Future Game Coders - Online Education or College?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @11:30AM from the a-fork-in-the-road dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "My cousin is about to graduate high school and wants to enter the game industry. I told him to get a day job (possibly as QA in a game studio) and get an online degree like DeVry's Game and Simulation Programming degree or The Art Institute of Pittsburgh's Game Art & Design degree. I have a BS and an MS in Computer Science, and I've only found what I learned mildly useful for my game programming hobby. Should he suck it up and get a 4-year degree, or is taking online courses focused on game development the way to go? Has anybody gotten one of these degrees and done well for themselves?"

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Re:Advice from a professional game software engine by JNighthawk · 2007-03-27 16:13 · Score: 1, Flamebait

"Game" degrees are useless outside the game industry, and a joke and target of pity from within the industry.

Oh? Hm. Guess I should of thought about that before I went and got a bachelor's of Game Development and got hired at a respected game studio. Probably would have saved from this whole "being a professional game developer" thing.

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