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Gaming the City

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By Laura Reilly (EGPR ’18)

Montreal is a huge gaming hub. What I mean by this is that Montreal is full of not only great game companies like Ubisoft or Compulsion, but Montreal is also home to some of the greatest gaming opportunities for either developers or those that just love playing video games. To name a few would be an understatement, so I’m here to name all of the different aspects of gaming culture here in Montreal!

  1. In the classroom

If you’re majoring in a division of the Game Studio, chances are your professors are developers themselves at different companies. For example, artists here learn VFX  from a developer at Behaviour, and two sections of Production ll learn from a producer and a gameplay programmer at Ubisoft! Since our professors are in the industry themselves, they have the firsthand experience of working in the industry to apply knowledge into the classroom. And if you’re lucky, they’ll invite recruiters to come and play your Production games! (Some are coming next week to see mine…help).

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Making the Most of MIGS

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By Maina Chen (PWRT ’18)

A section of Ubisoft’s booth, featuring a VR glimpse into Watch Dogs 2.

For gamers coming up to Montreal in the Fall, one of the most talked about events other than the weekly game company visits, deals with prepping for the Montreal International Game Summit; classes are shuffled around and professors reschedule to accommodate. Titled MIGS for short, for three days in mid-November, MIGS is a gathering place for anyone interested in the game industry. With people appearing from Hibernum, EA, PlayStation VR, Microsoft, Playtika, Frima, Ubisoft, WB Games Montreal, Eidos Montreal, Ludia, and a bunch of indies; MIGS is open to those looking for future jobs.

In fact, they’re marketed not only to those already in the industry, but students like us who want to try stepping foot in that door. The price of the tickets is daunting, but with the Super Early Bird discounts, the price can be cut down 20 percent, and even more so for Student passes. I’ve had the pleasure of attending and have some words of advice to anyone looking forward to the 2017 edition.

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Spring Intern Wrap-Up

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This Spring, three of our students participated in exciting Montreal-based internships that expanded upon their skills while helping to develop whole new experiences. Here’s what they have to say about it! Ben Lander (MCRM ’17) @ Nvizzio As a project management intern I was able to contribute to the organizational efforts of two projects at […]

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Play Time! Hibernum Game Testing

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By Caitlyn Kenney (GART ’17) The Montreal game studio Hibernum extended a fantastic opportunity to Champlain students. Currently in development at Hibernum is their survival strategy game Zombie Cruise, and they asked if we would like to give it a whirl as QA (quality assurance) testers. Throughout the week we set up times to go […]

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Welcomed Visitors: Champlain @ Illogika

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By Brian Hahn (GART ’17) This semester, we went to visit the game company illogika, a small indie company working on the game Subaeria, which is a rogue-like puzzle game. This company visit wound up being very different from the rest, since they gave us all the opportunity to sit down and talk with people […]

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Women & Gaming: Pixelles Comes To Champlain

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By Alexis Faintreny (GART ’17) The games industry has amassed a huge audience over the last twenty years, and the growth of mobile games has introduced an even larger player base. Despite the largest percent of the players being women, there’s still misogyny existent that tries to dissociate girls from video games. Pixelles is a […]

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Let’s (Game) Jam!

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By Jake Pierce (GPRO ’17) As we slowly shuffled through the Bonaventure Metro at seven in the morning, all team members were feeling a mixture of pride, happiness, and exhaustion. We had just spent the last 12 hours at École de Technologie Supérieure, attempting to develop a game revolving around the theme of a ritual. […]

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