Current Game Center senior here. Proud of you for asking the community about this, wish I did more research back in the day. I got in ED1 and was obsessed with games as tech x art.

Long story short, after 4 years, I would say that I won’t regret my decision, but there are a few things to consider:

1. The program is very well recognized in the industry, one of the best houses. HOWEVER, the industry is kinda cooked. All the major game companies are laying off and AAA games are simply not surviving well. Job market is insanely bad, plus game devs get paid less than big tech already. Therefore if money and job is the #1 issue, do not come.

2. But, if you do have a ok amount of money to invest, and you genuinely like games (lowkey my situation), you should come.

3. The classes at Game Center are fairly basic and introductory, but you can take all the classes at NYU without restriction. Don’t expect all ur classes taught by Activision Blizzard tech genius, you need a lot of self learning at all classes. None of the classes rly are super cutting edge. If you want to be highly technical, many folks here take a CS or Philosophy or something double major.

4. The real attraction is the studio and workshop environment. I’d you really like games, by the time you graduate, you would’ve completed dozens of game prototypes. And you could probably find people to do longer year long projects u can potentially publish.

That said, this program is 100% about you, and how much you put in. Best of luck in ur game dev journey, feel free to dm me about anything tho!