any other qantm students doing bach of IE? i know of just a tiny handful here. I failed drawing and pretty sure i've passed the rest with credits and a pass. what have ur results been?

your results = you paid $15k to pass

i only paid $3k back in the day, and they passed me even tho i failed

wooo

All HDs in programming, except for the final exam, which I still haven't got the results back for yet. It was a tricky exam, so I'm thinking I might have only got a D, but I'm hoping for another HD.

D's and HD's in INT201, dont know if I have enough HD's to give me a HD overall though, but it'll be close. I got a HD on my Treatment and my Character Biographies, and D's on everything else.

Credits so far in DES104, but still haven't got the mark back for the final Design Document, and I'm hoping I get a pretty good mark for that, which should bring me up overall. The Interface Design stuff really brought down my mark for the Tute Exercises, I hate drawing, I'm a programmer, sif I can draw :(

You learnt how to program, learn how to draw. Just as methodical, except most people who can draw well start practising when they are like 5 or somethen :p

How long u got left Khel before you take that job at id Software?

Yeah, but I've been programming for years, I can't really justify spending years learning how to draw when its something I hate doing in the first place :P I'd rather spend that time doing more programming!

I managed to get through the subject on 2d animation last semester though, was pretty impressed with myself there, of course 40% of the marks for that subject were an exam that I got a D on, which made up for my crappy efforts on the actual animation side of things ;)

That job at id is for an animator though, and sif live in texas, only steers and queers live in texas and I ain't no steer. Or queer.

but you can own a gun! a big one!

Booyah! All HD's and one F in Drawing. Louis ftw!
and then there's 3d...which we shall not speak about here, and INT201....*crys*
Lets hope the marker pen kudos manage to bleed (lol pun) over to DES104. Oh, and the story is awesome too :)

wantm is for rich asians who want to an excuse to go to replay

f*** off. I'd say it kicks the living s*** out of any other 'real' uni concerning getting into games; they just have so many resources, almost all of their staff are gamers and the college works closely within the industry.
We even get Free entry to E3 and press conferences

Qantm is for people who aren't Persay.

I want to go to QANTM but it's so goddamned expensive. Engineering first year at QUT = boring & the gay.

you couldn't afford qantm, so you did a uni course that has nothing whatsoever to do with art?

he just wanted a reason to go to replay instead of uni

Qantm is sposed to be getting HECS for its degrees and stuff soon, dont know exactly when though.

Failing that, you could always go the deferred student loan through NAB. Go into the NAB branch on Queen St and tell them you're looking at studying at Qantm and want to know about the student loan and they'll hook you up with all the details. Its basically a loan that gives you $10k a year towards your fees (so $20k all up for a 2 year degree), and you dont have to make any repayments until you graduate and get a job. You need a guarantor though, so you'd have to have a parent or someone willing to go guarantor for you.

All those game design courses are a lot of money for not much worth. If you want to do programming for games you're better off doing a degree in mathematics. If you want to do levels buy some books and use the level editors that come with nearly every fps these days. If you want to be an art guy then start drawing a lot of comics and work on your 3D abilities.

Insom,
my two main interests are electronics and programming games.. neither of them has particularly much to do with art :P.

Ultimately I wanted to study both courses simultaneously, probably with the QANTM course part time (then I'd finish both at the same time) but QANTM wouldn't allow me to do it. I have a scholarship at QUT that covers full HECS.. if I was paying for uni I would be at QANTM, but currently I'm looking at saving up money over the next few years to possibly study there afterwards.

Qantm, if done right, also gives contacts that can be used to land a useful job.
I belive that if you do the Qantm course, you definatly want to be within 3 or 4 places of the top performing student, preferably the best.
So if your a programer, going by the time I went to Qantm. You would want to have built up your own engine from ground up, know it inside out and have a stack of content in there from the rest of your course. Some models, animated, a basic game to show the engine works. Preferably something that has 'real' world problems in it, such as the basic physics of race cars. The guy who did that landed a job at Qantus I think helping build training simulaters or some such. Definatly top of the class that person was, mmm yessss. Strong in the dark arts of force programming..

This way you have stuff that stands out for the contacts to see. Also remember that they have had previous students stuff to measure your level of productivity against.

I dont see how a degree in mathematics would be a good direction to go in for a games programmer. Sure theres some maths involved, trigonometry, vectors, matrices, etc but there'd be a hell of a lot in a mathematics degree that is entirely useless to games programming. I'd rather do a degree like the one I'm doing where they cover all the maths specific to games programming and show me exactly what I need to know.

I guess, over time, I could have taught myself a lot of what I need to know, but I decided I'd rather go and learn how to do it the right way. Having lecturers that actually do this stuff for a living is a great benefit too. I can only speak from a programming point of view, but the lecturers really know their s*** and having them there as a resource to help you understand stuff is invaluable. Even the introductory C++ subjects taught me some new ways and better ways to do stuff I could already do. Because a lot of my C++ was self taught, I was able to really tighten up my coding style sharpen my existing skills. I can't see myself getting any of those benefits out of a Mathematics degree or self teaching myself.

They also offer internships to second year students (I think with Auran), and at the end of the degree they have a big industry night where you can show off your work and your mad skills to potential employers and hopefully land a job. So not only do you get skills, you get a foot in the door job-wise, well worth it imo.

also you get to work with wicked sick people (like Khel and midda) and c***s (like *******).