Misplaced Pride
Everyone at IMD is beamingly happy about the recent Princeton Review … review of the top 50 schools for Game Design, which sat USC/IMD squarely at the top in the number one slot.
I’m as proud as anyone else, I suppose, but everyone else has been tootin’ about it, so I haven’t really bothered. Still, it’s funny to see the reactions.
For example, in this USA Today explication, they of course make reference to Jenova Chen’s flOw and the more recent Misadventures of PB Winterbottom. But the list is supposed to be about undergraduate programs, and both those games technically came out of the graduate program. ::lol::
But funnier, and maybe more inflammatory, is this comment that I saw on Kotaku’s coverage of the article.
That’s funny that DigiPen is second even though they’ve won the top places at the Independent Games Festival for 8 YEARS IN A ROW.
… mmyyyeah. And the fact that DigiPen happens to also be the “platinum sponsor” of the IGF student showcase has absolutely nothing to do with it, I’m sure.
