How To Get A Job In Gaming - Movin On Up at PAX 2010 Panel

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I agree that the title of the article is a bit misleading since most of the video is more about the writing or journalism aspect of a video game related career rather than something broader. Aside from that, it was still an interesting watch and I learned a lot.

But I'm absolutely shocked that a college degree means next to nothing to these people. In my high school, they were strongly advising my fellow students into going to college. If it wasn't college, they were ok with military. But if you said you weren't sure yet, or that you weren't thinking about either collage or military; oh they would talk up a storm about why that wasn't a good idea. And they would always insist college before military.

In that regard I don't know what to make of this. Either the game industry is looking for very specialized people that are talented in what they know (which a general college degree won't help in), or the industry just neglects the value in such a background. The latter doesn't seem plausible over the former. So does this mean we might see more colleges devoted to the writing or journalism aspect of the gaming industry? For example, like colleges specialized more toward game development? It seems a bit odd.