[game_edu] Here goes the first shoe . . .

[Dan Rosenthal]

I'm not sure I agree with this. Keeping up to date on what's going on  
in the competing games elsewhere in the market is a valuable skill.  
It's one thing to be taught, for instance, quest design; it's another  
to be taught it, and then think critically about it when you go home  
and do a quest in WoW that night. Where would we be if we trained a  
bunch of kids how to program for games, but told them we don't want  
them actually to play games?

There's always going to be people trying to make it in life without  
trying. The people I'd want to work with are the ones that are able to  
learn everything from school AND balance their own personal gameplay  
at the same time -- time management is a critical skill often ignored  
by educational institutions.

-Dan
On Apr 15, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Robert Farr wrote:


> - MMO "addiction". :)

>

> Hehe, yeah, someone dropped out during the first year to "play WoW",  

> which

> may or may not have been a waste of ability, there's always going to  

> be a

> number of people who are chaff and would never thrive in the games  

> industry

> I won't know myself until I've been through a crunch but it's a risk  

> I'm

> willing to take.

>

> I suppose one of the ways I have in mind is just to provide  

> information on

> community & knowledge hubs that relate to various different aspects  

> of games

> development, like the SIGs in IGDA, various sites like Gamasutra,  

> sloperama

> (I'm sure you know all of these), its up to people then to take the

> initiative and dig around to see what're in these hubs.

>

> Many students probably aren't even aware of EA spouse and Quality of  

> Life

> issues within industry, etc etc

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org]  

> On Behalf

> Of Andrew Armstrong

> Sent: 15 April 2009 11:41 PM

> To: IGDA Game Education Listserv

> Subject: Re: [game_edu] Here goes the first shoe . . .

>

> Robert Farr wrote:

>> I find myself wondering if more could be done to instil a 'go out and

> learn'

>> mindset in students, maybe often-times that is what's missing.

> I think for a lot of students, binning World of Warcraft subscriptions

> etc. might help ;) At least that's some of the horror stories I've  

> heard

> - MMO "addiction". :)

>

> Going out and learning needs something interested to get into -  

> external

> projects on the web perhaps, modding maybe (Especially if you're doing

> design), doing it with fellow students in a club...

>

> Any course probably should encourage it, but it can't exactly  

> structure

> that kind of additional work and self-teaching...just wouldn't really

> work to everyone's tastes, and some people just do much more work on

> their class projects so they don't have time for other things.

>

> Andrew

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