Game Design: Computer Science or Game Design Degree

SHOTGUNKONOCHO
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:51:20 +0000

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I am a high school senior in Albany, GA. I love video games, anime, comics and Asian culture. What I want to do is go to school for creating video games. I am currently an amateur level graphic designer. I am pretty good at what I do and have some awards I have won.
There is a local 2-year college here called Darton State College. I have applied to the school and got accepted into the Associates in Computer Science. I am in no means good at math. My plans until now was to struggle through the program to get to where I want to go. I have very recently looked into the differences between game designers and game developers. From my understanding, game designers work with the graphics and character development of the game. This is what I want to do. Game developers do the programming and don’t really design anything but the mechanics that make the game (not that that is an easy job to do.) I live in the state of Georgia and am looking at programs. These are the two options I have come up with in solving my career outlook problem:

1. Get a degree in Computer Science with a Concentration in Game Development and Programming. This ensuring I have a good job and am not narrowed to Game Design which is hard to find a job in. I go to Darton State College, get a two year degree in Computer Science and do a transfer. Once again I am NOT good in math.

2. Or go to an art school in the area, likely SCAD or Full Sail, after doing core curriculum for the degree pathway at Darton State College and outsourcing as much as possible. I am scared of this path because of the tuition cost for these schools and the job outlook for these types of careers.

Is there anyone in the field that can help me with looking over this situation? Are there any SCAD graduates that can tell me about the Interactive design and game development degree at SCAD or their experience? Are there any game design or game developers that can help me with figuring this out?

I am also posting this under Arts and similar categories.

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