Train2Game

The past couple of months I've been working with the guys at DR Studios on the Train2Game course for games development. The course is a route into the games industry for those people that didn't want to go to University or couldn't go for some reason. Many of the students are more mature and are retraining from an existing career.

There are no guarantees, the course does not guarantee a job or anything at the end, no course can, but it meets the needs of a lot of people and does exactly what it says on the tin. Student success after the course will be entirely down to the student and the standard of their particular portfolio, nothing else.

The thing that constantly amazes me is that there are a small minority out there than continue to dis the course and call it a scam.

The course is endorsed by the games industry trade body TIGA. The advisory board is games industry led, and there are universities that have advised on course content and endorsed it. At that point, can it be a scam? Well, from my point of view not, but a minority still prefer to describe it as that. It begs the question of how much endorsement you need before the 'scam' moniker is put to bed for good?

The first students are approaching graduation at the end of this year. Getting them into jobs and showing that course delivers is crucial and it may well put an end to the sniping from the sidelines. Needless to say the snipers are hiding behind avatars and pseudonym's, allowing them to hide in the darkness of the internet and fling the mud. If one of them would step forward and challenge Train2Game in public, allowing the team to put their fears/concerns to bed, it would be refreshing, but they're not going to, that's just not British ...