure but we’d like to host something like 3 sessions for this pilot, each will be roughly 2 hours in length but the dates (and times), other than the first one, have not been decided yet.

Registration prior to attending is mandatory, to do so, send an email to lketelaars at nisute . com specifying your name, and phone number, as well as any special requests such as language preferences (ie. you’d prefer it to be in English or Dutch). Emails can be sent in either Dutch or English, Book your reservation now, it’s free anyhow!