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Want To Make Video Games?

Posted by timothy on from the admission-via-deathmatch dept.

Invader Zim writes "Looks like Levelord, of Ritual fame, and some folks at id, and Ensemble Studios have teamed together with Southern Methodist University to create a new school for people that want to work in the video games industry. It's called the Guildhall. Also a story about it at GameTutorials."

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  1. Already another program in the area by Dr.+Blue · · Score: 5, Informative
    With so many good game companies in the area, there's already another place you can study computer game development: the University of North Texas.

    It's called the "LARC", for "Laboratory for Recreational Computing", and was started in 1993. Check it out here.

    The lab is run by a professor (Ian Parberry) who has published a few books on game programming.

  2. Re:Good idea by CableModemSniper · · Score: 5, Informative

    Game testing isn't really the fun-filled job you'd think it would be. You sit there and do one part over and over again. Or you die on purpose. You aren't paid to play the game, your paid to do very specefic things in specefic parts of the game. You're hunting for bugs, not playing for kicks. Just warning you.

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    Why not fork?
  3. Cogswell by azerak · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's another college in northern California that has a game design program. It's called Cogswell Polytechnical College (http://www.cogswell.edu). They're fully acredited and have a Bachelor's degree program for Computer Video Imaging and Computer Science with majors in game design, 2D animation, 3D character animation, video editing, etc. I'm in the game design program there, and I'm having the time of my life and am set to get a job at EA Games this summer.

    The school also has a Game Development Club where many students get together and develop games each semester in the same process that most game companies do. Check out their website: http://www.fuzzywoto.org/
    (it'll soon be changing to www.gameclubworldwide.com)