Gaming Colleges/Institutes in India

India has been focusing on emerging technologies like Video Games, Simulations, online apps etc... now. There is lot of demand in the market for some one who persue a degree or relevent knowledge in game production / programming / art. Since it is a very new technology for us their are only a very few colleges or institutes that give a good level of knowledge for the candidates. Some of the institutes which maintain good infrastructure are:

• Image College of Arts and Animation Technology ( ICAT ) - http://www.icat.ac.in/
• Zee Institute of Creative Arts ( ZICA ) - http://www.zica.org/
• International Institute of gaming and animation ( IIGA ) - http://www.iiga.in/
• Asian Institute of Gaming and Animation ( AIGA ) - http://www.aiga.in/
• Picasso Animation and Gaming College - http://www.picasso.co.in/
• Global Institute of Gaming and Animation - http://www.giga.ac.in/
• Aakriti Institute of Animation and Gaming - http://www.aakritiinstitute.com/
• Global School of Gaming and Animation - http://www.animation.globalschool.co.in/

for more information visit the relevent web links specified.

It's not recommended complsory to do a gaming course but taking up so in a good college helps in understanding the basics before going into production.

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Essence of Maths in Gaming ( chapter 2 ) for beginners

It's quite clear to most of all that gaming is just a logic written and driven by means of simple math calculations. Games is all about calculations, to meet points, to achieve a target, to meet constraints etc.... Every component of gaming has maths involued in greater portions. So, one should be good at math basics before starting game programming.
Dimensions, positions, values, logics etc... are all actual entities that keep calculating through out game while visuals give you moke or representation of that. Knowledge on the following is very crucial to begin in game programming.

• Geometry
• Vectors
• Matrices
• Algebric Equations
• Calculus ( not complesory )
• Permutations and combinations ( not complesory )

Geometry helps in defining the visual entity into math formula. Vectors help in defining the position, scale and particularly the direction in the 2d/3d game space. Matrix format is generally used to store the actual vector datas of the visual game entity. Algebra is used in defining specified paths, tracks etc... rest are mostly used in defining / writting the game AI nature to create smartness.

So we strongly recommend people to have good grip on this topics before stepping into game programming.

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