Comments on: Drexel University Ranked #3 in Video Game Design

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Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:46:54 +0000

[...] Geekadelphia reports on a survey that put Drexel’s video game developing program as the third best in the country. [...]

By: DrexelDIGM

DrexelDIGM — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:12:20 +0000

Drexel is now offering a Bachelors of Science in Game Art and Production that will be available to the incoming class of 2011.

http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/academics/undergraduate/gameartproduction/

By: Nik

Nik — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:37:34 +0000

I actually just signed up to transfer to Drexel University for their Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science, with a personal focus for Game Design. I plan on minoring in Japanese to work in Japan for a couple years, to experience their side of gaming and game development.

I’m very excited to read this article and I hope that I can become another name to be recognized with Game Design coming from out of Drexel. I have a lot of ambitions and a good set of ideas ready to work with. :]

By: DrexelGames

DrexelGames — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:44:08 +0000

Gaming at Drexel is a multi-discipline collaboration called RePlay (www.replay.drexel.edu). RePlay is a collaborative effort between the CS department and the Digital Media program(DIGM) in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, and hosts game-related projects across any major, field, or discipline. RePlay includes cross-discipline courses, university-wide projects and faculty, and the RePlay Lab is home for all gaming-related research projects. Gaming is becoming a separate major in Digital Media and a concentration in CS, and the gaming course offering continues to be expanded each year, with approximately 10 new courses planned over the next 2 years.

By: Joe Osborne

Joe Osborne — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:26:57 +0000

This is amazing. Anyone need anymore evidence that Philadelphia deserves and would be an ideal location for development studios? Come to us!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:53:35 +0000

Crazy that with such a highly ranked program not a single substantial game studio is in this city.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:44:11 +0000

Thanks Aaron!

By: Aaron Grando

Aaron Grando — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:24:33 +0000

To clarify some points that could possibly be misunderstood from the GP article, there is no “Gaming” program at Drexel (as of last June, when I graduated, at least – there has been some shuffle since then).

However, the Digital Media program does have a “gaming” slant to it with some courses. DigM was/is a wide program that can cover many bases, but the three specialties they suggest are 3D modeling/animation, Gaming, and web design/development. There’s a lot of overlap in between those tracks, and everyone’s required to take some core art classes and dip into the other specialties for at least a few classes.

I’ve heard through the grapevine that they’re working on restructuring the courses so that there’s less overlap, and thus, more focus on whatever track you choose – which is a great thing, I can tell you for sure. The long, frustrating hours I spent working on 3D animation and compositing during years there haven’t proportionally benefited my web development career, ha.

This isn’t to say anything about the CS program at Drexel, which I can’t really speak for, but I know there’s got to be some game dev going on there.