<p>@hailzeon0079
This is my friends experience with CS-Games.</p>
<p>CS Games is awesome - you’ll have lots of familiar faces throughout the games classes you’ll take (that you’ll also be taking the regular CS classes with), and they’re (almost) all really passionate about game design and stuff, which gives you that in common. Then you have the Interactive Media majors - they’re under the cinema school, and focus on design, not worrying about the programming stuff; you don’t really have classes with them freshman year, but you will eventually, and even before that, they’re people you’ll see around at games events. In terms of just the general state of the games program at USC, we really earn our #1 spot: in just my first semester, Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid) and the president of EA came in and just talked about their experience in games and stuff like that. In one class I took this spring, the professor brought in people from Blizzard, a bunch of people from different mobile games companies, and Jenova Chen (Flower, Journey). Most, if not all, of our faculty either work in games now, or have extensive experience in games - one of our newest faculty additions is Richard Lemarchand: he was a lead at Naughty Dog for most of the Uncharted series. On top of the awesome faculty, we have MEGA (Makers of Entertaining Games Association) - it’s a student organization that’s really awesome - we meet up for things like having people show off games they’re working on, doing game jams where you have to make a game in a limited amount of time, having industry speakers come in to talk to you, and talking about how to get internships and scholarship opportunities (you could get industry mentors and go to events like GDC or E3 for free, if you get the scholarships).</p>