The Evil Triad

Perhaps now would be a good time to shed a little light on and do some analysis of the evil triad that is the local game development studios, the AIE and the GDAA.

Let’s start with the insanely expensive and ultimately useless educational institution that is called the AIE (Academy of Interactive Entertainment).

For those not familiar with this rip off institution, they have set themselves up as the go to place for training for all of those naive young people who desperately want a career in the local Australian games industry.

They will happily take ‘full fee paying’ students, cram them into classes and try to teach them the skills that Australian game developers have told them they currently require.

What they don’t tell these poor kids is that not only will they waste thousands of dollars in sub standard training and development, but upon completion of there ‘dream coarse’ most will have a snow balls chance in hell of gaining employment in the games industry and no hope of getting a job of any type in IT or design.

These kids have been duped and would have been much better off attending a proper University instead of this con factory.

This brings us to the GDAA (Game Developers Association of Australia), an organization which is the mouth piece of the local games industry.

These people attempt to convince the local industry that they are there to support them. The fact that many of them are CEO’s of most of the local games companies should be warning enough.

They set up over priced conferences with guest speakers who might have been top of there game 10 years ago, but are not worth listening to for free, let alone paying to hear there self indulgent ramblings.

They will suck every last dollar out of the people they are there to support and then complain about how the local industry needs funding from the government to keep there useless organization going.