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You got your free copy as well from Wake Tech...

ZeonicFreak

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> what?! when i went to iD tech camp they taught me how to make a website, make a calculator using JAVA, and edit videos... 8 years later and these kids get to play with the unreal engine and build games? makes me want to be a kid again.

defferoo

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> @cybereality: From a look at their website I don't think iD Tech has any relation to id Software.

Tertiee

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, NC does this for kids in the summer as well.

Doomstink

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> Doesn't iD have their own engine?

cybereality

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> Oh and the camp I think Crecente is referring to is iD Gaming Academy, it's not just a regular iD Tech Camp. For 3 weeks you study game design very intensively.

Squamden

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> I did this camp last year at Stanford. It was awesome! It's amazing how much you learn in a short amount of time. Last year we used Beyond Virtual, so I can't wait to try out Unreal. If any of you guys are serious about getting into game design, this is a great place to start. I'll be back for the follow up course this summer.

Squamden

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> It probably will not be so bad.
EA bought my high school a tech wing and a bunch of computers and cameras and such.
They have huge plaques and stuff
[it is called the EA Wing also]
but it does not change the lesson and it does not make me want Wii Playground more.

Of course, it could all turn into Ender's Game...
or they could make Ender's Game using the Unreal III engine.
... either one is pretty cool.

JoDi

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> I wonder if Epic will provide any special tutorials and curriculum, or if this really just amounts to a donation of a few hundred copies of UT3. Regardless, these camps sound like an interesting idea, and getting modern technology into the kids' hands is a great thing.

dphrygian

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> And now that I submitted the above comment, I realize an important point I left out. The game making program was interesting and let kids make games without doing much thinking, but it also doesn't teach them to do anything that they can use five years from then. The programming class did, so did the video creation class. The point of the class for younger kids was not to teach a skill, but to teach about computers in general. So most of the classes taught something that will continue to be useful, but not the game class. If only they used Flash, or something similar, maybe even as an addition, and taught it to more experienced kids, that would be really useful and fun.

moo083

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> So that's why my ghetto catholic middle school had macs. Now everything makes sense.

Digitalguardian

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> As a former councilor at iD Tech Camp I will agree that some things about the camp is very poorly done. There are many good parts too. I was a councilor at the camp at UC Santa Cruz in 2004. It was its first year so it wasn't quite as crazy as some of the others. I think that because of the limited population of Santa Cruz, it was probably a lot better. The people I worked with were nice and knew what they were talking about. The main problems I had were mainly related to the game development class. We used this crappy and very buggy program that basically made objects and allowed you to set rules for them. This made it simple to make games you might see in NES or SNES in general, and then generated EXEs from them. But as I said, it was buggy, so sometimes a student would ask why something wouldn't work, and all I could say was that the program had a bug. There were many other better ways to do this. Using Unreal Engine could be a good start.

For those kids who have gone and that it was sappy and crazy, you might have gone to the wrong camp. Its all based on the people there and you need good councilors. Try it again, only go somewhere else, maybe somewhere small where all the councilors know everyone's name (like it was in Santa Cruz). Instead of being overwhelmed by the system and the sappiness, you might learn something and have a fun time.

moo083

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> ID tech enforcing epic tech?

hmmmm..

Fyren

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> My son forgets to brush his teeth, how do I expect him to remember how to use UE3? XD LOL.

DigitalHero

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> ID Tech camps sucks. I've attended their camps for 5 years starting when I was in 7th grade. It is severely overpriced and crazy sappy. You don't even want to know about their bloody ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SYSTEM...

I don't recommend it at all, unless the attendee in question is a immature rich kid.

psyburn

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> is the Unreal Engine 3 really that hard to develop for they want kids to do it? w/e. be kinda nice to do if you're into video game development. we are the future...

Akmed

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> let me be the first to say that i attended this iD Tech Camp last summer at CMU in Pittsburgh, where i live.
It was a lot of fun and knowing that they'll be using UE3 i just might sign up for another year.

BigTuna442

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> Typo: Interesting should be interested.

Article: I think it's a good idea, both dev and business-wise. That way if the kids do turn out to be developers and/or designers, then they not only have training, but have training on Epic's engine.

Sqwerell

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> No relation to id Software, right?
It'd be silly to have them promoting the competition's engine.

williamKezmarr

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> iD Tech Camps?...

I'm also unsure what they meant by throwing out "couch potato" characterization. Unless game modding requires heavy lifting.

geminas01

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> did you mean "It hooks kids when they're young."?

why don't we hook the kids on phonics instead ;)

BigChiefSmokem

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> When I used macs at school as a kid it only made me think " Why does PC have all the cool games?" quite the opposite of hooking me.

mikeluisortega

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> Aww, I took a video game course at one of these camps many years ago... but we just used some crappy scripting engine.

Rendon

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> "It hooks kids when their young." <- What's wrong with that statement? Editor FTW.

Hickeroar

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> That idea actually seems pretty cool. Too bad I'm not math or programming oriented.

Though I have to say that Apple's "Macs for kids to hook 'em young" idea sucked.

When I was in Kindergarten, they had one of those free Macs, and it sucked so badly, and ran so slowly that I actually preferred Windows 95 and its constant crashing to the Mac. Not saying that Macs suck, just the free ones.

Kirbytheslayer: In-Kirby XMB

]]> <![CDATA[Unreal Engine Invades Kids' Summer Camp]]> mmm fragged kids for lunch.

Para

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