[game_edu] guidance for students and parents

[Roberts, Scott]

Thanks for the suggestion Erin.  Tom Sloper's site is quoted frequently by students on the Game Career Guide's forums, so I think he's doing a great service that's having an effect.  I'll try to contact him for input on this as well.  Linking to sources like his will be helpful, and more evidence that a central source would help.

Dan and I are going to work on the basics and then come back to the group for input.  Along the way if any of you have ideas and suggestions please pass them along to us directly and we'll try to fit everything in.

Dan Carreker  DanC at NarrativeDesigns.com<mailto:DanC at NarrativeDesigns.com>
Scott Roberts  sroberts at CIM.depaul.edu<mailto:sroberts at cti.depaul.edu>

Thanks,
Scott


From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Erin Hoffman
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:57 AM
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv
Subject: Re: [game_edu] guidance for students and parents

In addition to Jeff Ward's article, I like to point to Tom Sloper's site for a wealth of information, some of which has specifically to do with the question of going to a "game school" or a "regular" university, and on evaluating schools:

http://www.sloperama.com/advice/lesson44.htm

I can also say that, having spoken to and spoken with some of the Westwood students (as Sean came here to defend), they're very sharp and certainly of a caliber with game students I've met from other programs. One from the group I spoke with last year contacted me recently with news that he'd gotten his first job in the industry (I'd referred him to a couple of places). I think, in a way, that having to make up for the crummy commercials has forced a quality increase (hi Sean ;) ).

--Erin
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