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Originally Posted by beartraps
I have heard ITT is a load of shit, however school is what you make of it. I would say 90 percent of what I have learned has been on my own through tutorials and this great site. I would recommend making yourself your networking sites a high source of learning, most schools cant teach and critique everything. Read books and watch tutorials whenever you can. A degree is great and all but from what I have learned thus far it's absolutely your work that counts.
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Take it from me i went to ITT-Tech I graduated 2009, Valedictorian, ABK Honors Society, etc.
It cost me over $80,000 and i wish that i had never stepped foot into their college. I had an instructor who was involved with the game industry for about 10-15 years, He had to leave after his class graduated (ITT and him had a falling out over the course)
The program is sorely lacking and teaches the basics of game theory. They do not teach Modeling past basic intro to modeling, They did not teach UVMapping, Texturing, Normal/Spec/Occlu mapping. They teach basic .net coding, basic photoshop, there was theory of how lighting and sound is used to set a scene that has immersion, but there was no actual scene setting done.(all theorizing) By the time i figured this all out it was too late their credits DO NOT transfer.
Hindsight being 20/20 id have picked up a bachelors degree in multimedia from a state university costing me alot less and self studies like i am doing now.
The OP has it right in the quoted part buy books from amazon that are recommended by game studios. Get a degree in anything other than game design and then focus on your specialty in the gaming industry be it characters, sound, environment art etc..
If any college is charging over $50,000 for their degree walk away. I didn't know as i came to the states to learn game development that meant no scholarship eligibility my $80k at 6.8% is over $870 a month that's over 10k a year.