I’ll have to say that learning how to program and design for computer games is a lot tougher than it sounds. I dabbled in it a few years ago with OpenGL programming, but didn’t manage to do more than the simple stuff. While these college courses probably attempt to teach you all of that and more, creating pc games is getting easier and easier through tools. It’s much easier to make mods to existing games, and they even have tools now to create entire role-playing games. I’m guessing that soon tools will be released so that the “average” geek could create his own game experience and release it to the public, basically becoming the game masters of the D&D days.

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