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DADIU (Danish: Det Danske Akademi for Digital, Interaktiv Underholdning), als known as National Academy of Digital, Interactive Entertainment, is a collaborative enterprise between different educational institutions offering a specialization in creating computer games. Founded in 2005, it is located in Copenhagen and Aalborg. [1] The secretariat is based at the National Film School of Denmark at Holmen, Copenhagen.
The DADIU program is a specialisation and educates future game developers in different fields of computer game development and video game development. The students participating in DADIU come from universities and art schools in Denmark but are taught a joint curriculum. The DADIU programme is a full-time semester which take place each fall from August to December. Every fall semester DADIU accepts about 100 students to the program out of the many students who apply each year. The DADIU program contains both lectures, workshops, and game productions. During the three game productions with are the most important part of the DADIU program the students are divided into six teams which function as six real game studios. The students are accepted into a specific competence as part of the DADIU program. Every fall semester the DADIU accepted six Game designers, six Game directors, six Project managers, six Level designers, six Audio designers, six Art directors, and a number of Game Programmers, CG Artists, QA & UX Managers, Visual designers, and Animators into the program. [2]
The students thus complete their ongoing studies but also receive a diploma certifying to the industry that they have completed the training at the academy. [3]
The students participating in DADIU come from the following art schools and universities which are all members of the DADIU program: [4] [ needs update ]
Games produced at the academy include [5]
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 2013: [18]
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 2011: [31]
The DADIU Greenhouse program functions as a pre-incubator program for former DADIU students and team who want to publish their games commercially and start a real game business or game studio. The DADIU Greenhouse program help former DADIU students and team half a year. The DADIU Greenhouse program provides meetings with mentors and experts from the games industry. This mentors and experts helps and advice the former DADIU students and team on business, strategy, finance, access to market, resource management, marketing, and PR. [38]