The Internship Chronicles: Michael-Paul

By Michael-Paul Ho-Kang-You (GPROD ’20)

During the Fall 2018 semester, Michael-Paul interned at Iron Belly Studios as an Associate Producer.

Michael-Paul (GPROD ’20)

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Ironbelly Studios is comprised of a talented, passionate and dedicated number of game developers from all corners of the globe. The studio focus is on creating high-quality entertainment experiences as well as providing outsourcing services at a fraction of the cost seen elsewhere, such as 2D, 3D, Animation, UI, VR, LD, and Archviz. IronBelly was founded in 2009 and located in Montreal, Canada.

During my Fall semester of 2018, I interned at Ironbelly Studio in Montreal, Canada as an Associate Producer having Adrian David as my supervisor. He is the Vice President of Internal Operations at Ironbelly Studios. Throughout my time at Ironbelly Studio, I had a few responsibilities at Ironbelly such as: Continue reading →

The Internship Chronicles: Ryan

By Ryan Murphy (GPROD ’20)

During the Fall 2018 semester, Ryan found himself working as a Production Assistant Intern at Rogue Factor.

Ryan Murphy GPROD ’20

My name is Ryan Murphy, I am 20 years old and currently a Production Assistant Intern at Rogue Factor. Throughout my life, I have had 3 jobs, including the position that I am currently at with Rogue Factor. I plan to briefly talk about those positions but mainly focus on my current job at Rogue Factor. Lastly, I am going to talk about what I have learned throughout my experience at Rogue Factor.

The first job that I ever worked at was as a teachers assistant at a camp for 3-5-year-olds called Camp Ellie. It was run by a company called Stepping Stones Museum for Children, I worked there from June 2017 to August 2017. At first, I assisted at the museum and helped set up all of the packets filled with worksheets that were used at Camp Ellie. Then started work at Camp Ellie at the end of June, while there I was in a classroom with three others. One was the lead teacher, and the other two people were also teachers assistants. The four of us were in charge of twenty 3-4-year-olds and teaching them interpersonal skills. Continue reading →

The Internship Chronicles: Chris

By Chris McCammon (GPROD ’20)

During the Fall 2018 semester, Chris interned at Casa Rara, a game development studio in Montreal.

During my time studying abroad in Montreal, I interned at a small game development studio called Casa Rara. This amazingly weird place is where I learned so much about my major, game production management, and what it really means to be a producer in the real world. The studio started October 4, 2016, with an official start date of January 16, 2017. Casa Rara is made up of veterans from the gaming industry such as our creative director who worked on Papa and Yo, as well as our programmer who worked on Roller Coaster Tycoon World. Our producer, Tali, has had years of experience in regular film production as well as in virtual reality game production at Minority Media. Continue reading →

The Internship Chronicles: Charlie & Wes

By Charlie Grabber (GPROD ’20) and Wes Weitzman (GDES ’20)

During the Fall 2018 semester, Charlie and Wes both interned at Back to the Game.

Wes (far left) and Charlie (far right) with partners from Back to the Game.

Charlie

During my time in Montreal, I worked as a Production Intern at Back to the Game. The company was founded by Richard Rispoli, an industry veteran who worked at EA Interactive and Ubisoft during his 15+ years working as a producer and project lead. I learned a lot about managing a team of 8-10 people, organizing schedules and keeping the project running smoothly via Trello, and how to organize and prioritize multiple clients for a service-based product. Continue reading →

The Internship Chronicles: Abigail

By Abigail Scott (MRKT ’20)

During the Fall 2018 semester, Abby Scott worked with Ironbelly Studios as a marketing intern.

Abigail Scott (MRKT ’20) interning at Iron Belly Studios

One of the biggest worries I had when choosing to study abroad in Montreal was if I could find an internship that would work for me. When I first came to Champlain College I knew I wanted to study abroad and learning that I could have an internship abroad only made it that much better. When it came time to apply I was a bit torn between Montreal and Dublin. I was really excited about the possibility of interning in a large city such as Montreal. However, I was nervous about being a business student trying to mix my marketing major with my interest in the video game industry. With a little bit of faith, I decided to apply for an internship in Montreal and am beyond happy with the result.

My internship with Ironbelly Studios has taught me so much. Ironbelly Studios was founded in 2009 and has an office based in Montreal while having several remote workers from around the world. Having worked with an international staff in the past, I was very excited to be able to work in an environment Continue reading →

The Internship Chronicles: Austin

By Austin Roorda (GPROD ’20)

During the Fall 2018 Semester, Austin interned at Behaviour Interactive in Montreal.

My name is Austin Roorda, and this semester in Montreal I was a Project Management Intern working at Behaviour Interactive. Behaviour Interactive is an independent game development studio based in Montreal, although it’s roots are actually Quebec City, where it was founded as Multimedia Interactive in 1992.

Since 1992, the company has worked on over 150 titles, many of which belong to AAA IP’s and have sold millions and millions of copies. Some of the titles that it has worked on include winners of several ‘Game of the Year’ awards with their work on titles such as Fallout Shelter. Behaviour also works on and creates its own IP’s, such as the critically acclaimed Dead By Daylight. Continue reading →

The Internship Chronicles: Brett

By Brett Schwartz (GPROD ’20)

During the Fall 2018 Semester, Brett interned at Minority Media Inc. as a Management and Marketing intern.

Brett Schwartz (GPROD ’20)

During my time studying abroad in Montreal I worked at Minority Media Inc. as a
Management and Marketing Intern. It’s a relatively small studio that continued to shrink during my time there. Our studio is a single flat with two office spaces and a meeting room connected to the center room, and the over all floor is shared with another software development agency and a publishing studio. So as one could imagine, Minority Media isn’t a very large crowd but its collective unit has got over fifty years of experience working in all aspects of their collective industry. The core business team remains together as their projects evolve, but the development team seems to change with key members working for a few years and then moving to another place in the industry. Through it all has been Stella, the maleficent office dog

Minority Media was formed eight years ago by Vander Caballero and Julien Barnoin.
They quickly became recognized in the VR development sector for their commercial success with Papa & Yo. Following this, they continued to stand by VR game development despite the failures it faced in commercial acceptance. Minority had adapted by developing for Continue reading →

The Internship Chronicles: Emmett & John

By Emmett Friedrichs (GDES ’20) and John Kornet (GPROG ’20)

During the Fall 2018 Semester, two of our students interned at Ludiq, located at theGameplay Space here in Montreal.

Emmett

Throughout the semester I have been a Prototype Developer Intern at Ludiq located at the Gameplay Space in Montreal, CA. As a company Ludiq consists of three main staff members Lazlo the founder and head of the company, Hassan in charge of marketing, and Andy an additional programmer. Ludiq began as a tool creation group for the Unity3D Asset Store, their first product named Chronos Time Control was a Unity asset tool that allowed developers to easily control time within their projects. After the products success, Lazlo then began working on the companies next big product named Bolt. Bolt is a visual scripting plugin and has been widely successful within the asset store as a primary go-to for developers that want to quickly prototype or code using widgets similar to the Unreal Engine. Due to this Continue reading →

Hungry Travelers: We Eat It, You Read It

Leanna Russell (GART ’20) and Grace Magnant (GART ’20) adventured through the streets of Montreal during their Fall 2018 semester reviewing local restaurants all while staying within the average college student’s budget. While on these adventures, they discovered everything from juicy dumplings to affordable cocktails.

For more on their discoveries and food reviews, check out their website!

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Concordia University Greenhouse: The Tropics in a Bottle

Students in the Global Environment Earth Sciences class visit Concordia University’s greenhouse for a class trip.

By Liam Werrmann (GPROG ’20)

Last Wednesday, my Science class and I ended up making a trip to Concordia’s rooftop greenhouse where we were able to see some of the practices that Concordia University has put into place to ensure a stable, green environment. It has a study area within one area of the greenhouse and a sustainable café on the first floor of the main building (both of which are sadly not pictured within this post- but I would recommend that you
definitely make the trip yourself to witness it all firsthand!).