[game_edu] Brenda Braithwaite's game_edu rant at GDC

[Bill Crosbie]

Kenneth,

I'm sorry to hear that your program didn't pan out. The skills you were
training fall in to the realm of technical art, a discipline that, according
to the people doing it, has only recently gained traction within the
industry.

I spent almost the entire week of GDC recording interviews with tech artists
for the Education SIG. The first interviews are up on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/opcode6
(I'm processing more in the background as I type.)

There are interviews with TAs from Volition, Insomnicac, Bioware, Krome,
Avalanche, IO Interactive, Criterion, Red Storm, 1st Playable and Valve on
the way. I'm sorry if this information comes a touch too late for you, but I
hope that other programs looking to bridge art and coding find the resources
they need to encourage students to stick it out.

There will be a formal announcement of the contributors and companies once
all of the files are uploaded.

Bill



On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Kenneth Willes <klwilles at southern.edu>wrote:


> We designed an Interactive Media curriculum that combined visual design and

> programming. Our placement rates have been very high in that program and I

> believe it is in part due to this unique combination.

>

> Despite the program's success, it had low enrollment numbers--too low to

> continue on. So I'm currently teaching out the remaining students.

>

>

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