DADIU is an academy

Academy

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 located in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 and Aalborg

Aalborg

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 in Denmark

Denmark

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 that educates students in the creation of computer games

Computer Games

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. The Academy is a collaboration between nine university educations and three art schools in Denmark.

Education

The program at the National Academy for Digital, Interactive Entertainment is a specialisation. The students come from eight different universities and arts schools but are taught a joint curriculum. Aside from that they meet twice in the course of two years for joint productions of four and eight weeks in duration. Productions take place in May and February/March in Copenhagen and Aalborg.

The students thus complete their ongoing studies but also receive a diploma certifying to the industry that they have completed the training at the Academy.

Student work (games)

Students meet twice in the course of two years for joint productions of four and eight weeks in duration. The aim of the joint productions is to work together on developing a game. Each person participates with the specific competence gained through his or her educational background, as on a real productions.

The production is designed in close collaboration with the industry. Each production consists of seven core competencies: project manager

Project manager

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, game programmer

Game programmer

A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebase for video games or related software, such as game development tools. Game programming has many specialized disciplines all of which fall under the umbrella term of "game programmer"...

, game designer, game director

Game director

Game director may refer to:* Video game producer, the person in charge of overseeing development of a video game* Technical director, usually a senior technical person within creative group...

, game artist

Game artist

A game artist is an artist who creates art for one or more types of games. Game artists are responsible for all of the aspects of game development that call for visual art...

, animator

Animator

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, and audio designer. In this way that production is as close to the real world as at all possible.

Some of the award-winning games made by the students are:

• Flipside
  • IGF Student Showcase, 2008
• Dish Washington
  • IGF Student Showcase, 2009