And lo on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:44:10 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> 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.)

Apparently it's the same with being a game tester, repeating the same  
section over and over again in various minor different ways until it  
breaks.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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