All this computer hacking has made me thirsty

This ad for video game design training at Collins College used to make its rounds on the G4 network. The differences portrayed in the ad versus the realities of game design are so sharply different it should warrant a ‘complete dramatization’ title.

First of all, you program video games with a video game controller? No, that would be stupid. If it were that easy why would you have to pay to go to college to learn how to do it. Instead of sitting next to your BFF in armchairs playing with your joysticks, you’re probably in an office hip deep in code trying to track down a memory leak.

The commercial also seems to suggest there’s no AI for the movement of bad guys in video games, and events and sound effects are laid out like a movie. “Ok should this guy move left or right now? And then what sound effect plays as this is happening, for this one unique instance?” Maybe this might make some kind of sense if they were designing the video for a cut scene, but they clearly aren’t since one of the guys refers to the level of the game they are ‘programming’.

Gaming Out Loud pans this commercial in its think piece entitled Video Games Schools are for Fucking Idiots. Gaming Out Loud writes:

‘If you saw that ad and decided to give ‘em a call, I honestly hope you fall for their scam and end up giving them thousands of dollars. I want your life to become so miserable that you kill yourself, or at the very least, start to cut. I want you to suffer pain. My only problem with you wasting your money on those schools is that you’re fueling this cycle of idiocy. Otherwise, go eat a bag of AIDS.’

Could this writer be the next Maddox? Not with that kind of potty mouth.

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