welcome as replies (or DMs, if public isn't comfortable). I'm going to be chatting to some course leaders next week and, whilst I have my own thoughts, it would be great to take in a wishlist for/complaints about/wide variety of comments on games education. Any and all thoughts welcome. Thank you! - ThreadSky

englishscribe.bsky.social • 6 days ago

welcome as replies (or DMs, if public isn't comfortable).

I'm going to be chatting to some course leaders next week and, whilst I have my own thoughts, it would be great to take in a wishlist for/complaints about/wide variety of comments on games education.

Any and all thoughts welcome. Thank you!

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ezxo.bsky.social•5 days ago

storytelling is my jam..

englishscribe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Storytelling and jam are both important building blocks of the universe.

ardenost.bsky.social•6 days ago

My games course was over a decade ago, and it was chaotic with a little bit of everything, where you ended up teaching yourself. BUT! They required us to make one game per semester in a team. I recently talked to students whose course has NO team projects and I fear for them.

ardenost.bsky.social•6 days ago

Networking was also never touched on, and it was really just a slightly more experienced student getting my year onto conference volunteering that did wonders. Also teaching students *how* to network (with genuine roleplay!) would help heaps.

jenuinepanic.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have a game dev degree, previously taught on games courses and work in games tech.
Best thing is learning overarching concepts that last you years and are frequently implemented in different ways

jenuinepanic.bsky.social•6 days ago

Worst thing? Lecturers who know nothing about the industry and confidently teach the wrong thing. An example being they choose one tool and convince their students that everyone in games uses this, when in reality most companies use different ones and

jenuinepanic.bsky.social•6 days ago

will teach you when you start if you can prove good foundations. Which seems like a silly thing to complain about, but I've had many contentious conversations with students trying to explain that knowing Unity isn't enough to work at any AAA game developer

jenuinepanic.bsky.social•6 days ago

and if they want to code games they need to learn to code outside of that framework too, and they were all adamant that the Unity framework was universal.

jenuinepanic.bsky.social•6 days ago

And related, lecturers giving career advice that they're totally unqualified to give, and refusing to learn about how the industry is now, versus what they thought it was like 10 years ago. Oh and giving examples that don't relate to real world use cases at all,

jenuinepanic.bsky.social•6 days ago

I recently had to have a friend explain a very basic thing to me that I've been confused about for years cause the example I learned in college was totally inaccurate.
eh... and that's my little rant 😅

funambulism.com•6 days ago

From a non-games writing course I took recently, as well as ones I've given:
* Clear course and lesson plans that are stuck to.
* Clarity about the bar for end of course qualifications, if any.
* Openness about the routes to employment / state of the market / competition.
* Wide reading lists.

englishscribe.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thank you! :)

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