The Czech gaming industry has grown in recent years and needs additional workforce. The annual sales volume has increased in recent years and exceeded five billion crowns. According to Pavel Barak of the Game Developers Association, the film and television industry together is twice the size of the film and television industries. That’s why the master’s degree in game design at FAMU in Prague was opened half a year ago. The college describes the students’ great interest in people’s lectures from practice.
“From the other departments, we feel the students’ interest in the lectures given by people from practice,” he describes the events at Sýkora College (Illustration) | Photo: Come Kingdom: Deliverance
Andrej Sýkora heads the game design field at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Prague. He describes the study as: “a space for experimentation, to experiment with innovative design and the possibility of failure,”
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“Game design means the mechanics and concept of the game and how it should work. What does it look like when the player turns left or right, what do the individual levels look like”, explains the head of the field.
Compulsory training in a game company is part of the game design studies. “We can arrange that, or the student can find an internship on his own and go with him on the Erasmus programme,” Skoura adds.
In just a few months, at the end of the first year, students will be ready for their first games. According to Skora, it is still too early to judge. Now they will be game prototypes and they will publish their graduate theses in a couple of years. “From In other departments, we feel students’ interest in people’s lectures through practice,” he describes what is happening at Sýkora College.
Pavel Barak of the Association of Game Developers describes the situation in the Czech games labor market as bad in the long run: “There is certainly a shortage of people working in the games industry in the Czech Republic and this situation does not change. The industry often looks for highly qualified workers, who suffer from In general, there is a lack of supply in the market.
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“Jobs are constantly being created, for any position today, there will be an open position at the moment. According to our survey, game companies opened more than 300 sites in 2020. This may not seem like much, but it is an industry with two thousand people,” Barak confirms.
According to the association’s survey, most people in the industry are self-taught, often only learning specific skills in companies.
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