RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In the wake of the success of the games sector, Brazil gained its first digital games studio school in Latin America. The facility is located in Tijuca, in the northern part of Rio de Janeiro. In addition to teaching game design, the school provides a professional studio, where students develop projects professionally for the market, whether in gaming, 3D modeling, or other project areas.
The Zion network’s Gaming department coordinator, Rogério Félix, explains that, as a result, students can obtain a financial return on the area they are studying. “They can monetize what they study.” According to Félix, the studio school has an “entrepreneurial streak. It works as if it were a startup. They learn and, simultaneously, they also have the opportunity to do business, because they learn about the daily routine of a studio.”
So far, 600 students are enrolled, but the school has a capacity for 2,000. Students are divided into classes of thirty people and lessons are held daily, from 8 AM to 10 PM. Rogério Félix clarified that courses run twice a week. In this pioneering facility, students learn everything from the development of a board game to the production of games for new technologies, such as virtual reality and augmented reality.