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My Video Game Developer Club made the front page of OC weekly!

Posted by mongoid - December 11th, 2010


I'm so proud! The UC Irvine Video Game Developers Club was featured in a front page article in the OC Weekly today. It's been 10 weeks since I passed the torch to the new president, and it's wonderful to see the club getting this kind of exposure.

For those who don't know, UC Irvine in Orange County, CA is starting a Game Science major under their Computer Science Department. It's NOT like the typical game design degree that you get at trade schools like The Art's Institute, DeVry, or Westwood. It's actually geared toward the academic and lower level CS curriculum involved in the video game industry, like artificial intelligence, graphics processing, software design, discrete algebra, etc. The VGDC has been working with them to help design and promote the major, since our club is primarily focused on MAKING games, not playing them.

We've had a great time over the past year and a half, with QA presentations from dozens of industry speakers (including John Baez from The Behemoth), tours of Blizzard and Obsidian Studios, active involvement in the local IGDA chapter, and two game design competitions.

If any of you guys go to UCI, or are planning to go to UCI, look us up!

GO VGDC!

My Video Game Developer Club made the front page of OC weekly!


Comments

You the one with the fro?

Nah, that's one of our club members.

Money is a bitch to aspiring 3d animators...
most uni's ask for a base of 90k a year for classes like ours

so fuck that =P

You don't go to a state school to become a 3D animator. That's what the trade schools are for. Some great ones are SMU Guildhall and Digipen. They are expensive, but you'd be getting an extremely specialized education. The UCI Game Science major has nothing to do with 3D art and design. It's computer science, so you'll be learning the programming aspect of game development.

For a UC, it's usually very easy to get free money for a BA, especially if you're fresh out of high school. The Cal Grant and Pell Grant are amazing. I easily paid a fraction of the bottom line for my BS in CS. Student loans took up the rest and there's nothing wrong with going into debt if it means you're going to make over $50,000 a year when you leave school.

I plan on going to SMU for grad school, it's expensive though so I may not :(

Congrats man =D

wheres teh fro comb?
and i'm guessing this is US stuff?

Yeah, US stuff.