We offer great discounts to Educational establishments on all our game making products and our software is used in hundreds of locations around the world. Schools, Colleges, Universities and other teaching establishments can all benefit from our discounted deals. Whether you already run games development courses or are thinking of adding them to you curriculum, we'd like to introduce you to the proven educational advantages of our products - and to a new deal that we have just brought in specifically for our education clients. For a one off payment of only $999 we can offer you the following software for your IT Lab:

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"I started using DarkBASIC in our Logic and Program Design class two years ago. This is the first programming class most of these students will take so I knew we needed to move the curriculum to something more exciting. I needed something that would hold the interest of the young student and not intimidate the non-traditional student. DarkBASIC allows me to teach basic computer programming concepts in a much more interesting arena." Time McFerron, Associate Professor CIS/CSC, Aims Community College, Greely, Colorado

"We chose Dark GDK to support our new Games Technology degree programme. Dark Basic is a good introduction to a game API (middleware) and it provides students with an early opportunity to develop a game scenario in their first year. As Dark GDK uses C/C++ it provides a useful introduction to a game API while also complementing modules in C/C++ for students' future work. The software is favourably priced." Barry Dean, Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Technology, University of West of England

"I chose Dark Basic Professional as a teaching tool primarily because it's in Basic and our course has no prerequisites for students to be able to program. It has functions/methods that enable you to structure your programs almost as well as in newer CASE-tools; it is based on DirectX - an environment that the students probably will meet later on; it is capable of handling a lot of different formats from other third party software products like MAX, and the engine supports most of the latest 3D engine features" Steve Dahlskog, Associate Lecturer in Computer Science, Malmo University, Sweden.

Not only is Dark Basic Professional a great solution for home development, but it's great for use in schools and universities too. Hundreds of institutes are already teaching games creation and programming with Dark Basic Professional and we continue to explore new technologies to help train the next generation of programmer. If you are working in education, you may have heard of the Promethean technologies currently available such as the Activexpression solution which offers teachers the ability to ask questions of their students, who in turn can immediately respond using hand-held devices. Thanks to Dark Basic Professional support, you can create your own Promethean application in a matter of minutes. Check out our free Activexpression example and for more information visit www.prometheanplanet.com