My 14 year old wants to be a games developer when he grows up. How do you get into that? What should he be experimenting with now (other than girls ) to be able to get into that whan he leaves school? I'm going to have to buy it though, so nothing too expensive. I thank you all....
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35,000 TPD - 28/11/2007, 19:15
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Originally posted by Apache View PostMy 14 year old wants to be a games developer when he grows up. How do you get into that? What should he be experimenting with now (other than girls ) to be able to get into that whan he leaves school? I'm going to have to buy it though, so nothing too expensive. I thank you all....I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light. -
Don't.
I was developing games when I was young and even managed to get interview in Bullfrog where senior person there told me something like this - in that business creative new games are hard to come by, you won't get finance - Electronic Arts that owns Bullfrog (maybe they shut them down now) makes most of money on boring games like Football 2008.
To add to this - young devs will be exploited big time and salary is crap.
These days games are very expensive, so people who are lucky to work on a well known title will do a small piece of the job - there ain't even glory of being one of 3-4 people who made top game, he will be another name at the end of the titles that noone will ever look at.Comment
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Zx81
Ahhh, nostalgia. I had a ZX81 with the rubber keyboard and the stupid little RAM pack that you had to wedge in place with a box of matches - it stayed in place just long enough for you to type in 400 lines of basic then it would move and wipe the lot - happy days.__________________
35,000 TPD - 28/11/2007, 19:15
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"salary is carp"
Strange method of payment - carp - Handy for tea though, or for starting a fish farm for when your development career grinds to a halt.__________________
35,000 TPD - 28/11/2007, 19:15
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Originally posted by AtW View PostYou can also say that salary is petals.__________________
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i'd say there must be more job satisfaction coding in the gaming industry than your typical 9-5, even if it does pay peanuts.. horses for courses i suppose..
i used to love my games but have hardly touched them in 6 years.. however, one game has smashed that barren spell: age of empires 3.. how i love this game!Comment
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Games take something like two years to develop these days. I know people who have and do work in the games industry, and they all say they get completely fed up of the game before long.Cats are evil.Comment
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