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Re: BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
If the college is not regionally accredited it will get very hard - almost impossible - to transfer to other colleges. It will also be hard to do a masters degree in the US. I would really recommend against any school that is only nationally accredited, no matter how good they actually are. Within the US it just has too… -
Re: BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
I think your choice should depend what you want to do. One route isn't really better than another one to end up in the games industry, especially not if you end up doing something you don't like. Working in games is very exciting, at least from my point of view when compared to other jobs, yet it also is very often also… -
Re: BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
As far as I know, no, but you get a good amount of free electives and major electives that you can fill up with programming classes. I'd look at the current curriculum, because it changes almost every year. I know a few people that know quite a bit of multiple coding languages and I'm pretty sure they have taken some of… -
Re: BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
You guys are awesome, thanks for giving all this advice! That extra credits vid was especially enlightening. One distinction I'd like to make, that hasn't been brought up yet, is that from the schools I looked at, there were two types of Game Design programs: Bachelors in Arts or Science, one having more to do with… -
Re: BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
200K is a ton of money to spend on an education, especially if it is something so focused as game design. I go to a little private art school in San Jose for almost a quarter of that cost, and the teachers here have industry experience all over the place. The problem is always what are you going to do if you cannot find a… -
BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
Greetings polycounters! I've been looking around at colleges for a degree in Game Design. I think I've narrowed it down to these two: Either Digipen: https://www.digipen.edu/academics/degree-programs/ba-game-design/course-sequence/ or SCAD: http://www.scad.edu/interactive-design-and-game-development/ I figure someone on… -
Re: BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
Hey Fusobotic, i recently graduated from scad so i feel i should share my opinion on this matter. I dont know a lot about digi-pen and i respect the student projects that come out of that school. I can say this though. Scad is a fully accredited university with many many options for majors. I did graduate with a degree in… -
Re: BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
I want to add that any games or 3d program having programming classes isn't in any way comparable to a CS program. C++ (or any other programming language) relates to computer science like 3ds Max or Maya relate to 3D. They are tools. If you read the stickied thread carefully then you know that you want to learn principles… -
Re: BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
I went to SCAD back in early 2000s, I never regretted it. The core traditional classes were great and I was exposed to a ton of different art fields, the "game" classes back then were pretty weak, being taught by professors with hardly any industry experience - I would hope that's changed since then. But with any school… -
Re: BA Game Design Digipen vs SCAD
Totally not worth it. I went to SCAD for a semester and unless you go to the Atlanta campus I'd stay the hell away from SCAD. The Savannah area is pretty terrible. Also, 200k in debt? Hell no that shit ain't worth it, unless you like ridiculously high monthly payments or have rich parents that is the dumbest idea ever. I…
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