Careers and Education in Game Design

[Depression Moon]

Hey everyone. I've been taking a game design class since August 25th at my local community college because I have intent to work in that field. It took me a while to find out that this school had offered a game design certificate and I almost missed the chance to be in it.

Now that I'm finally in it, I have some mix reactions about this course. For one this is the first time my college is having this class and you could tell if you were there. We actually haven't done much work in this class yet. We actually haven't even started building a video game yet. Our class was divided into seven groups that we call companies that are each run be a CEO. I'm not one of those guys. Anyway, what we've mostly been doing is writing down our plans for the game with storyboard, art, and the script which I'm in charge of doing.

Our instructor showed us this software called Scratch that's what we're supposed to be using. On the website it said that it's aimed for children and from what I saw on the website, it's to make boring flash games.

We had a guy come in who made flash games too to talk to us one day. He told us about the process of making those games, keeping your team interested and stuff like that. He didn't show us any gameplay of any his games, but he did show us his concept art for a solitaire game he made.

Besides from that we hadn't done much of anything, well I guess that's not true. My teacher has been out several times too and whenever he was out we played Street Fighter IV. YouTube - STREET FIGHTER 4: BISON (John) VS RYU (Tim)

But what I came here to do was make games and I just found out that we won't be going to the next couple of classes. I'm serious about getting into the industry and I want to work my ass off making games to prepare. I'm thinking I went the wrong school, but I guess it's too late right now.


This thread is for anyone else that has experiences with game design or game programming classes and to discuss any interest you have in it.