Futuregames Preparatory Course

Don’t wait! Take the first step towards a career in the games industry.

Futuregames preparatory courses provide the ideal way to help you begin studying games development at top international games development schools, and jump start your career journey in the games industry. It consists of 3 weeks of intensive study with individual mentoring and feedback on your portfolio and help in putting together work samples for application.

We offer our preparatory courses in the following three areas:

• Games Artists
• Games Designers
• Games Programmers

Course outcome

The preparatory course for the respective area will provide you with:

• An overview of the industry and career advice.
• Instruction in the most useful tools & platforms for games development.
• One-on-one and group feedback to help you create a portfolio or work samples needed to apply to Futuregames or other games development schools.

Recommended equipment

A computer with the capability of running Maya/Unreal engine:

CPU: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster
RAM: Minimum 8 GB
Graphics card compatible with DirectX 11 or DirectX 12

Tips before starting the course

Great portfolios or work samples aren’t built in a day. Before the start of the preparatory course, it’s a good idea to have an idea of what you want to do for your work sample. It can be a new idea, or improving on something you have worked on previously.

Be realistic! Create a plan for yourself and break down the task you need to finish with clear deadlines. Prioritize the different tasks, what are the things you must have and what are the nice-to-haves. That way you can scale down if you realise you are running out of time.

Avoid copying without investigating and reflecting to make your work your own.

Make your work relevant for the education you are interested in applying to. If you are interested in applying for more than one educations, work smart and see if you can create a work sample suitable for all the educations.