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game development courses

  • 20-10-2011 3:06pm
    #1
    dclewis
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭


    hi all

    After drifting through life the last couple of years I have finally decided exactly what it is I want to do. I want to go into the gaming industry/ software developmet. Over the last couple of weeks I have been looking at courses starting in the 2012/2013 academic year. I can do a full time course but it would be better for me to do a part time course as i can continue to work to pay for all the things I need in life.

    There are courses in most of the colleges and universities in the country, i'm just not sure which one is the right one, I am in Dublin by the way. Is one better then the other or are they all pretty much the same .


    Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks in advance
    Dave


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  • #2
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    PC Pro has someone in it this month, talking about the game industry, David Braben I think, and they they prefer people from a regular computer science degree thats heavy in maths. They didn't rate game development courses that highly in general. The exception being one in Scotland somewhere. Couldn't find it the online edition.


  • #3
    dclewis
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭dclewis


    BostonB wrote: »
    PC Pro has someone in it this month, talking about the game industry, David Braben I think, and they they prefer people from a regular computer science degree thats heavy in maths. They didn't rate game development courses that highly in general. The exception being one in Scotland somewhere. Couldn't find it the online edition.


    Thanks for the reply. Most of the courses that I was looking at were computer science degrees. Griffith college Dublin and national college Ireland do both full time and part time ones. And there reasonably priced to.


  • #4
    joshrogan
    Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭joshrogan


    Dkit have a games development course

    http://ww2.dkit.ie/schools_and_departments/imcm/computing_mathematics/courses/dk820


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