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EA Starts Gamedev Program
mrseigen writes "CNN is reporting that EA has opened a game program at USC. It is the first official game development education. Yeah, right."
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A real job to steal game ideas!
Do they assign 80 hours of homework a week to students? I mean, they want to make it realistic right?
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... they sure as hell aren't teaching web development. The site looks horrible in Firefox.
Hmmm....a degree program run by Electronic Arts-
It's a 4-year degree, but you're required to finish the classwork in 6 months. BUT, you can pass with an "F" as long as you filled in every blank on the tests.
After all. Students are paying to work for them. Not much difference between that and the EA employee benefits.
EA is heavily in development of the most anticipated game this decade.
SimSlaves debut release will capture frustration, bad HR practices and overworked employees at their worst. You thought your pointy haired boss was bad, wait until you can see what an evil HR dept and Development sweatshoppe can do!
"I've called you here today to talk about your thesis. I know your thesis on identity and translocality in European RPG's 1987 - 1997 is almost finished, but it lacks a certain something. How can I say this? We think it will focus better if we sex it up a bit. Don't give me that look. I'm your thesis advisor and I'm advising you to do what I say or we'll boot your ass out. Throw out what you've done and switch to lascivious female vampires in Terminal Reality developed console games, 2000 - 2004. That's right, throw it out. That's right 2000 to 2004. I don't care what year Bloodrayne shipped, just do it.
Don't forget, it needs to be done in three more days to be ready for the holiday season, and you can't afford to fail your first submission.
Stop that. Stop crying. Here, have a tissue. That will be five cents."
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Dude! 3 GHz RAM! Talk about blowing the memory latency gap out of the water! I'm at the wrong school.
You know...I think we need to get a few more people in here to mention Digipen.
I read your post and started checking off the things in that list that I actually have.
Background in literature and drama/theater (they kept trying to recruit me again for productions when I got to college, but I had no time), I grock music theory though I never got into the advanced stuff (even used to play. I miss that and want to get into it again at some point), studied German (I'm a polyglot though I've lost a lot of it because of disuse. However, aparently I am truly amusing after a few drinks. Takes a team of my friends to translate), fenced for 3 years in college and trained in kung fu and muay thai before that, and I'm a science geek (primarily chem with some biochem and physics).
The mildly amusing upshot of all of this is that I frequently get accused of looking like a bouncer or hitman and sounding like a professor by the people I work with. Of course, I also get refered to as the resident ninja because of my wardrobe and the fact that I just seem to disappear without a sound.
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.