College degrees are more than useless, they’re harmful |
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BY Matthew Razak August 25th, 2008 |
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Are you reading this while taking a break from packing up to head off to college where you hope to study and learn how to become a game designer? Stop - now. Don’t waste your money because you’re just going to end up woefully unprepared. So says the DailyMail in a recent article where they revealed that college grads were coming out of college seriously unprepared to work in the gaming industry. Despite the number of courses for game design degrees doubling in the UK, only four of these courses have been approved to actually fulfill the needs of someone going into that field.
In fact it’s so bad that Jamie MacDonald, the vice-president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios Europe can’t remember the last time he employed someone from them. Yea, not a good sign if you’ve already dropped a boat load of money on a fancy degree, especially when the story follows up with David Braben of Frontier Developments studio saying he was “shocked and surprised” at how little some graduates knew. Looks like there is an even more useless major than English in town.
August 25th, 2008
at 11:47 am
Getting a degree in game design or whatever isn’t THAT horrible, unless you let the responsibility of taking care of your own future fall into the hands of the college.
They teach you the skills, not the trade. I doubt any college actually prepares you for real life, so IMO (if you have the $$$,) go to the school and use their very nice equipment to learn all you can, while constantly creating, designing and experimenting with things. Then you’ll have a portfolio to show people, not your piece of paper with writing on it (a degree). Otherwise, if you’re able to teach yourself… teach yourself and apply it ASAP.
August 25th, 2008
at 12:14 pm
Man thats suck, i guess you should start off as a Game tester and work your way up, experience would be games that you played and certain graphic software you can get your hands on, espeically with Mac computers. *winks*
August 25th, 2008
at 12:57 pm
YES!!! Go English Degrees!! I freakin ru… oh, wait.
August 25th, 2008
at 2:09 pm
A lot of people probably study this to open their own business later on.. Then I think school is a good way to teach you some business/gaming.