The absolute state of (future) game developers
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I have more faith in Newgrounds and browser porn games creating our next genius game designers than any institution of education...
as a game design graduate, I can confirm this.
Newgrounds today is infected too.
Its infected by a pack of far-left jannies who constantly harass anyone they deem 'right wing' and Tom is too feeble to kick them out even as they destroy the community. I figure they must have threatened his family.
You sure?
Yeah I think it's a safe bet..
I don't understand the complaint here. Did they expect some 400 year old classical text about platformer tutorial levels? If you're in a game design lecture, you're not gonna do much better than that egoraptor video.
I'm assuming this is a college level course, in which case it's not a prison, it's a scam. Literally just leave. Spend a year entering game jams, you'll learn so much more.
it's a debt trap and a sunk cost fallacy prison.
Know a guy who went to one of those, he's not using his degree for his work now at all, lmao.
Couple things:
First, Arin is a complete idiot. He is his own greatest counter-argument. He'll say in a video that "naturally, the player would do X" but, since he has the situational awareness of a sea sponge, is incapable of doing X. Aside from that, a lot of his points seem to revolve around the idea of the "video game design singularity" in which there is a single way to design a game element and you should only do that.
My other complaint is the fact that these people payed money to be shown a fucking Youtube video that you or I can watch right now. The only difference is they don't have the added benefit of leaving drunken, racial insults in the comments as they watch it.
Game design college courses are a grift on a par with ethnic studies. If we talk about mobile/web games - no one needs game designers there, lol, you're better of as a mathematician. If we talk about actual games - this shit cannot be taught the same way you can't have a PhD in writing.
https://english.wisc.edu/programs/composition-and-rhetoric/graduate-studies/
https://english.ku.edu/phd-creative-writing
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/phd/tcr/index.php
Never doubt the ability of universities to come up with useless degrees.
Those degrees are for someone trying to control a bunch of English Majors, not actually write well.
For some reason I thought this was games "programming." IDK why. Design as in how to design software that serves a game function.
You can have a PhD in English and classical literature, though. It's not a prerequisite, but it can be beneficial.
People seem to forget that was Ego in his prime. He actually did used to have some good insight back i the day.
Yes, the Sequelitis videos have aged really well, especially the Mega Man X one.
I swear Nintendo took his Ocarina of Time video to heart when making Breath of the Wild.
Dang iirc he used to be kinda funny sometimes - maybe even made a salient point about game design on occasion (not worth classroom time though).
Lemme guess he cucked out and is sucking the Big Black Rainbow Dildo now?
Can they tighten up those graphics on level 3 for me?
It really is no wonder new games suck.
To be fair, his Megaman X video is an excellent analysis of good game design.
Ah yes, egoraptor, the marty janetty of gamgrumps.
Game design school? Lmao.
No please.
Egoraptor is not a game designer and he just makes shit up. Hes a cartoonist and animator/entertainer. I truly hope people aren't using his dumb diatribes to actually teach people.