<p>I've been wanting to get into the video game industry for a long time now. I've been researching the various jobs you could have making games. I was considering programming for a while, and that was only because I made the most money. I knew it probably wouldn't be my favorite thing to do as a designer. Actually, I changed my mind about that around a year ago, and decided that I'd try to go into whatever I thought would be the most enjoyable for me. </p>
<p>So anyway, I decided that I really want to become a designer.</p>
<p>Any of those jobs under "Game Designer" I'd love to have.</p>
<p>A while ago, I was planning on going to a school that specialized more toward video game design. Lately though, I've been hearing a lot about how going for a more general degree would be the smarter choice. A lot of those schools are trippy anyway. After looking at reviews for a lot of the more specialized schools, I saw lot of bad things about them. Stuff about how their degrees don't help or are worthless, or how they just want your money and you'll end up $100000 in debt after you graduate. Then I did more research on those types of schools in general and (of course) know to avoid them.</p>
<p>With those video game design school, from my experience reading reviews, it's either all bad, or it's half and half with one side saying "This school is amazing, got my degree, have a job in this, really helped me, 10/10" and the other half saying "Garbage school, learned nothing, didn't help, in debt, wasted my life." I really don't want to fall into that trap. </p>
<p>Well anyway, you saw the specifics of what I wanted to do in the industry in the link above. Now what classes would I have to major in for that? What would be some good minors/other classes to take on the side? Another thing I also want to do is to take classes on making music on a program. I've always loved to make music on the cheap programs I've had. Would I have room to take classes on that as well? Do they even have classes for that? I know there are music/audio engineering classes, but i'm not sure if that's what I want. I just need to do more research on that. I'm also trying to stay in the Southern California area.</p>