My Useless Education

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When I first started to study Game Design, I caught a lot of flak about it from various folks who saw it as a useless waste of time. This is an article from an industry website that discusses one of the more fundamental aspects of game design, and why I see it as such an intriguing field to be part of right now.

If we can get a more concrete understanding of the learning behaviors people exhibit while having fun it could have huge implications for education, physical rehabilitation, and possibly even treating psychological disorders and brain trauma.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1524/the_chemistry_of_game_design.php?print=1

When I first started to study Game Design, I caught a lot of flak about it from various folks who saw it as a useless waste of time. This is an article from an industry website that discusses one of the more fundamental aspects of game design, and why I see it as such an intriguing field to be part of right now.

If we can get a more concrete understanding of the learning behaviors people exhibit while having fun it could have huge implications for education, physical rehabilitation, and possibly even treating psychological disorders and brain trauma.

And I thought you were a geology guy!

Inside of Computer Science it was heavily derided until probably about the last 10 years or so, when world consumers practically *vomit* money into the industry.

Game creation teaches:

1. Memory management
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Simulation of environments
4. High-Performance Computing
5. User-Interface Design

The list goes on, but as far as my own field, education in a 4yr that offers this curriculum teaches nearly everything you might need to know to be an effective software developer.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"

I work in applied geophysics and surveying, I study game design. I know, not much of a correlation there, but hey, geophysics and geological surveying just pays the bills. :P I decided to go back to school because my current career is not meeting my needs intellectually or in my family life. (Being gone six months out of the year is REALLY hard when you have a family.)

Game design really does teach a lot, and the title for the thread was more of a sarcastic jab at the people who have railed on me for my choice of major. (That doesn't apply to anyone on this site, just my warped sense of humor coming out.) The broad spectrum of the educational curriculum is one of the prime reasons that I chose the field. I am a dabbler by nature, and this field suits that dabbling addiction to a T.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.

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