Game Development Courses...
by Joel Miller · in General Discussion · 04/01/2002 (9:58 pm) · 3 replies
I was just looking around at gamedev.net, and noticed that an outfit caled Game Institute (https://www.gameinstitute.com/gi/) is offering 25% discounts on their courses until the end of this month.
Has anyone had any experience with these folks? What I'm wondering is: Are their courses worth the money?
fyi: I'm a Mac developer, so I don't really care about the DirectX-related courses.
Has anyone had any experience with these folks? What I'm wondering is: Are their courses worth the money?
fyi: I'm a Mac developer, so I don't really care about the DirectX-related courses.
#2
DirectInput course.
The courses are well designed and the instructors are in the indestry (Game Dev that is).
I am planning on taking several other courses like Game Dev in DirectX, Game Dev in OGL, BSP tree stuff etc..
Regards,
Ron
04/02/2002 (6:30 am)
GI is an excelent place to learn the nity gritty, I am currently in week 4 of a 6 week C++ course (taking it for the windows API info), as well as week one of a DirectInput course.
The courses are well designed and the instructors are in the indestry (Game Dev that is).
I am planning on taking several other courses like Game Dev in DirectX, Game Dev in OGL, BSP tree stuff etc..
Regards,
Ron
#3
I found them both to be quite interesting. However, the level of feedback from the prof completely dropped off halfway through the OGL course.
You still get access to all the course materials after you have finished. I learnt a lot as well. I also got to do the first three weeks of the Advanced Material Course (BSP and a bunch of other stuff). That course was extremely well taught.
Overall, I would recommend it. They have been improving a lot since when I first took a course there, and even then it wasn't bad.
04/02/2002 (4:58 pm)
I took the OGL course last summer as well as the Pathfinding course back in October-November.I found them both to be quite interesting. However, the level of feedback from the prof completely dropped off halfway through the OGL course.
You still get access to all the course materials after you have finished. I learnt a lot as well. I also got to do the first three weeks of the Advanced Material Course (BSP and a bunch of other stuff). That course was extremely well taught.
Overall, I would recommend it. They have been improving a lot since when I first took a course there, and even then it wasn't bad.
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