| Jazz2K said: We are lucky here in Montreal. There are many studios et some of them allow visits sometimes. I had the chance to visit Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. Eidos is quite new and I will try to get there before it closes. Montreal is becoming a game developing city. The University of Montreal and Le Centre NAD offer a university degree in game design and there are a lot of smaller companies that do games like Beenox and Gameloft to name a few. If you want to learn game design Montreal is a good place... you'll have to learn french though haha! |
Yah I'm jealous of Montreal, I live an hour out of Vancouver and to be honest I liked when it was the gaming hub. I'm also still trying to a launch a video game site and have been told by Eidos and UbiSoft that if they co-operate with me and give me stories they want me to come personally and visit their Montreal studios. I would love to and really think the idea is an amazing one, but I am very low income and the website won't generate much money. This means for me to go to Montreal it would be a very big and costly deal. I couldn't stay long and it would be very difficult to get visits in with all of the major publishers and developers.
I would have prefered if Vancouver had remained the gaming capital of the world. Since Montreal started growing its game development a ton of our studios have closed and major publishers are shifting operations to Montreal and away from Vancouver.
P.S- BC has the best Video game programs in Canada. VanArts , VFS among others then if you count the fact that DigiPen is only 3 hours away from the border a ton of developers attend their school for training and it was founded in part by Nintendo. The best gaming school in North America.
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
