/digipen/ - DigiPenitentiary

Welcome to DigiPen's game design program. Trust me, you're probably a better video game designer than most GD students.

Take up modding, you'd be surprised what you can learn from wrecking other people's shit.

When you play games, pay attention to how they do different things. How do they guide the player through a level? What do they do that are both aesthetically pleasing and highly functional? How do all aspects of the game lend to a "fun" experience?

Yeah, the biggest problem with the Game Design program is the 1.5 years of board game design. They will argue that it's all the same medium, but that's bs, we're no more the same medium as board games than we are of movies.

The higher level GAT classes get better. Most of what I got out of the first 1.5 years was some pretty good tips on how to write a rulebook, which actually does translate fairly well. But, that was all of like 2 or 3 weeks of GAT210.

> learn digital game design?

This may be obvious, but make small games or mods in another game(such as Starcraft or Dota2). Then sift through the comments to find posts where they are calling your game shit for X, Y, Z.

1. Don't go to college for game design.

2. Start modding stuff (Source, Roblox, Minecraft, GMod, Whatever)

3. ???

4. Profit

Similar story here except CS, from what I understand just make shit and think about the shit you're making. ALL you have to do is when you put something in your game think about what effect it will have and what would happen if you change it in different ways. Then change it and see how it is, and have other people play your shit and tell you how awful it is and why. Eventually you'll understand it and you'll have the added bonus of also being a good programmer because you didn't waste your time in a useless degree program. "Game Design" now is much like cinematography in the 1940s, the field hasn't had nearly enough time to really get into the in depth stuff that would justify a degree based on it. At best the GAT classes should just be made into electives but all the good ones right now are locked away behind the shit ones. But the first thing this school needs are a lot more business classes and even a major/minor for it.

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>mentions modding

>mentions roblox and gmod as if they're taken seriously