The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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Game development education is sometimes presented as a choice between a trade school diploma factory for employers and a poetry school for creatives who will never find jobs. In reality, the best approach we can take looks past this false dichotomy to a comprehensive understanding of the deep transferability of game development skills to hundreds of other industries and our responsibility as educators to prepare students for success in any of them. This talk covers specific approaches the Michigan State University Game Development faculty have used to create, execute, and refine their classes and drastically improve student work and outcomes over the past decade, leading the Princeton Review to rank MSU the #1 public university for undergraduate game design in three of the last five years.
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