[game_edu] ESA Foundation Computer and Video Game Scholarship Program

[Taghavi-Burris, Akram]

Your right they aren't exactly the same. Our program I would say, in that case is a design program, our core course include Evolution of Video Game Technology, which covers history of games, rules of games and planning of games, while the Game Development and Design concepts focuses on game play and how events and and actions work with in a game. Game Level design puts all these concepts together to build an unreal level.
I hope that makes more sense. Our program is new and was kind of put together before I got there, but I really want to be with it on terminology. I want companies to take our program seriously and for students to be able to level our school and get a job.

Thanks again for the comments.

-- Ms. Akram Taghavi-Burris
    Professor of Computer Aided Technology
    Program Director of  CAT :  Game Design

   Oklahoma City Community College
   7777 South May Ave
   Oklahoma City , Oklahoma 73159

   ataghaviburris at occc.edu
  405.682.1611 x 7498
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From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Ian Schreiber [ai864 at yahoo.com]
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Subject: Re: [game_edu] ESA Foundation Computer and Video Game Scholarship      Program


>Feel free to give me you thoughts on the program. The degree focuses on design

>(graphics) not actual game programing, however we suggest sutdents take

>programing as an elective.


Wait, wait...

Does the degree focus on design, or graphics? Those are two very different things. Any use of the word "design" implies game design: creating the rules of the game. Design is not visual art, nor is it programming. See latest iteration of the IGDA curriculum framework for details.

I bring this up here because these are the very kinds of things that are potentially confusing, both for students and for the game companies that will ultimately decide whether to hire those students.

- Ian