Man honestly, the only game design course that can get you anywhere is the one Ubisoft is giving in Montreal because they accept only people that are already pretty good and pass their entry test, they hire the what, 2-3 top of the class, and redirect the rest to smaller devs around the area.

Not to brag about my university or anything, but there's a game design program here at Montreal's university(I won't go into the details of Quebec educational system) but it requires a BAC (3 years) before you can apply and you need a portfolio, recommendation letters, and a bunch of other stuff to even get accepted. So it kind of filters out the pimply kids that want to make nintendo games(Hi Bridgeman!).

Anyway, I am doing 2 years in cinema and 1 one year of CS. It will probably get me in the special effects industry until I can try to make it the gaming industry one day.

I had no idea mr. velfarre... you must be the director of your own great game design company to be able to predict the future like that?

We'll see if I'm fucked or not. I don't need you to decide that for me.

man are you really 18? cuz you're posts point to a much lower maturity level 

i just got home from work man.

do you have nothing better to do or what

deciding what to study at university is such a pain in the ass. I take a very Aristotlean approach to learning and the whole formalized system of registering for classes and filling out a major plan is so frustrating because I'd much rather just like... go somewhere with like 3-10 people and one teacher and just talk and discuss things for hours instead of like FOR ONE HOUR AND FORTY EIGHT MINUTES YOU WILL BE LECTURED AND THEN EXPECTED TO REGURGITATE PRESENTED MATERIAL

granted that is not most classes that I have had to take, but I just dont like the way that higher education is structured in general I guess. cause I mean like I want to study in-depth anthropology, linguistics, music, folklore, botany, law, politics, philosophy, culinary arts, archaeology, history, theology and all sorts of other shit, but the university only lets me do so much at once and its kinda blegh

and that doesnt even begin to address the question: what am I going to do with a degree in anthropology and iranian linguistics? lol

nah more like

it was kind of a dumb post but the youre made me think you might not be serious

oh ok

yeah i was. i actually started to make a pretty long post on it but realized it was a waste of time and im about to fall asleep on my keyboard so i just put that.

it happens ya kno

man are you really 18? cuz you're posts point to a much lower maturity level 

man, are you really 18? cuz you are grammar points too a much lower intelligence level




i'm sorry. it had to be done sooner or later, i may as well get it over with.

man, are you really 18? cuz you are grammar points too a much lower intelligence level




i'm sorry. it had to be done sooner or later, i may as well get it over with.

no, it didn't. you're stupid.

Watch your back beasley. Youre gonna get AWPed son

no, it didn't. you're stupid.

congratulations, you've learned english. 

congratulations, you've learned english. 

jesus

what is it about a career in game design that draws so many people to it???? i mean i like to play me a nintendogame every once in a while but I feel like if I had to sit in a cube writing thousands of lines of code to make a character's breasts bounce like she was jumping around on the moon or sit around for 40 hours a week running into every wall in every level of a game trying to find collision flaws I would probably hate videogames forever

what is it about a career in game design that draws so many people to it???? i mean i like to play me a nintendogame every once in a while but I feel like if I had to sit in a cube writing thousands of lines of code to make a character's breasts bounce like she was jumping around on the moon or sit around for 40 hours a week running into every wall in every level of a game trying to find collision flaws I would probably hate videogames forever

it's because the large majority of them don't realize this, that's why


there are a handful of people who will make it but most of them just don't understand it (especially since a lot of them are using rpgmaker, which does the hard practical shit for you, and they don't do thorough testing, they just let other people find the problems as they go, which doesn't cut it in a real company)

my future career choice i dont know

something to do with computers i guess, since im a computer science major at university

theres so much interesting shit you can do with a proper computer science background coupled with perhaps some grad work in other areas that i wonder why do people give a shit about games at all. you could be modeling physics or biology stuff instead rather than detect collisions for your swordsman lv 25

game programers gets the girls

it's because the large majority of them don't realize this, that's why


there are a handful of people who will make it but most of them just don't understand it (especially since a lot of them are using rpgmaker, which does the hard practical shit for you, and they don't do thorough testing, they just let other people find the problems as they go, which doesn't cut it in a real company)

Yeah, I didn't realize that it would be so fucking boring having games design as a job, I am looking for something else to do with electronics and computing though so Computer Science will hopefully fuel that need...