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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