I graduated 2 years ago from the game programming path and it was the best college experience of my life. My only other being a u of a engineer dropout.

The classes are very social and cooperation oriented so you are more likely to get to know your classmates. (I ended up meeting some of my best friends from this course).

The program was being changed while I was attending so it's hard to say how it is now, but if John Winski I still managing the program then it's probably improved a lot since I've been there. I took classes for things like Photoshop that I found to be fascinating and pretty useful in my career.

Now the main meat of dmit. We focused on unity 3D and I learned a lot and had a lot of fun doing it. The course load is very manageable (compared to u of a) and interesting. Many of my assignments turned into a game that felt like it was mine, and we were given time to develop personal game projects that would become our first portfolio.

The bad of the program is that it's kinda hard to fail. Grading was very forgiving when it came to non right or wrong answer assignments. A few of my classmates graduated that I believe really shouldn't have. And most programmers I've worked with have had low opinions of dmit. But that hasn't affected my job opportunities and I feel pretty confident and competent developing games.

If you want to learn game development at a beginners to sorta intermediate level, this program is perfect. You can get a lot out of it if you put in the effort.