[gameprogrammer] Re: GAME School
- From: "Kevin Jenkins" <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:31:27 -0700
I think a game programming school can be beneficial for a game programming
job. But you might want to think farther ahead in your future. A degree in
CS is a qualification for most programming jobs. If you wanted to work at
Intel for example, the specific education you get for game programming
probably won't give you as broad of a base as a CS or SE degree and they may
not accept it as equivalent.
Game programming can be great fun and a great job if you find a good
company. Unfortunately, all but one of the companies that I have worked for
treat programmers as... well programmers. The upper management didn't share
the fun parts of making the game and didn't seriously consider any other
group's input. This is probably how you will wind up, and in my opinion it
doesn't make sense to work for such a company. Why assume the risk, low
pay, long hours, and pressure of working for a game company without the fun
part?
Even if you find a good company, many jobs are being outsourced to the
lowest bidder, such as India, Russia, etc. It's much harder to find a job
than even a three years ago and what is left is less desirable.
The path I took was to get a degree in SE, and at the same time teach myself
what I needed to know to program games. I got enough fundamentals to get my
first job. The only thing I would change if I could go back in time would
be to pay more attention in certain of the classes I thought were useless at
the time (esp. linear algebra and unix internals). I'm glad I didn't go to
a game programming school, because with such poor job security I'm glad I
have the credentials to work outside the gaming industry if I need to.
----- Original Message -----
From: "tristan drago" <tdrago19@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:59 PM
Subject: [gameprogrammer] GAME School
> I feel strong about going to UAT (university of technology) in tempe az.
They give you an option between which classes you choose for your bachlors.
for instance they offer both game desgin and game programming. Now i have
the choice to select 70% game programming 30% game designing, i can do this
also like 60-40 50-50 etc. Now I"ve been reasearching on becoming a game
programmer for a couple of years now, ive decided to go for it. is there
advice i can have about the class difficulty? and about the job in itself?
anything please!......thankyou. ps. UAT seems like a good school....what
you say? and should i just go 100% game programming?
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Tristan Drago
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