Phil Cook wrote:
> I think it was in Edge magazine one of the developers lashed into these
> 'cool' games programming lessons saying they were a waste of time and
> you'd be better of with a Mathematics course and plain old Computer
> Science. They want people who can produce path-finding algorithms and
> other AI routines not have a degree in level design, you can get the
> equivalent of that just from playing games a lot.
Wait - there's a course you can take that just involves playing games a
lot? SIGN ME UP! :-D
(But yeah, I'm sure *real* game design isn't nearly as interesting as it
sounds. Listening to the commentary on HL2:EP2, most of it sounds pretty
mundane.)
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