Partners

AMD
ATI Developer Relations focus is on education, technical support and coding assistance driving graphics feature adoption in software applications. A core mandate is the support of open standards and tools, assisting to ensure research and innovation quickly make its way to the end user for the ultimate gaming experience.

"With IDGA's strong commitment to developer education, community building, and support we find there is a lot of synergy between our organizations. It is only natural that we support their efforts as much as possible. ATI is pleased to help to ensure IGDA is successful in all their endeavors."

Mike Smith, Technical Developer Relations Manager

Austin Community College
Austin Community College offers a Continuing Education program in Video Game Development. Specializations in Programming, Art, Design and Production are available. ACC’s program is designed and developed by the leaders of Austin's video game development companies. Instructors are industry professionals from a wide variety of Austin companies. They bring current experiences to the classroom.

"The IGDA is dedicated to improving the professionalism of the video game industry. The IGDA's curriculum framework is an exceptionally valuable asset for both students and educators. Austin Community College is excited about partnering with the IGDA to support this dynamic and growing community."

Bob McGoldrick, Program Coordinator

Autodesk Media and Entertainment
Autodesk empowers Game Developers to transform their visions into reality. Its award-winning 3D animation, modeling, and rendering products lead the industry with the most realistic CG and animation found in 80% of the world's best-selling games for the PC and console. Autodesk 3ds Max software is the 3D weapon of choice among industry leading game development studios like Electronic Arts, Activision, Ubisoft, Rockstar Games, Sega, Bungie, Konami, Blizzard and so many others who all rely on 3ds Max to create the worlds most popular, award winning games.

"It’s the de facto standard. 3ds Max is the Photoshop® of game development."

Kevin McDowell, Lead Artist

Cal State Fullerton Extension
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the many disciplines that make a new video game a reality. The in-depth classes in University Extended Education’s Certificate in Game Development were created by game developers…for game developers. Current developers moving toward the next level of their careers will find this 5-month program of convenient evening classes is a great way to expand their skill sets and emerge as industry leaders.

"As a leader in continuing education, we are proud to sponsor IGDA in its mission to advance the careers of game developers, and the industry through professional development. The curriculum for the Certificate in Game Development offered by UEE is aligned with the core topics identified by the Curriculum Framework developed by IGDA to meet the needs of the game developers. "

Shelly Wang, Program Developer

CellPerformance.com
CellPerformance.com is a non-commercial, all volunteer effort dedicated to researching and publishing code and articles for the Cell Broadband Engine™ processor. CellPerformance welcomes students, hobbyists and game professionals alike to participate in this growing Cell community.

"CellPerformance proudly supports the IGDA's mission to make game development better for everyone. By focusing on eduction, the rights of developers and fair and equitable agreements for everyone involved, the IGDA is a key player in maintaining the health of the video game industry."

Mike Acton, Director

Cogswell Polytechnical College
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cogswell Polytechnical College is an accredited, private institution offering B.A. and B.S. degrees in programs that fuse digital arts and engineering. Our alumni are building careers in the converging global industries of video games, animation, digital audio and engineering.

"Cogswell Polytechnical College supports IGDA because we take its mission statement to heart. Through our Game Design Program, we prepare our students to succeed in the video game industry and we see IGDA as an extension of our support in our students' collegiate and professional careers."

Bonnie Phelps, Dean Institutional Advancement

Corbel Systems International, LLC
Corbel Systems International, LLC is the premier minority owned staffing augmentation and solution firm in the Video Game Industry. Our concentration is in the Urban Video Game market where we seek to level the playing field for Urban Game studios in the global economy through our innovative strategic thinking and technological process.

"As the ultimate resource vehicle in the video game industry we support IGDA in assisting in educating and providing career development for professionals who are passionate in video game development. We support the IGDA in its efforts to be the ultimate organizational body for the video game industry."

Alfred C. Turner, CEO

Course Technology PTR
Charles River Media/Course PTR (Thomson Learning) is a premier publisher of professional game development books, including the Game Programming Gems series. The newly published Journal of Game Development (JOGD) also provides a vehicle for disseminating cutting-edge research from industry and academia, and will help garner further acceptance of game development by the academic community.

"The IGDA's mission to provide the industry and its members with timely information, tools, and support is critical to the continued growth and advancement of the field. Charles River Media/Course PTR supports this mission and the many community-building and educational efforts of the IGDA."

Jenifer Niles, Publisher

DePaul Game Dev
The Game Dev Program at DePaul University in Chicago offers undergraduate and graduate study in Game Development: Game Programming, Design, Production and Animation, with an emphasis on multi-disciplinary team project courses. We have strong ties to the Chicago game community, including our Industry Advisory Board and sponsoring the Chicago IGDA chapter.

"As our students become game developers, it is only natural that we should seek to support the IGDA, which will help them to further their careers. We are also pleased to contribute towards IGDA's many academic initiatives."

Robin Burke, Associate Professor

DeVry University
One of the largest degree-granting higher education systems in North America, DeVry University offers flexible scheduling and convenience with 80+ locations, online classes, or a mixture of both. Earn respected associate, bachelor's or master's degrees from an accredited university. A career-oriented education from DeVry helps you begin or advance in the workplace when you graduate.

"We are very excited to partner with the IGDA. Both DeVry and the IGDA seek to advance careers and enhance the lives of game developers. We look forward to working closely with IGDA to help meet the needs of the game industry with graduates who can hit the ground running in their first job and be an immediate asset to the game development community."

Catherine Wyman, Acting Program Director, Game and Simulation Programming

Flashpoint Academy
Flashpoint, The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, is a brand-new college in Chicago committed to the advancement of higher learning in the field of digital arts and entertainment technologies. Surrounded by their peers and educators with a passion for the future, students at Flashpoint pursue two-year programs in Film, Game Development, Visual Effects & Animation or Recording Arts.

"We are training kids today with things we did not even know yesterday, and we are building schools for things we won't know until tomorrow."

Howard A. Tullman, President/CEO

GameRecruiter
The premier recruiting firm in interactive entertainment, GameRecruiter offers unparalleled experience, integrity and professionalism for candidates taking their next career step and employers seeking the industry’s leading talent. Committed to high-touch customer service, GameRecruiter.com is uniquely positioned to serve the challenging and continually evolving employment needs of a global clientele. With a 20-year history of recruitment specializing in unique and unadvertised opportunities exclusively in games, GameRecruiter has earned an international reputation for expertly recruiting the technical, production, and executive staff who build game industry companies and make game history.

"GameRecruiter.com is proud to support the IGDA. Their efforts perfectly embody our company's philosophy as they reach out to industry newcomers and veterans alike, as well as help keep a genuine sense of community spirit alive in this dynamic and rapidly growing industry."

Marc Mencher, President

Havok
Havok’s modular suite of tools gives power to the creator, making sure that our clients can reach new standards of realism and interactivity, while mitigating the overall cost and risks associated with creating today’s leading video games and movies. Known best for our battle-tested Havok Physics, we also offer Havok Animation, Havok Behavior, and coming Summer 2008, Havok Cloth and Havok Destruction. Havok’s cross-platform, professionally supported technology is available for the Wii™, PLAYSTATION®3, PLAYSTATION®2, PSP™, Xbox 360™ and the PC.

"Havok is very proud to be supporting the work of the IGDA because it brings the very best of the games community together for really worthwhile sessions of knowledge sharing and debate on where our industry is going. Whenever we go to a chapter meeting or other IGDA event, we find ourselves down in the trenches with people who really care about making good games."

Dave Gargan, Head of Developer Relations

Houston Community College
The Houston Community College is an open-admission, public higher education institution offering associate degrees, certificates, and other academic preparations. It offers career training that leads to employment in the game industry as either a game artist or a game programmer and uses state-of-the-art technologies to help students reach their personal and professional goals.

"The IGDA's curriculum framework was the main resource in putting together the Digital Gaming and Simulation curriculum at Houston Community College. In addition, the local IGDA chapter has given our students a networking opportunity with industry. Houston Community College is proud to partner with IGDA which is committed to the interaction between industry and academia."

Reni Abraham, Chair, Digital Gaming and Simulation Department

IGN Entertainment - ModCenter.com
ModCenter is IGN Entertainment's newest, developer-focused website that brings the power of SourceForge Enterprise Edition to indie game and mod developers. ModCenter's purpose is to provide development tools that are normally extremely expensive to projects for free as a method of building relationships between developers and the IGN/FIM network.

"The IGDA's mission to provide aspiring and established developers with the knowledge and resources to create one-of-a-kind development projects aligns directly with why IGN created ModCenter in the first place. Partnering with the IGDA builds on IGN's commitment with ModCenter to support the creation of new and unique game concepts from within the gaming community."

Jill Albin Macfarland, Sr. Director, Consumer Products

Intel Corporation
Intel platforms help you Leap Ahead™ to create the new normal. We provide building blocks for new digital worlds. Our platforms make your games possible, whether they run on your servers, in your living room, in your office, or in the palm of your hand.

"Intel proudly sponsors the IGDA as part of our continuing efforts to support the video game industry and those who make games. Great games use the full potential of our platforms to provide great entertainment experiences to players around the world. You, Intel, and the IGDA all make great games possible."

Scott Crabtree, Engineering Manager, Software & Solutions Group

Interactive Studio Management
Interactive Studio Management (ISM) is the leading business management agency representing video game developers worldwide. Founded in 1996, ISM represents some of today's top independent game development companies. Working closely with its clients, ISM advises them on industry conditions, negotiates their publishing contracts, and assists them throughout the development process. Because of ISM's unrivaled track-record and expertise, ISM is able to create significant opportunities for their clients. The partners at ISM are people of integrity, known for their business acumen and strategic thinking. ISM has offices in Los Angeles and northern California.

"IGDA provides an essential conduit for game development professionals and organizations to get up-to-the-minute, practical information on the issues that we wrestle with most"

Clyde Grossman, Partner

Reachin Technologies
HaptX is a state of the art haptics engine designed to embed extremely realistic high-fidelity haptics within games. Let the gamer feel wind, gravity, shock waves, recoils, weight and textures of objects to mention a few examples. HaptX integrates seamlessly with graphics and physics engines providing new creative opportunities for your gaming environment.

"We are proud to support IGDA and participate in a global market for a continuous improvement of computer based entertainment."

Mats Lordin, CEO

San Diego Continuing Education
The Multimedia & Entertainment Initiative (MEI) is a statewide network of community college educators working in strategic partnerships with industry and community organizations to identify and meet California's workforce and economic development needs. San Diego Continuing Education, in partnership with MEI since 1998, provides free digital and media arts education to residents of California.

"The IGDA sparks and supports our efforts to provide leadership in game-focused faculty development and industry-standard curriculum."

JT Vincent, Dean of Business and Information Technology

Savannah College of Art an
The Savannah College of Art and Design is an international university for the arts offering B.F.A., M.A. and M.F.A. degrees in 23 majors, including animation, broadcast design, film and television, interactive design and game development, sound design and visual effects. For more information please call 800.869.7223 or visit the college Web site at www.scad.edu.

"The Savannah College of Art and Design is proud to be a partner of the IGDA. The IGDA mission to strengthen the international game development community supports our mission to prepare talented students for careers in the industry. We look forward to working with them in our mission to prepare the next generation of game developers."

Josephine Leong, chair of interactive design and game development

SimGame Exchange
The SimGame Exchange makes new business happen for interactive entertainment companies. We supply the resources, expertise, and connections that result in new customers, markets, and partners. We also help you raise money to launch or grow your ventures and create new income streams from your products and technologies.

"The SimGame Exchange is proud to play a critical support role as the IGDA membership deploys its technologies into the general business community. We provide the tools and the vision necessary to successfully embed gaming technologies into new business performance solutions, while simultaneously creating new business opportunities for the gaming community."

Raymond Hutchins, President

SN Systems Ltd
Since 1988, SN Systems has been setting the standards for development tools within the console industry. As new platforms appear SN is the first to provide tools to the industry to work with the new target. SN's tools are widely regarded as the leading development system on all main console platforms and for programmers throughout the world.

"When we first started out as games developers, a central independent organisation was missing from the industry. The IGDA represents this focal point and now as tools developers to the gaming community we feel that joining is the natural choice for us and we are pleased to have the opportunity to be a part of it."

Andy Beveridge, Director

Softimage Co
Softimage was founded in 1986 with a mission to create 3-D production tools for artists. Since the beginning, Softimage has been committed to developing true partnerships with the customers who help shape our products. This commitment has enabled us to create leadership technology, founded in a unique artistic awareness.

"The IGDA is focused on issues beyond the purely commercial, which ensures a healthy, creative community. Interactive entertainment remains a young industry, and the IGDA has a crucial role to play in lowering financial barriers, promoting education, and providing forums for discussion. Everyone benefits from sharing, and Softimage is proud to contribute."

Gareth Morgan, Product Manager, Interactive Media Tools

The University of Derby
The University of Derby has been supporting the field of Digital Entertainment since 1996 and has recently added a specialist BSc Computer Games Programming course. The University of Derby’s commitment to the field of Games development has been shown in our recent £150K investment in a new games laboratory, strong games industry ties both local and national, recruitment of industry experts and our close development partnership with Microsoft. Many games related degrees arise because a University wants to find a more attractive way to teach Computer Science; at the University of Derby we have created a degree with the sole focus of producing the best programmers for the future of the games industry.

"The University is happy to support the IGDA. The IGDA's role in bringing together industry and academia is key for the future talent of games developers; proposals such as the Curriculum Framework can only help ensure that academia meets the needs of its students and the needs of the development community. We're now looking forward to being active members of the IGDA."

Matthew Birkin, Senior Supervisor

University Campus Suffolk
UCS currently offers two degree courses related to computer games: BA (Hons) in Computer Games Design and BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Programming. Both are available for full-time or part-time study at the Ipswich campus. University Campus Suffolk is a unique collaboration between two of the UK's top universities, the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia.

"University Campus Suffolk is pleased to support IGDA. We appreciate the value of the guidance, support and opportunities for networking IGDA provides for those involved in computer games development and related industries, including education and training. IGDA's Curriculum Framework provided a useful frame of reference for the development of our games-related courses."

Eddie Duggan, Senior Teaching Practitioner, Suffolk School of Arts