Mind you this is a "decal", which are kind of like clubs in a sense, with student instructors that teach classes more for personal edification purposes than "omg legitimate course of study!"
Other DeCals include: The Ethics of Star Trek, Bookworlds: Introduction to Mythological Creatures - Here There Be Dragons, and I Keeps it Real: Race Relations in Chappelle's Show
They do get credit for it though so I guess it's reasonably serious. According to the guy leading the course, there's some high level math involved, and:
"How to get a professor to sign off on a "gaming" class? Well, I did a few presentations, one to the sponsoring professor, to demonstrate the rigorousness, analysis and thought that this class can provoke. Then, I submitted various papers to the dean of the business school. After that, registered with various university offices ... it was a pain, trust me."
I got credit at Berkeley for some pretty silly things let me tell you ;)
Sure, you have to have reasonable content, but for example, I had a friend who led a decal on Asian Soap Operas. Any professor can sign off on pretty much any decal, and she managed to get an EE professor to sponsor said decal, so its not as if the bar is all that high. ;)
still, it's like 1 or 2 units P/NP, so they only count really for the overall 120 unit requirement (though things may have changed in the past 7 years, who knows). when I was at cal, the hardest thing for me was making sure that I didn't go over the max unit limit (if you had > 8 semesters and > 200 units you were booted). luckily, I finished my degrees in four years so it didn't turn out to be an issue.
Even in combinatorial game theory, people tended to focus on simple games that could be solved.
My friend was considered doing work on game theory for more complex games like Starcraft. Apparently there was one research group at the University of Alberta, and not a whole lot elsewhere. However, I do know that Stanford has a videogame competition: in particular, you make games. http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs248-videogame-competi...
Checkout http://www.gomtv.net/ if you are interested in "studying" independently, but don't know Corean =). They flew an English speaking guy to Corea to provide live commentary on their league matches. Recommended!
This is a course about the theory of the game -- very analytical. Lots of math, apparently. What you're describing is much more art than science.
So if you wanted to get better at it, you'd take a studio type class where you and other enthusiasts would practice together, show off your technique, and "critique" one another.
I was just thinking that it would be fun to play Starcraft with some of the people on this site. Do any of you still play? I don't play a lot, but when I do, this is the account I use:
So basically in korea the major source of income is professional gamers? Ill dig that.
Did they realize that a person with say 2 hrs time every day for 3 months and 20 dollars to buy the game + some form reading time can figure this out on their own? Shit I just described every college course.
