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The Games Academy is the oldest German and European school dedicated to the development of video games. Besides QANTM and Supinfogame, it is one of the few institutions in Europe that are entirely focused on video game development. The Games Academy is a privately held vocational school, founded in 2000 by Thomas Dlugaiczyk in Berlin. In 2007, a second establishment was opened in Frankfurt am Main. In autumn 2019, at the world's largest games fair, Gamescom, the Games Academy and the Mediadesign Hochschule (MD.H) announced their merger. In this context, there was a change in the managing director; since 2020, Martin Adam has been in charge of the Games Academy.

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Rungestraße, Berlin Mitte

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