Many famous video game designers do not have college degrees, but instead started their careers in other ways, such as being a computer program debugger. Hironobu Sakaguchi is one such designer.
Professor Akram Taghavi-Burris’s aspiring game design students explained by way of a slide show why they like their favorite video game producer.
Students each gave a brief overview of their favorite game designer, such as when and where they were born, where they went to college, and what company they were affiliated with in the past and present.
“One of the reasons that they do it,” Taghavi-Burris said, “is because the video game industry is so new. Since the class focuses on the history of video games, there’s only so much that we can pull from the textbooks because there is only about 40 years of information.
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