Digipen is a great school. i went there last year for a summer workshop (i was in 8th grade, the 'shop was for Game Developing teaching the basics of game programming and developing). the campus is really cool. your right in the heart of Microsoft territory which is an absolutely awesome place (my cousin programs smart phones for MS, so i've been there to see their campus) so i would definitely reccomend Digipen, but i dont know much about Full Sail, but it is supposed to be good

I am currently a Full Sail student. I am in the Bachelors Completion Course. I graduated with an Associates Degree in April. Since they no longer offer the Associates, they offer a completion course for the AS guys to meet the requriments to get the Bachelors Degree.

Anyways, I love the school. In my opinion the instuctors are great, some really smart guys, the lab guys they have are good. The cirriculum. It by no means is easy. Most courses are crunched from what would be at a traditional university, a semeister or more, down into a one month course, some courses are two months. It is extremly hands on. Alot of coding, with the AS it was around 900 clock hours of Supervised programming. By that it means having a instuctor or a lab guy there to help studends out when they had questions or problems with there asignments, now with the Bachelors Program I'm not sure how many hours that is now. It is a very tough program, on average you do about 40hrs of week of class, and maybe 10 or more hrs of work a week out of class. More or less depending on what classes you are taking that month. When I graduated and looked back on the 14months I spend at Full Sail, I was amazed at how much I learned and what I know. I now in my free time when I'm done with my current course work or take a break from that stuff to code my own things, I work on two mods for PC games, with out some of the skills I learned from Full Sail, no way would I be able to have worked out some bugs or added some of the features I am adding or have added, in a short amount of time. If you look at my signature, assuming I set it up right :P there is a link to my personal website. On that site I give a run down on every programming course I took at Full Sail. Most of those courses were during the Associates Program and now have probably changed a bit on what they teach. Feel free to browse that part of my site to get my opinion of Full Sail.

Hope That helps ya out, and I'll prolly see you around Full Sail when you start :)

yeah, Nintendo is right across the street. but so is Microsoft

I'm 2 months shy of graduating as the first bachelors class at Fullsail. I would definately vouche for Fullsail being a damn good place to learn game programming. If you're interested in my teams bachelors final project you can check out the link in my sig.

Not to mention it also is in the same building as a Nintendo warehouse...

I haven't really witnessed any whoring for Nintendo though... They pretty much just rent us the approximately half a building and leave us alone.

Anyone whos in the general DigiPen area (Seattle,WA), I wanna meet some local developers, please contact me at:

AIM: Wreakon
MSN/EMAIL: Wreakon@hotma...

Andrew