Question of the Day, January 26, 2011

Aurora219

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I'd like to, but I wouldn't want to do it as a job. I'm more into the idea of a modding or small scheme creation.
 

joshuaayt

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My Life Plan sort of relies on me having at least minor success with independent games, to complement a shit, low paying job. If I can do that, I'll be happy. Yeah, success doesn't come easy- or often- to indie devs, but, damnit, I'm going to do it anyway.

Now, working for a large games company? The fact that "Work for Bethesda" is a running gag in my group aside, I can definitely see myself aiming for a job in the big leagues, regardless of income.
 

DanielBrown

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It would be intresting, in theory, but there's no chance in hell you could get into that business easily. Especially not in Sweden. Even if we do have a few game developers here we graduate tons and tons of nerds that want to make games every year.
 

Hoopybees

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It's something that I would absolutely love to do, and considered going on a course and getting the necissary skills and then I took a good look at the billions of other people and their mums I would be competing against and chose a proffession where I would at least have a chance at making some headway. Which is not to say that I've settled, I'm still working in the entertainment industry it's just a different sector is all.
 

OneOfTheMichael's

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I was chatting about this yesterday with my friends, he said he would be a video game tester, but i joked about that and said "no, what i will do is make the story for a videogame since you get paid much more and thats whats videogame companies are looking for nowadays".
 

Riobux

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I'd like to have a project to work on for fun, just a small little mod or full out game. However, I'm incapable of drawing (or doing any kind of art), I can't animate, I can not code at all and I'm not a musician. Closest is I have a lot of ideas (I think) and I can write pretty well (again, I think).
 

Projekt Spartan

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Already do! I have a year and a half left to go of a 4 year Game Development program, and hope to get a job in the industry by next summer :)
 

Ph33nix

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It would be cool and once I graduate I will have the necisarry skills for game dev but I could make 71k starting in the defense industry or about the same in consulting and about the same working for A different type of software dev that makes productivity software
 

Anton P. Nym

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I voted "pipe dream", but my actual vote would be, "I'd love to get back in, if I thought I could earn anything remotely close to that $50k figure these days instead of the starvation wages I earned in it back in the '90s." I also suspect that my skills are obsolete or too rusty these days.

-- Steve

PS: reCaptcha sucks; it's not even using real words anymore. "Expag Sdriften?" WTF?
 

Leviathan_

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Everybody wanted to be a game dev at some point.


I was thinking about rolling for Digital Arts and Entertainment or IT at first, but decided to roll for Tourism instead. Can't say I regret the choice.
 

Zydrate

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I've tried going into a technical college. It was too accelerated for me, and shot this dream to pieces.