Education

At the Career PavilionThe Think Services Game Group assists schools with student recruitment and student placement via our industry leading events, online properties, and award winning print publications.

Schools that utilize the Think Services Game Group properties include Vancouver Film School, DigiPen, Full Sail University, University of Advancing Technology, Boston University, Savannah College of Art & Design, University of Central Florida, Center for Distance Education, Carnegie Mellon, Masters of Digital Media, Santa Barbara Community College, Gnomon School of Visual Effects, the Art Institute Online, The Guildhall at SMU, Academy of Art, Brown College, and many more.

Events – The Game Developers Conference® (GDC) is the largest event for aspiring and professional game developers in the world.  From the flagship event each spring in San Francisco, through regional conferences in Canada, Europe, China, and Austin, Texas, GDC is the essential forum for learning, inspiration, and networking with the largest gathering of game industry HR reps under one roof.

Fast Facts:

  • For more than twenty years, GDC continues to showcase cutting edge technologies and industry trends in gaming, technologies, and game education.
  • GDC conferences serve over 500 exhibitors and sponsors, and 25,000 attendees, from more than 70 countries each year
  • Home of the Independent Games Festival (IGF), recognizing the best independent game developers – professional and student – since 1998.

Online – Together, GameCareerGuide.com and Gamasutra.com serve approximately 3 million page views each month to aspiring and professional game developers around the world.

GameCareerGuide.com is ideal for student recruitment as it is dedicated solely to aspiring game developers and artists with exclusive content and the largest directory of active game schools online.

Fast Facts:

  • More than 55,000 unique visitors each month
  • Average visitor spends more than 10 minutes researching game education on the site each month
  • 1 in 9 visitors click thru to a school’s website upon reading their school profile
  • Home to the fastest growing e-newsletter in the Gamasutra network with more than 19,000 opt-in subscribers

Gamasutra.com is ideal for school / event promotion and recruitment into post graduate and continuing education programs.

An internationally recognized and Webby Award winning online community, Gamasutra.com delivers daily news and original features to a global audience.

Fast Facts

  • Over 412,000 registered members
  • Approximately 52% of site visitors are located outside the United States.
  • The most comprehensive job board for game developers on the web
  • Then largest resume database of game developers - over 17,000  – is utilized by leading game companies as part of their recruitment efforts. (Resume hosting is part of free membership)

Print - Game Developer magazine delivers an elite readership of more than 35,000 professional game development subscribers. Studios, HR professionals, game developers, ad educators count on the Maggie Award winning Game Developer magazine for the most relevant and respected content in the game industry.

Fast Facts

  • 11% of readers are Executive Management (Including HR)
  • 61% of readers describe themselves as Managers with influence on hiring decisions
  • 9% of readers are interested in Education
  • The average subscriber maintains an active library of more than twenty (20) past issues.

The Annual Game Career Guide is ‘a bible for the aspiring game developer’.  Released each June by the publishers of Game Developer magazine, this supplement contains exclusive content, features, an abbreviated listing of game and game related programs around the world.

The Annual Game Career Guide is distributed at leading industry and consumer throughout the year, including Game Developer Conferences (GDC’s) in the United States, Canada, Europe and China.  And download the digital version freely from GameCareerGuide.com.

Sales Contacts

  • Debbie Beam
    Global Account Manager
    East Coast, Europe & Eastern Canada
    Tel: 785.838.7564
    Fax: 516.467.8823
    dbeam@think-services.com