Electronic games now jobs haven

AdelaideNow... Electronic games now jobs haven: "Meanwhile, the first intake of overseas students has entered the Entertainment Technology Centre, the new Adelaide division of U.S.-based Carnegie Mellon University. ETC director John Buchanan says opportunities for digital media artists are growing in SA with the 'industry in Australia about to take off'."

That may be the overseas interest and investment here but our local games market and digital media is quite healthy. We have always liked technology and geeks are very at home here and part of our landscape. We know them and love them. There is an affinity with technology but we have been game players from way back and even board games and other toys have a big market here. There a a number of people in Adelaide that just like to play and will make it an intellectual pursuit.Perhaps because we are a smaller community and are not lost in big industry and heavy commercial interests. Perhaps because we have a richness of arts here and that inpires us to be creative and perhaps because we like to develop interests outside the norm which require detailed thinking and a lot of patience. We are very patient and there is nothing to rush us on and lose us. Electronic games have always been popular but not in an obsessive sense nor in an isolated sense. It's very much a sharing activity where kids will challenge each other or they'll play against each other in a friendly way. Pitting your wits, that's what we like.