Champlain College Offers Degree in Computer Game Design

sp00 writes "Computer-game-loving teens and industry professionals take note: a new Electronic Game and Interactive Development degree at Champlain College in Vermont has been unveiled. The career-oriented college will offer a bachelor's degree in this field starting in the fall, and it's the first degree of its kind in the region." While academic programs for game development aren't new, they're still far from being a standard course offering. It's cool to see that they're catching on.

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Targeted at Teens?

[mahdi13]

Teens Can Now Major in Computer Game Development

Does that mean us thirty-something people will be turned down if we apply? Sure, teens are the #1 candidates for college but the 30+ still like to continue their education...oh that's right, we are suppose to lose interest in games after 30...

Re:Targeted at Teens?

[oskillator]

A 40 year old in the game industry is a very rare sight indeed. This is supposedly because people burn out on the 80 hour weeks during crunch time, which I certainly believe is common, but I have to wonder whether the industry is also biased against hiring older people.

Re:Game Design is best for graduate school

[Mr. Piddle]

On the other hand, I know the military is big on hiring games theory people for their warfare sims. I don't suppose this would help in that department however unless they gave a serious background in that area.

Again, the problem is that the number of warfare simulator developers really is quite small in the grand scheme of things. The reason I am a little peeved by all these high-profile things like game development/space missions/rock stars is that it creates a lot of wannabes to don't realize they need passion first, then smarts. A person shouldn't go into aerospace engineering, for example, if they have no first-hand experience with airplanes. Watching documentaries or reading Popular Mechanics just doesn't cut it.

I would hope that the number of people who enroll in Game Design is a very small group of dedicated people. Unfortunately, I know that a lot of people will probably enroll...you know the Uni knows that too ($$$)..., when most of those kids really just need to get a general-purpose degree in business and go out and get a real job and raise a real family and be satisfied.