College

[IndirectDragon]

Since the place seems dead I'll let you know that I graduated about a month ago.

[[JAM]]

Congrats, master!

[Ruins of Time]

You were in college?

[funwes]

Congrats! What was your major?

[Mr--Clean]

Awesome for you dude.

Got any work lined up?

[IndirectDragon]

Yes.

Computer science, specifically game program. It's like an applied degree thingy, so it kinda counts as job experience at the same time.

I haven't applied yet, I was trying to make my final project better so I can use it on my portfolio but I've been distracted. And now with e3 this week. AGH. Also, since someone will ask, it's a top down arcade style space shooter with a physics them. Graphics are 3d models and stuff but movement is in 2d. Game play revolves around defeating enemies with your gravity ray thing that can pull in planets, and little anti grav missile things that can push stuff around. Later in the game comes anti energy planets with reverse physics, negative mass and stuff. lots of gravity everywhere.

[hetchel]

I haven't applied yet, I was trying to make my final project better so I can use it on my portfolio but I've been distracted. And now with e3 this week. AGH. Also, since someone will ask, it's a top down arcade style space shooter with a physics them. Graphics are 3d models and stuff but movement is in 2d. Game play revolves around defeating enemies with your gravity ray thing that can pull in planets, and little anti grav missile things that can push stuff around. Later in the game comes anti energy planets with reverse physics, negative mass and stuff. lots of gravity everywhere.

Nice! I have a little shoot'em up in my projects too, and I recently added a gravity-based shot that pulls or pushes enemies around. I still haven't decided how to best include it into the existing gameplay, but it certainly looks like a fun promising feature.

[TheScribe]

Hrrrm, it must be true then that college isn't popping out educated grads.

And gameprogramming is the worst you could of picked for the programming profession - only the top makes any decent money, and you gotta live with the fact that you'll not have the time to play the games anymore, but make them. Good luck.

[Mori]

and you gotta live with the fact that you'll not have the time to play the games anymore, but make them. Good luck.

Oh, you can make time for both, trust me. Also congratulations.

[funwes]

I'm here to tell you that you suck for majoring in what you wanted to.

[IndirectDragon]

The scribe obviously has a lot of experience on the matter. He also knows how good of a programmer I am because he is magic. He also seems to know that I can't program for a business even though I can program for anything.

[airob]

Oh, people...

[TheScribe]

The scribe obviously has a lot of experience on the matter. He also knows how good of a programmer I am because he is magic. He also seems to know that I can't program for a business even though I can program for anything.

Well, it's a well known fact in the programming community that the best of the best never went to college in the first place, but are self-learned. College simply isn't dynamic enough to cover the dynamics of the programmer, and the ever growing number of books on the topic - it'd easily drown out anyone, but the obsessed.

I personally can't think of one great programmer that graduated from college with a phd. What usually happens is like facebook - the guy drops out, and goes after his vision, and fails or becomes rather wealthy.

[funwes]

Well, it's a well known fact in the programming community that the best of the best never went to college in the first place, but are self-learned. College simply isn't dynamic enough to cover the dynamics of the programmer, and the ever growing number of books on the topic - it'd easily drown out anyone, but the obsessed.

Do you have anything to back that up?

[TheScribe]

Well, it's a well known fact in the programming community that the best of the best never went to college in the first place, but are self-learned. College simply isn't dynamic enough to cover the dynamics of the programmer, and the ever growing number of books on the topic - it'd easily drown out anyone, but the obsessed.

Do you have anything to back that up?

Do you have anything to disapprove?

I'm mostly talking about people on the far right curve of ability, not mediocre, or above average in the industry, but the industry leaders, and yes, they're typically self-taught masters of the darkarts who've spent decades in dungeons mediating on their craft til perfection fighting for survival - while your academics is just a bunch of sex, beer, and videogame - granted you've probably never experienced these joys of the world.