Game Academy: how to get your dream job? Play games!
Every second person in the UK plays video games. Many games demand complex problem solving, active learning and decision-making, and ask players to manage teams, resources and adversity.
Game Academy is a new start-up tech venture. We enable players to make the most of their game play in the real world.
We have carried out extensive research into the value of commercial games to employability and development of meta-skills — for example, Civilization’s call for skills in strategy, League of Legends: team coordination.
We have created a first dataset based upon the profiles of thousands of players on the Steam platform, linked these to CVs and found first correlation between the likelihood of particular careers and playing particular games.
And we have looked into the needs of employers now and in the future and found that many of the skills that many gamers use every day in every way are aligned perfectly with the skills demand of the future.
Game Academy is a ‘sidecar companion’ to gamers.
Our new platform enables players to see their talent in new ways through an unique analytics tool.
We offer online courses in the skills of the future that allow learners to play the games that they love, invite self-reflection and match real-life situations with in-game drama.
And we provide gamers the chance to convert their in-game talent into real world opportunity, directing them to outstanding employers and educational providers with whom we have unique relationships.
Effective teaching of future skills is expensive and challenging in class, through MOOCs and retraining.
Many gamers know they’re talented — but don’t know that that talent has real currency in the real world.
Game Academy is the gamers’ new, most trusted, most intelligent ‘sidecar’ companion. We reach for the likes of Fortnite, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Football Manager and Assassin’s Creed, mine them for the skills of the future and enable game players to capitalise upon their unique game play credentials.
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