Originally posted by vyper
Try again next year, the Games courses are very popular. Masters is the only one worth anything though. The rest of us (BSc Comp) spit on the BSc Games Dev people.
Well.. not literally... most of the time.
Games BSc' tend to be embedded systems design by another name, anyways. I remember one of my lecturers - really nice guy, champion ranter - being somewhat scathing of 'games' degrees. What he said was, "if you want to program games, be a **** hot programmer", which is nice and all, except that we did Java which isn't exactly de-riguer in that instance.
Although my main aim was Advanced CS at Glasgow, which basically lets you pick 12 topics, read them up, and then do a dissertation project; so I could have done, say, a project on wireless mobile games. That was a single competitive stundentship, though, which I lost out on. **** knows how.... I think I came pretty close to breaking the Strathclyde exam results records on a few occasions, I've been told they 'think very highly' of me by my former boss. Probably cos I wasn't a Glasgow student; they tend to favour their own by all accounts.
To be fair, a lot of it comes down to funding and the need to help along some of the thicker people (although AFAIK the course had and still has a very good reputation; certainly when I was applying I was being unanimously told it was the best), otherwise we'd probably have been using C++ for, say, Graphics.
They also screwed up the Embedded Systems Design course quite a lot, mind you, and never organized any of the C programming that would've been the coursework. Shame, because ESD was one of the most interesting classes I've ever taken... i might even do a course at the ISLI next year if I'm still stuck for work.
