Game Design and Development

[TheGeek]

It's time for me to start looking for colleges. Im interested in Game Design and Development. What are the best schools to be looking at?

 

[Transition]

The school of fat and un-employed nerds.

 

[Mr Pamper]

Originally posted by: Transition
The school of fat and un-employed nerds.

:laugh:

 

[aswedc]

Game Design: Chances are one in a billion you'll actually get to design a game. Forget about this.

Game Development: Look for a good Computer Science program.

 

[Drakkon]

Whatever you do DONT go to ITT...their program doesn't prep you AT ALL to work in a real company (at least none that have applied with me have shown me anything...barely know stuff that i had down as a freshman in college)

 

[Albis]

MIT students get recruited often to game companies. I know of ppl there that interned with blizzard and EA before.

so if you have the grades and extracurricular, check out MIT

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
Whatever you do DONT go to ITT...their program doesn't prep you AT ALL to work in a real company (at least none that have applied with me have shown me anything...barely know stuff that i had down as a freshman in college)

You are evaluating an institute based on a few short interviews?? Get real.

I know plenty of ignorants that somehow managed to graduate fairly renowned colleges, but allowing that to bemisrch my perception of their respective colleges would be a fallacious reasoning endeavor on my part.

 

[Rage187]

Hmm, think about this before you do it:



1. Loooooooonnnnnggggg hours, weeks and weeks and no days off.
2. Decently craptastic salary. You make a living
3. Project after project, don't believe them when they say there will be decompression time. For every project thats going out the door there was a project manager who didn't have any resources and doesnt mind working people coming off another project to death. Get ready to hear "So what do they have you working on?" I usually do not answer and stear them towards my team lead.
4. Lack of women in the industry, you'll see what I'm talking about.
5. Everyone in positions of power has a type A personality, ok for me since I'm type A as well 🙂
6. Outsourced people have hygene problems. <--I bet they think we stink too.

Good things

1. Its fun to some degree.
2. I like the people I work w/ since they all fit in my age/background, we hang out and play cards/lan partys/drink/road trips.
3. E3!!!
4. Your making games!


You just have to love it, even when your there for 20 hours a day.

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: Drakkon
Whatever you do DONT go to ITT...their program doesn't prep you AT ALL to work in a real company (at least none that have applied with me have shown me anything...barely know stuff that i had down as a freshman in college)

You are evaluating an institute based on a few short interviews?? Get real.

I know plenty of ignorants that somehow managed to graduate fairly renowned colleges, but allowing that to bemisrch my perception of their respective colleges would be a fallacious reasoning endeavor on my part.

no i actually hired one...interviewed 5....met with a professor from there and went in to evaluate the classes he was teaching and his program in game design and development....asked him where it was going and what he was headed on doing and even he admitted they were behind the times and didnt go into much into the programming structures. Their NATIONAL program as listed and described to me by the dean was dedicated more to the web and advertising game development (the stupid little things on web pages) than on something like a quake/warcraft game.

 

[TheGeek]

My other potential career is computer hardware engineering. What are some good schools for that?

 

[TheGeek]

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