Justification of the GameHub activity at the University

– in Ukraine we see increase number of IT-companies, separate divisions, branches and number of employees ;

– in recent years digital game industry with exported main results of the manufacturing sector are developed;

– demand for skilled of IT professionals exceeds the supply, so that the employer puts high demands on employees and the level of skills and specialized skills of graduates do not meet these requirements, as is mostly theoretical;

– in Ukraine there is high demand on software specialist: mobile, flash, .NET, Java and web-programs; programming C/C ++ and .NET programming;

– in Ukraine we see increase demand for Designer games (gameplay designer, game designer of the concept of the game, a game technical designer, technical writer), programmer (GUI programmer, logic game programmer), 3D-environment specialist, animator;

– Employment centers do not conduct a comprehensive retraining of specialists in the game industry, limited to the disciplines of computer programming and design;

– ukrainian universities are not trains specialists in the game industry.

That mismatch between the demand of the IT-industry and offers education towards training specialists has many causes, one of which is the need for communication between specialists in human and technical areas. At the same time, the ONPU has not only institutes/faculties with specialties, but has a separate Faculty of Humanities, one of the specialty training which is “cultural”, and a separate Institute of Business, Economics and Information Technologies, one of the specialties which are business economics and marketing.

Through these educational opportunities ONPU can be successfully establishes center for training specialists for the IT in digital game field.

From 2016 already exists Master specialization training “Simulation of physical processes of computer games”, which is based on bachelor “Applied Mathematics”.  And this specialization in the future can appear several more considering economic and humanitarian components and component of software computer games.

Creation of training and production center will link different areas of training in a single process in accordance with the actual production cycle of computer games, which now exists in the IT industry.

Priority activities planned at the regional GameHub

2) training of teachers for teaching of process of computer games developing;

3) training of students of IT-specialties and other professions related to design games, art and marketing for process of computer games developing;

4) retraining of unemployed people in the center of employment and ATO-veterans for certain specializations process of developing computer games;

5) training of members of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the department “Computer Science” for development process of computer games in the form of individual work and workshops.

The principles of the GameHub organization at the University

2) The principle of unity of purpose and leadership – the appointment of managers to coordinate interdependent activities;

3) Principle of development – evolution as gradual quantitative and qualitative change:

– the emergence and development laboratories;

– development and improvement of disciplines from computer games;

– preparation of an increasing number of teachers;

– training increasing number of students, schoolchildren and unemployed veterans ATO;

Features integration in the educational process:

– master cources in Department of Physics and Department of Applied Mathematics;

– course work and diploma work under the current curriculum as a part of which is the development of programs to be targeted exactly to the program was computer game;

– GameHub laboratory as part of computer systems institute will be used for work associated with the development of computer games;

– Department of postgraduate doctoral studies and research will monitor the progress of scientific research theses related to the development of computer games for specialty “Information Technology”.