Quote:Original post by Tom Sloper

Quote:Original post by OCN_Raiyu

Quote:Original post by Tom Sloper

Quote:Original post by OCN_Raiyu
The question I had is if having a respectable degree and industry experience (AFTER I graduate and get that experience of course.) would make the certificate look a bit more appealing in the long run.

Nobody will care about the certificate, if you have industry experience. Or the degree, for that matter.

I would need a degree JUST to be noticed by someone in the industry

Nobody's going to notice you based on a degree. Period. The degree is so you can get hired. Only by getting hired can you get game industry experience. The hypothetical question you posed above assumed that you had game industry experience and a degree. How are you going to get the experience without the degree?

Quote:or at the very least to be taken seriously? Unless I have exceptionally great contacts in the industry, or I'm super lucky and happen to be at the right place at the right time, with the right clothes and wearing the right socks...

So you're saying "there can be exceptions." Yes, that's true. But you don't want to make a life plan based on being an exception to the rules.

Quote:should just go for transferring to a University, or get an associates degree and then transfer.

Sorry, I don't understand the question you're asking. GET AT LEAST A 4-YEAR DEGREE. An Associates can be part of that. A certificate can be part of that. You can also do that if the degree is handed to you on a Tuesday or gets peanut butter on it.

What is your REAL question? Seems like you're dancing around it a lot.

I think you're taking my questions, and looking at them as statements...

What I wanted was clarification.

Quote:Nobody will care about the certificate, if you have industry experience. Or the degree, for that matter.

That was your first response, its seems as if no one will care what kind of degree I have, as long as I have industry experience, that also includes a 4 year degree.

My question there was: How would I get industry experience, if I don't have a degree?

Anything I said in the above was not a statement, but a question to what you said....

but thank you, I think you indirectly answered my question.

I will get a 4 year degree, as I planned. But now I have clarification: It wouldn't hurt to get an A.S and a Certificate along with it, thanks.

Thank you for the information I'll be sure to apply it to my educational plans.