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Is there some reason this "say something scary about your industry" meme that& #39;s going around is dragging every dev or game industry person& #39;s bitterness/anger toward/at game dev uni programs into the light, or what?
I& #39;m a game dev professor who tries hard to give students a well-rounded education that has no illusions about the often exploitative and highly limited professional games industry and frankly, being told by devs that I& #39;m basically a lying huckster preying on kids is insulting?
I& #39;m sorry if you had a bad uni experience or if the candidates you& #39;re seeing applying to you aren& #39;t up to your standards but suggesting the entire enterprise is morally bankrupt and functionally useless is stupid as hell and I& #39;m super tired of it.
"You don& #39;t need a college degree to work in game dev." You& #39;re right. It& #39;s not required. In some cases it might be helpful, in others it won& #39;t. Like any tool, a college education has benefits and it has drawbacks and it& #39;s not a universal panacea.
It sucks that universities are run like businesses now, focused on the bottom line, partly because of greed and partly driven by the very real and intense drop in funding for higher ed from state and private sources alike. It means getting a degree is expensive.
And as someone with a PhD& #39;s worth of student loans I am KEENLY aware of the cost of a college education. It& #39;s a lot. There& #39;s a lot riding on it. Not getting one when its benefit might not be worth the monetary outlay is a pretty reasonable decision.
