Hey i am apply to the International Acadmy of Design and Technology in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for a Video Game Design program. I was wondering is this school recognized at all by the gaming community and companies? Its the second year they have been offereing the program I think, so it is new, but is the school known? I knwo alot of you wont have a clue what I am taliing about, but iam hoping someone might.
Thanks
Hi!
I 've only heard about Upper Canada high school, York Univ., and Univ. of Toronto. Sorry, never heard of Acadmy of Design and Technology in Toronto. Could be a fun programme though!
// Loffy
I have not heard about it. If the school costs more than your other options, I would suggest:
Cheers
yea, thanks ifurita (you seem to know a little bit of everything), and i e-mail the admissions guy who has been helping me ang asked him for that information, as well as looking online.
to become involved in creating games is it ensential to go to sutch a school as i belive splash damage was formed by members of the moding comunity whitch would explain why they are so helpfull
We deny utterly that we are in any way helpful. It’s a myth and a lie and a fib.
Yah, do what Ifurita say. Some courses at some schools seem to be a little obsolete and don’t appear to do a great job of preparing people for working in the industry. Others seem to be right on the money. I have to stress that I’m woefully ignorant in this field, and pretty much the only courses I’ve know anything about are the Guildhall - sorry, The Guildhall - at Texas SMU and the University of Abertay Dundee. Some Guildhall students were kind enough to turn up to a presentation we did at QuakeCon last year and they seemed pretty happy about their course (albeit utterly exhausted, which gave them an authentic Pro-Developer apparance).
The main thing we look for is a good work portfolio; we don’t really mind whether the work was done at school, in a bedroom, for a mod team or for an established games developer. Oh, and the work does actually have to be done by you. We’re kinda picky about that.
Of course the one thing that a games course can give you that working on a mod at home can’t is working as part of a team in the same room. This is a skill we’re all very much looking forward to acquiring. Until then, all our decisions are taken by Ouija board or by apes hurling darts at a map of the world.
I’m not sure why, but it’s worth pointing you all at this link:
http://www.igda.org/columns/gamesgame/gamesgame_Jan05.php
If just to make you all smile 
Dear Tom,
I flipped a coin, but it came up tails, which meant I should go to [east coast school], and I don’t want to go there! Help!
Perplexed Again
I hope someone made that all up
That school has a lot of comercials on tv and everything, but the one story that I heard about that program was that it wasn’t very good. Don’t take my word for it though because this was a while ago. Honestly I think you’d be better served by spending your money on some books at chapters. They have a few decent books on game programming, if you can find it there’s one called ‘The Art of Game Programming’ I think, which I recommend. I’m sure it also wouldn’t hurt to get a CS that has good coverage of C/C++ and graphics(if your interested in the programming side).
yea well as it turns out i didnt apply so ai will probably goto university for a computers science thing(yea isaid thing, i unno what it is. lol) and i unno where from there