With the repeated high-paying news in the game industry, the number of game-related education and training institutions has gradually increased.
17,800 yuan, for a three-month work experience, would you like it?
At a time when many Internet companies are breaking the contract to enroll in schools, Perfect World has been exposed to a teaching practice project that charges 17,800 yuan.Students will participate in the development of a seamless big world multiplayer online survival online game at the Perfect World Technology Center.
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It is reported that after entering the working group, students need to complete a series of tasks such as planning, original painting, 3D modeling, action, and special effects on the basis of understanding the core gameplay of the project.According to the development progress of the game project, the practice time will be as long as three months or more, and there will be no additional charge for the part exceeding three months.
A total of 14 places have been released for this practice project, covering art, original painting, action, special effects, planning and other types of work in game development.Students who apply actively must pass the project team's ability assessment and be recommended by the instructor of their class before directly entering the project team.
Perfect World's move immediately attracted attention, and many voices accused it of recruiting people for "paid part-time jobs", which was quite suspicious of earning development resources in the name of training.
Perfect World later responded publicly: This project is actually an internal vocational education test project called "Pixel Seed" under the company's education business, and it does not recruit externally, and is not the "recruitment for paid work" that is reported on the Internet.
According to the information on the official website, Pixel Seed is a vocational education and training institution incubated by Perfect World Education that focuses on the game, animation, film and television industry. Let zero-based students have the basic ability to practice after 6-8 months of training.A number of game companies, including NetEase Games, Ali Games, Tencent Games, Xishanju, and Kunlun Wanwei, have cooperated with Pixel Seeds.
According to the introduction of Pixel Seed sales staff to Times Finance, the current offline training courses of Pixel Seed are mainly concentrated in Chengdu and Beijing.Among them, the game planning course is only offered in Beijing. It is held every six months, with a small class of 25 students.
Courses such as game UI design, 3D scene design, and character design are offered offline in Chengdu and Beijing. The price is lower than that of game planning courses. The duration is 5-6 months, and the quotation ranges from 21,800 yuan to 28,800 yuan.All the above courses require students to pay for their own board and lodging.
In addition, Pixel Seeds also provides relatively cheap online video courses. For example, a video course on 3D character design will be launched in August, with an offer of 5,800 yuan for a period of 9 weeks.But such courses do not recommend employment opportunities.
In other words, only after paying at least 20,000 yuan in tuition and studying for about half a year can you get the opportunity to enter the above-mentioned paid program "internship".Taking the game planning course of Pixel Seeds as an example, if you want to enter the "internship" program in these three months, you must pay at least 35,800 yuan in tuition, plus 17,800 yuan in practice fees, the total cost will be as high as 53,600 yuan .
Even in the face of such high prices, many fresh graduates and career changers who lack practical experience are still willing to take out the money in their pockets.In the game and IT industries where project experience is highly valued, being able to spend money to buy an internship opportunity for a project can indeed add a lot to your resume.
However, during the consultation process, the salesperson pointed out that the current 17,800 yuan internal test project has been suspended, and now even if he wants to apply, there is no chance.
According to the insiders of Pixel Seed, the practice project was originally a test and teaching product within the company.The above-mentioned projects are set up because, on the one hand, many students want to enter the actual development and operation projects to reduce the difficulty of finding jobs in the future; on the other hand, the company also wants to test whether the internal students have the strength to join the group.
But embarrassingly, they finally found that students with relatively high skills wanted to work in big game companies outside, while students with average skills were difficult to pass the ability assessment of the project team, and the actual situation was difficult to advance."So this project has been temporarily put aside. Under the epidemic, let's first ensure the basic quality of teaching and employment."
Some game industry practitioners told Times Finance that in recent years, with the frequent high-paying news in the game industry, game-related education and training institutions have gradually increased.Most training institutions will cooperate with some game companies, and recommend the trainees who have completed the training to the cooperative game companies.
"The game industry generally has a long development cycle and high uncertainty in revenue. What if someone pays to come in and screw up the entire project process? Especially for big companies like Tencent and NetEase, game design requires a lot of employee experience. , it’s impossible to open up opportunities to go out in this way.”
She guessed that this kind of work is more like an internship for core personnel such as the main planner and main artist, and the project's internal rating will not be too high.
