mGamingWatch learned this week that the ARM University Program is offering a new mobile gaming education kit to address the pressing demand for game technology developers.
The kit has been developed collaboratively with two mobile gaming industry leaders, Chukong Technologies and Rockchip to cover key topics including GPU architecture, OpenGL ES and game development through the use of Cocos2d-x.
“The ARM University Program actively supports curriculum reform and development and we are continuously creating new teaching materials, professional platforms and tools to help our partners respond to an ever-changing industry,” said Khaled Benkrid, director of education for the worldwide university program at ARM. “The mobile gaming market has enormous potential as many games now use mobile as a primary platform. ARM’s new gaming education kit will help propel that growth by enabling students to get early access to industry standard technologies and tools.”
The kit is being introduced as a response to significant changes taking place in the game industry. Driven by the increase in mobile gaming and devices with higher performance and lower power consumption, it has become essential for companies to develop their games from a ‘mobile first’ perspective. Porting PC games to a mobile device will no longer suffice. This transition requires universities to respond quickly by giving young software engineers the skills to meet new industry demand.
We’re told that the kit has already been adopted by Peking University, Beijing Institute of Technology and Xiamen University and is expected to be rolled out across more universities in the future.
To learn more, check out www.arm.com/support/university.
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