'Deus Ex' Creator Starting His Own Gaming Academy. Warren Spector.
In the fall of 2014, a rare opportunity will be given to 20 of the most promising video game developers in the world. That’s when a chosen few will begin a yearlong program at the University of Texas at Austin, where they will study under some of the gaming industry’s most successful executives. At the new Denius-Sams Gaming Academy, the goal is not merely to train great video game developers. The idea is to train the next generation of video game development team leaders, ready to succeed in an industry whose business models are undergoing rapid change.
“We’re going to take people through the entire process of conceptualizing a game, and pitching that game,” program leader Warren Spector said in an interview. If you’ve heard the name Warren Spector, it’s because he’s created some extremely well known games; his greatest achievement may be Deus Ex, a role-playing game set in a dystopian future that combines first-person shooter and stealth gameplay.
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