Iphone game course school hopes for NDA reprieve

GAME DEVELOPERS INTERESTED in coding for the Holy Handset of Cupertino might be interested to learn that Australian-based multimedia college Qantm is launching the first ever Iphone Games Developer course.

Based in trendy Islington, the course runs alongside the broader game design and development courses offered by the college.

With the games industry coining an estimated $4 billion anually, and the Apple App Store already having topped 100 million downloads worldwide, we can see why some people might be willing to give up their evenings and weekends – not to mention £4,000 – to learn the secrets of Apple's shiny new toy.

And as we all know, Apple likes to keep its secrets pretty close to its chest, so we wondered how the college was going to get around Club Cupertino's cast Iron NDA clauses which were built into the EULA for the Iphone Software Development Kit. Clauses which prevent any kind of disclosure of the content of the kit or the methods used to devlop Iphone software. The kind of disclosures you might expect to take place in... oh I don't know... a classroom, perhaps?

Nic Oliver at Qantm told us, "We're working really closely with Apple on this course and they are being very supportive. We're aware that the current NDA is quite restrictive but we're hoping that by the time the course starts, we will either have a new NDA written specifically for us, or that the general NDA will have been updated. [You heard it here first folks].

It looks like the Aussie company is using the Brits as lab rats for this little experiment as, following the London launch, the course will become available at at Qantm centres in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. µ

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