college game development class?!

[Tom_leonardsson]

Hi, I was googling and I found this like class you go to in college called game development,what will I lern programming design,concept?

thanks!

[k1net1k]

I can tell you what most people will probably tell you on this forum.

"Game design courses are bullshit, do a CS/Engineering degree. You will learn more, and anything can be applied to game programming"

if you want to learn game design, play some bad games
make a board game. a lot of the same mechanics apply, and they are incredibly fast to prototype (some paper and scissors and a pen)
or watch youtube videos of community respected game designers.

[Light-Dark]

I can tell you what most people will probably tell you on this forum.

"Game design courses are bullshit, do a CS/Engineering degree. You will learn more, and anything can be applied to game programming"

if you want to learn game design, play some bad games
make a board game. a lot of the same mechanics apply, and they are incredibly fast to prototype (some paper and scissors and a pen)
or watch youtube videos of community respected game designers.

I agree go computer science or engineering you dont want to learn things like java or C# for game development, what you want to learn is C++.

[k1net1k]

its not the language they teach (although it may be different) its the level of depth they go into and the principles you learn. game development courses are often a little bit of code, a little bit of 3d, a little bit of art etc.

any half decent game will have at least 1 programmer and 1 artist, its rare to have a single person who can master both of these things.

[Falco Girgis]

"Game design courses are bullshit, do a CS/Engineering degree. You will learn more, and anything can be applied to game programming"

This. It doesn't get any truer than this.