DADIU

DADIU (The National Academy of Digital, Interactive Entertainment) founded in 2005 is an academy located in Copenhagen and Aalborg in Denmark that educates students in the creation of computer games. The DADIU program is a collaboration between different universities and art schools in Denmark.

The DADIU Education and Program
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.

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.

The DADIU Members
The students participating in DADIU come from the following art schools and universities which are all members of the DADIU program:


 * Aalborg University (Interactive Digital Media, Computer Science and Medialogy)
 * Aarhus University (Audio Design and Digital Design)
 * IT University of Copenhagen
 * Technical University of Denmark
 * The National Film School of Denmark
 * The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
 * TRUEMAX Academy
 * University of Copenhagen (DIKU - Computer Science and Film and Media Studies)
 * VIA University College (The Animation Workshop)

The DADIU games from 2015

 * Game Changer
 * Space Bears
 * Uprise
 * Spoken
 * Blobbers
 * Clockwork Dream

The DADIU games from 2014
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 2014:


 * Dragon Journey
 * Let's Raid
 * Scouts
 * Wonder Wool
 * Greedy Grablins
 * Cloud

The DADIU games from 2013
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 2013:
 * My Fear and I
 * Sun Towers
 * Saviour of Asgard
 * Punish Panda
 * A Darker Shade of Red
 * The Printer Guy

The DADIU games from 2012
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 2012:


 * Horizon
 * Trail of Regret
 * Hotah
 * Cantrip
 * Ion
 * Little Barker

The DADIU games from 2011
The following games have been produced in connection with the DADIU program in 2011:


 * Back to Bed
 * Wake Up Clone
 * A Mother's Inferno
 * Distorpia
 * Blackwell
 * Hell Driver

The DADIU Greenhouse program
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.

The Award-winning games made during DADIU or by DADIU alumni
Some of the award-winning games made by the students are:
 * Back to Bed - SpilPrisen 2015 - The Jury's Special Mention
 * Blendimals- SpilPrisen 2015 - The Showcase award