GI Academy Student event is bringing Warzone, Need for Speed, and Battlefield devs to the table

GamesIndustry.biz is hosting a free video game event for students, featuring a variety of developers and experts from development studios around the world. This includes some behind big names, like Total War, Call of Duty: Warzone, Need for Speed, and much more. If you are a student, You can sign up here.

The event takes place between October 26 and October 28 on Discord, and will feature a series of roundtable sessions, masterclasses, keynote talks, and, perhaps most enticing, one-on-one chats with select attendees. All this is free, as long as you sign up.

As for the specific fields of gaming-related roles that will get good use out of this event, the developers in attendance come from a variety of backgrounds including audio, visual effects, concept art, character design, programming, user interface user, voice acting, business development. , production, community management and writing. So there’s plenty of room for students from a variety of courses to take something away from the event.

For a full list of what’s coming, you can check out the full schedule of events on GamesIndustry’s original post, but it’s worth going if you have a degree you’re working on. It’s really worth talking to developers, people who spend their days creating the games we all talk and write about. And you can do it all through Discord! Back when I was in college, you had to travel to London for this kind of thing. How times have changed…

Plus, Eurogamer’s Editor-in-Chief Martin Robinson will be there to talk about his work. Having met Martin, he seems like a very nice guy and has been writing on websites much longer than I have. Sign up and say hello from me if you plan to go!

Will you be showing up? Let us know below, as well as which talks specifically excite you.