# @ Wednesday, December 22, 2004 3:03 PM

Weeeeeeeee! Sounds like fun!!!! Why do people think it's too much for an undergrad course? Besides, the gaming industry is pretty big anyway..so it's good to open learning opportunities there!

she_lim

# @ Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:56 PM

It will be interesting to see how that turns out...I personally don't think that's going to work very good...sure, it sounds great, but you won't get enough CS to understand what you're doing as good as you should (the game industry really cares about optimization and all that CS goodness ya know) and you may or may not be good at art and that's something that classes aren't really going to help you learn. So I think they will have some students that are great at art and that have taught themselves computer programming to a point and those students will do great, but everyone else (at least using the majority of the people I know at my college as a reference point which may or may not be valid) will fail to see the benefit and will have a hard time finding a job...if you don't pick up this set of courses well, then you don't really have a CS background and if you didn't ever figure out the art side of things, then well, what do employers see that the student can do? I think they really should have expanded both the art and CS departments by adding on two new majors where art people concentrate on digital art and the tools used for that and the CS people concentrate on building more game focused things during classes and then for a junior and/or senior project, you put the art people and CS people together to get them to build a game with each bringing a set of unique talents to the table. I wish them the best of luck with it though and hope it turns out really well. I'd like to see something like that succeed.

AdamMB

# @ Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:53 PM

WPI is quite an amazing school. I think its reputation is not as great as it should be because it is located a ways outside of Boston and the Boston area has schools like MIT, BU, Harvard and Northeastern which all have well deserved international reputations. A number of my high school students have gone to WPI over the years and I have to say t hat their skill levels were/are quite high. If someone can pull it off WPI is such a school.

AlfredTwo

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