Is going to college for video game design a good idea?

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Hello future McDonalds/Walmart manager

>Wanting to get into the videogame industry

So you want shitty work conditions, loads of unpaid overtime, shitty pay for the hours you work, poor job security and to turn your hobby into what you hate?

Bad idea user, I've have graduated from game design college, they only teach basic shit for making low quality indie.
Like this user says, They only teach you basic jack of all trades skill. You are likelier to ends up hating certain subjects and liking other subjects more. You are better off learning a specialized subject you would enjoy doing then partner with others who specializes in different subjects

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I want friends are into game design like me.
I want cute gamedev gf

>ONLY if you're there to make connections and get in touch with people wanting to work in the industry.

Here is the answer. Which is also true for just about every college major except medicine and the hard sciences.

There's way more than enough tutorials on youtube or even in textbooks to get you to an amateur dev level in a few months if you're serious.

If you think the investment will motivate you to study, just have a friend take 100 grand from you and tell him to light it on fire in a year if you don't produce at least a rough beta of whatever you're trying to achieve. Same risk but at least in this scenario you get the money back if you succeed instead of throwing at some bogus "game college" so they can put more 30 second ads on Adult Swim.

yes if you're going to a good school and work your ass off no if you are not.
Same as every field.

Unironically its not a bad course and field.

t. did game art and had my name in credits for AAA games before i left school and have been workign in AAA in my short 2 year long career

If you even had to ask then no, you'll get over it

you should skip college and just start working your way up in game industry now. a good place to start is GameStop.