Did u do it as a BSc? My uni had one of the pioneers of motion capture as a lecturer and he used to talk about how they kept wanting the uni to just teach how to make games with commercial engines but he kept resisting and insisting on teaching how to make an engine in the first place. That uni is now highly regarded with alot of awards for its games dev course so he was right.
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I think I can speak for alot but.... We're out of nuggets to speculate on :/