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I'm becoming increasingly angry and frustrated at colleges that offer Game Design Degrees. I learned tonight that students pay on average between $38-77k for their qualifications and they're being horribly let-down by their lecturers and institutions.

I'm becoming increasingly angry and frustrated at colleges that offer Game Design Degrees. I learned tonight that students pay on average between $38-77k for their qualifications and they're being horribly let-down by their lecturers and institutions.

Rovient

Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)

I'm becoming increasingly angry and frustrated at colleges that offer Game Design Degrees. I learned tonight that students pay on average between $38-77k for their qualifications and they're being horribly let-down by their lecturers and institutions.

Iksar

Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)

@Rovient As someone who has read thousands of applications in the last five years and also had a bad first impression of game design degrees, I would now happily recommend them to kids in high school looking for advice on how to get into the industry.

Iksar

Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)

@Rovient Basically every student leaving a game design program leaves with a portfolio of games they worked on and completed with teams of varying sizes. They all have some education in code and are often as or more technical than existing designers.

Iksar

Posted 4 years, 3 months ago (Source)

@Rovient This doesn’t mean they leave school with great design sense, but it does mean they leave with a ton of practical job skills and a reasonable understanding of dev work. This is now the minimum bar, which is so, so, so much higher than it was 5-10 years ago.

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I'm becoming increasingly angry and frustrated at colleges that offer Game Design Degrees. I learned tonight that students pay on average between $38-77k for their qualifications and they're being horribly let-down by their lecturers and institutions. (<a href="https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396694266869555201">None</a>)
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@Rovient As someone who has read thousands of applications in the last five years and also had a bad first impression of game design degrees, I would now happily recommend them to kids in high school looking for advice on how to get into the industry. (<a href="https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396749370679185409">Iksar</a>)
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@Rovient Basically every student leaving a game design program leaves with a portfolio of games they worked on and completed with teams of varying sizes. They all have some education in code and are often as or more technical than existing designers. (<a href="https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396750134222807042">Iksar</a>)
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@Rovient This doesn’t mean they leave school with great design sense, but it does mean they leave with a ton of practical job skills and a reasonable understanding of dev work. This is now the minimum bar, which is so, so, so much higher than it was 5-10 years ago. (<a href="https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396750759216050176">Iksar</a>)
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I'm becoming increasingly angry and frustrated at colleges that offer Game Design Degrees. I learned tonight that students pay on average between $38-77k for their qualifications and they're being horribly let-down by their lecturers and institutions.

@Rovient As someone who has read thousands of applications in the last five years and also had a bad first impression of game design degrees, I would now happily recommend them to kids in high school looking for advice on how to get into the industry. (<a href="https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396749370679185409">Source</a>)

@Rovient Basically every student leaving a game design program leaves with a portfolio of games they worked on and completed with teams of varying sizes. They all have some education in code and are often as or more technical than existing designers. (<a href="https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396750134222807042">Source</a>)

@Rovient This doesn’t mean they leave school with great design sense, but it does mean they leave with a ton of practical job skills and a reasonable understanding of dev work. This is now the minimum bar, which is so, so, so much higher than it was 5-10 years ago. (<a href="https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396750759216050176">Source</a>)
 
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