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Games Local Students Win Top Indie Gaming Prize
Posted by Sam Machkovech on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Tag: The Power of Paint picked up its first-ever award last night in San Francisco. The Independent Games Festival deemed this video game the best of the Student Award class, which means its seven-student team from Redmond's DigiPen Institute now has $2,500 of prize money to spend on the following: 1) expand the painting-puzzle mechanics that earned our kudos a few months ago; 2) come up with a better title that doesn't sound like a Nickelodeon special; and 3) buy the game's designers fancier drinks.
You're an indie-gaming star now, man—quit sippin' that Strawberry Quik.
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Any student who graduates from DigiPen is to be congratulated, but faculty is useless and only interested in culling the student base until they are left with the small percentage who possess the talent to make games. They do not hide this fact and actively, and very vocally encourage students to drop out - constantly. This makes for a strong, small core of talent, but it sucks for all those people who traveled across the country and paid their outrageous fees.
There is almost no actually teaching of game making there. Basically, students there learn to make games because they are surrounded by other people with similar interests. The actual institution plays almost no part in it, other than grouping these people together and assigning projects. You can do that for free via sites on the internet. So not worth the money.
There is almost no actually teaching of game making there. Basically, students there learn to make games because they are surrounded by other people with similar interests. The actual institution plays almost no part in it, other than grouping these people together and assigning projects. You can do that for free via sites on the internet. So not worth the money.
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@2 "You can do that for free via sites on the internet. So not worth the money. "
Yeah, but people don't make very good games working with flaky teams online. This isn't the modding days.
But yeah, people drop out like flies the first few years. Typically it's the most anti-social guys, ironically, since they don't have a support base to get help with assignments on. Half of them go to BCC and learn Japanese.
I graduated from DigiPen and got the job I wanted, so I dunno, I guess it worked out. But it's not a real degree that transfers to other schools.
If you dropped out relatively early on you probably didn't see the quality of the faculty. But if you dropped out from the school, I doubt you'd say that the faculty was great and there was a great amount of support from your peers.
The game I worked on won this award two years ago. Check it out: http://toblo.csnation.net
Yeah, but people don't make very good games working with flaky teams online. This isn't the modding days.
But yeah, people drop out like flies the first few years. Typically it's the most anti-social guys, ironically, since they don't have a support base to get help with assignments on. Half of them go to BCC and learn Japanese.
I graduated from DigiPen and got the job I wanted, so I dunno, I guess it worked out. But it's not a real degree that transfers to other schools.
If you dropped out relatively early on you probably didn't see the quality of the faculty. But if you dropped out from the school, I doubt you'd say that the faculty was great and there was a great amount of support from your peers.
The game I worked on won this award two years ago. Check it out: http://toblo.csnation.net
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Whatever it is, it's the stuff he was drinking when he worked on this game. He should stick with what works.
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