GDC 2009: DeVry University

Dave Graveline interviews David Walker from DeVry University at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, CA. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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Education

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• david
• walker
• devry
• university
• gsp
• cis
• game
• simulation
• program
• gdc
• 2009
• developer
• conference
• expo

[ITTV]

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[FF18Cloud]

@sfbmod usc, rit, drexel, umbc, neumont, full sail, the list goes on... though, that may be up for argument since the Princeton review is questionable. Really though, it depends what you want from the program. I prefer experimentation and finding new ways to play games but if its for the barebones, making games, then someone might like these kinds of vocational schools.

[mariopot789]

I am a GSP major and while I have my own complaints about Devry we definitely benefited from our education at the school. you can check out our senior project " Shattered Ties" and see what Devry taught our team .

[sfbmod]

It's awesome to see someone with that much game developing experience and history as the Dean of a school program dedicated to game development. What other school has this much experience in their faculty?

[mundotaku]

LOL, they have to inerview their own staff to say that their school is not bad XD

[cedricphizeme]

@Twinfun2 yeah you are right, they both really have a important part to it if you look at it, 3d art is important because everyone loves a game with good graphic and of course coding is important because it controls everything

[Twinfun2]

@cedricphizeme

Oh, well I don't think programming is any better than modeling, but when it comes to actually developing a game, the 3d art is quite insignificant. There is a much greater surplus of great modelers nowadays than their is software engineers anyway...

[cedricphizeme]

@Twinfun2 LMAO naw im serious, programming is seriously better then 3d animation sorry for making it sound like it was sarcasm

[Twinfun2]

@cedricphizeme

Is that sarcasm?

[cedricphizeme]

@Twinfun2 lol they just dont know how important programming is, wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyy more important then 3d animation

[Contrarocker]

My adviser at devry (who is the biggest liar I've ever known)told me you learn what you want to do at DeVry, which i believe to be true. However whatever you want to learn devry can't teach it...at all. It was the worst educational experience of my life ( I was in GSP) 70% of my classmates shouldn't have been within a mile of a school. After 2 years and fearing for my future I transfered to another school to learn 3D and I can honestly say it was the best decision of my life.