The Atari Diegesis Festival 2004 (held earlier this month) is an annual festival for creative secondary school students in Victoria, and is organised by the Australian Centre for the Moving image (ACMI).
Footscray City College student Isaac Williams attended the Festival and interviewed David Giles (head of school at the Melbourne campus of The Academy of Interactive Entertainment) about studying game development for mycareer.com.au.
DAVID: To work in the commercial games industry (consoles and high-end PC development), focus on the skill you feel most comfortable with. The programmers we train, and who are hired by the industry, usually have an undergraduate degree and C and C++ programming ability. The arts side is less about having a degree and more about your folio."
It's great read for those of you thinking about studying a game development related course and need to be clued in about the local industry!