Students: You can still enter Microsoft's Imagine Cup

What is it? The Imagine Cup is the global student technology competition that encourages students to innovate with technology. Every year students from over 200+ countries submit their project to the competition. The best teams come to Seattle for the Imagine Cup World Finals to compete against other teams for the grand prize of $50,000…

//GameOn contest for student game devs, how I started with GDC

In October, I wrote about how I would get started with programming, knowing what I do today. With this post, I wanted to explain how I got started in game devleopment and programming. This all ties into the latest promotion that Microsoft has for students. I’ve been pushing for the return of Dream.Build.Play, an XNA…

Students: MSFT Imagine Cup 2015 is about to start

  I wish they would have had something like this when I was in school. There’s even a category for games right now. If you’re working on something with Unity, or another middleware engine, I’d love to hear about it. I can also grant you BizSpark, to help get started, with free software, hardware, and…

Two new gaming courses on MVA

We have two new gaming courses on MVA in the last few weeks. All of the assets and slides are available through the links below. Enjoy, and let me know what you think! Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity We went over a number of courses, including:…

How to open your developer account from DreamSpark

Fellow Tech Evangelist, Joe Healy, put together a great set of slides on how to open your developer account via DreamSpark. Joe Healy – How to set up your DreamSpark account from Dave Voyles   Not sure if your school has DreamSpark? Head over to https://www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Access.aspx look at the lower right for this image Type in…

TIL: Unity has way cheaper pricing for students / faculty

I was at Unity’s Unite conference in Seattle this week, and I learned from their education team that Unity has far cheaper licensing for students, faculty, and schools. In partnership with Studica, Unity has discounted costs. Here’s a link to the page.   Also, Autodesk, creators of Maya, 3DS Max, etc., also have FREE versions…