Colleges

Around here, I get that the general concensus is to go to a 4 year college and get a degree in computer science first, and then think about game programming degrees.
The CS degree will benefit you more overall if you don''t get into game programming. And I can almost guarantee that you will be a better programmer if you study computer science in depth. From what I''ve heard, the game schools don''t teach computer science in depth.

Well, Basically your 2 big options are Digipen, located in Redmond Washington, and Fullsail, located in Florida(Pretty sure, but not 100%). There are also quite a few other schools that offer, but do not specialize in gaming related fields.

I am a digipen student, and I started the 2-year programming degree this year. I''ve found the programming and CS coarses to be really good in my oppinion, perhaps the math classes are somewhat lacking in delivery, but not content. I can''t really speak for fullsail, but what I''ve read in a recent gamedev.net article by a fullsail dropout''s experience personally made me glad I didn''t go there. Check out the article for yourself, I''ll see if I can link you.

If you have any specific questions you can email me. I believe my email should be in my profile.

PS- I agree with Cold_Steel, it may be benifitial to get a CS degree first, depends on how much you already know. Digipen dows cover alot of CS ground though. Again, can''t speak for fullsail, but I don''t believe they cover CS as much.

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/business/features/fullsailfailure/

Thats teh link to the fullsail article. Its still on the main gamedev.net page also.

BTW, I appologize for the wierd double-post, my nets been acting up lately. Maybe a mod can remove the anonomous one. [Done]

[edited by - Magmai Kai Holmlor on March 5, 2003 11:46:16 PM]