Digital Dave

I fully anticipate and expect a challenging course for an intersession course, but this class that I was going to take just blew me away.   The course only lasts 15 days (actually 12).

Just a few points:

1. Class goes from M-F from 1:00pm to 5:30pm including 1 Saturday.
2. Daily Quizes
3. Daily Assignments (Including Readings, etc…)
4. Research Presentation that includes collaborating with about 4 other people, writing a proposal, writing a report, and then creating the actual presentation.
5. A final writing that revolves around a book

So, essentially, you’d spend 4 1/2 hours in class, collaborate with your peers for 1-2+ hours, read for the daily assignments, and complete a quiz every day for 12 days (3 days are omitted, because those last three days are presentation time).

I understand that it’s an intersession course, but dang!  This class is incredibly interesting, and the professor is amazing, but that is just an incredible amount of work for 12 days and I don’t feel like going into hibernation to get what was supposed to be a ‘fun and interesting course’ to take during intersession.

Ah, well.  Things happen for a reason.

I found a Marketing class that revolves around marketing on the internet.  I’ve been involved and have witnessed independent projects go from design->development->release,  and the most critical problem that I see is the failure to get their name/branding OUT there!  Independent developers do not have any space for lack-luster effort if they expect to get at least a little compensation for their time and future projects.  Face it, you might not think that you care about making any money, but if you spend 3 to 4 years developing a project and crunch many, many hours, while spending your own money on the project for art assets, music, or other things, you are going to need some sort of motivation to continue pushing yourself to develop another independent project.  Likely, you will want to create a better game, so that money will only help you progress toward your dreams.

Now that I have another couple weeks before the semester starts, I plan on finishing the snowball fight, pending that I can get a distribution package to work.  ;\