This is a lot like saying "I love Pizza Hut's pizza, I really think making pizza for them would be cool!" That's how irrelevant loving video games is, it's not the same as loving to sit and code for many hours, or sitting in on brainstorming meetings to make artists revise their sketches.
It's obvious that a pizza-making job isn't for most people, but not as obvious for game-making jobs so a lot of people don't get it.
If what you really like to do is to sit for hours on hours listening to game testers talking about level difficulty and each time having to move the edge of a certain jump a few pixels to get the right difficulty, then you can become a game designer.
A video game team is made up of three main parts Artists, Programmers and Designers. And each one is so much more than its title, Designers don't just think up ideas for games, Artists Don't just draw characters and Programmers don't just make the characters move or fight. People if your only reason for getting in the industry is that you want to play video games, and do what you would consider interesting work, don't even bother going to the job interview
@TubbyBtch What position should i study for When i have 4-5 years of Photoshop experience? I want to go into the industry but I am unsure of what job would be best suited for me, I want to either work with images or story board.
@gscodeseeker: Both of those jobs are extremely difficult to break into. Have you ever thought of work as a texture artist? I would also try to broaden your skillset.There probably some people in the game industry who only use PS, but they are very few! No matter what some of the blockheads here say, you will start at the bottom. The game industry is not the glamour life some envision. It is not "Gandmas Boy" sitting around all day playing foosball and having intense fragfests. It is work!
A game designer doesn't need to know how to program. A game designer is more similar to a comic book author. Creativity more than coding. You should tell them to be English lit. majors.
@JaySee5 Not true, a game designer doesn't have to be an with C++ and DirectX/Opengl but has to understand what is feasiable in software development, what's not, how much time is put in and how many programmers it will require to get the game done on time for the games realease. I agree that there is more to being a game designer than coding, but it is alot better if the designers are atleast able to make a game using BASIC, or python so they understand what can and can't be programmed .
@BlobOfChaos No, it would be better if the designer DOESN'T know the current perceived limits of programming and computing. Then he/she would be free to create a new and revolutionary games with a free imagination. Your kind of thinking churns out the crap cookie cutter games that litter the shelves. A game designer should design, then either scale back or have a team of programmers good enough to think of new code to do what the designer imagined.
This is a lot like saying "I love Pizza Hut's pizza, I really think making pizza for them would be cool!" That's how irrelevant loving video games is, it's not the same as loving to sit and code for many hours, or sitting in on brainstorming meetings to make artists revise their sketches.
It's obvious that a pizza-making job isn't for most people, but not as obvious for game-making jobs so a lot of people don't get it.
ccricers 1 month ago
If what you really like to do is to sit for hours on hours listening to game testers talking about level difficulty and each time having to move the edge of a certain jump a few pixels to get the right difficulty, then you can become a game designer.
xrunxnowx 8 months ago
A video game team is made up of three main parts Artists, Programmers and Designers. And each one is so much more than its title, Designers don't just think up ideas for games, Artists Don't just draw characters and Programmers don't just make the characters move or fight. People if your only reason for getting in the industry is that you want to play video games, and do what you would consider interesting work, don't even bother going to the job interview
Blacky98981 8 months ago
JayCee, you're a moron. It takes money to make games. You have no idea just how much your original idea would be raped by all the hands in your pie.
EnragedSephiroth 9 months ago 9
A few responses:
#1) I have been a professional programmer for the last 32 years.
#2) please notice that it says "Game Development" not game design. There is a big difference...
#3) If you truly think that there is no programming skill involved in making top-flight games, you are high!
Of course, you can always download GameMaker and think you're a hotshot game developer...but we know the truth!
TubbyBtch 9 months ago 14
@TubbyBtch than make some good game dude
KonanNai 5 months ago
@TubbyBtch What position should i study for When i have 4-5 years of Photoshop experience? I want to go into the industry but I am unsure of what job would be best suited for me, I want to either work with images or story board.
gscodeseeker 4 months ago
@gscodeseeker: Both of those jobs are extremely difficult to break into. Have you ever thought of work as a texture artist? I would also try to broaden your skillset.There probably some people in the game industry who only use PS, but they are very few! No matter what some of the blockheads here say, you will start at the bottom. The game industry is not the glamour life some envision. It is not "Gandmas Boy" sitting around all day playing foosball and having intense fragfests. It is work!
TubbyBtch 4 months ago
I said good day! L
Kendo121e 9 months ago
A game designer doesn't need to know how to program. A game designer is more similar to a comic book author. Creativity more than coding. You should tell them to be English lit. majors.
JaySee5 10 months ago
@JaySee5 Not true, a game designer doesn't have to be an with C++ and DirectX/Opengl but has to understand what is feasiable in software development, what's not, how much time is put in and how many programmers it will require to get the game done on time for the games realease. I agree that there is more to being a game designer than coding, but it is alot better if the designers are atleast able to make a game using BASIC, or python so they understand what can and can't be programmed .
BlobOfChaos 10 months ago
@BlobOfChaos No, it would be better if the designer DOESN'T know the current perceived limits of programming and computing. Then he/she would be free to create a new and revolutionary games with a free imagination. Your kind of thinking churns out the crap cookie cutter games that litter the shelves. A game designer should design, then either scale back or have a team of programmers good enough to think of new code to do what the designer imagined.
JaySee5 10 months ago
Are you kidding its way easier to program video games than it is to play it. I am getting my ass kicked in dead space 2 even on casual.
Aiursrage3 11 months ago
@Aiursrage3
1.st You haven't try programming :)
2.nd Maybe you just suck at playing game? I finished dead space 1 on hardest mode
CodeHei 11 months ago
@CodeHei Actually I know how to program and have a few apps in the app store. The point was as you get older its alot easier to code than game. :P
Aiursrage3 11 months ago
@Aiursrage3 EPIC #LOL
Meja69 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
This is wrong. Look at Q.U.B.E
Foxay089 11 months ago
I make games and Im a high school drop-out, why? raw talent. this vid is funny
MrROTD 1 year ago
@MrROTD Link to all these games made on raw talent?
Dualhammers 11 months ago
@MrROTD doubtful
boilerbuzz 11 months ago
6 times a year? Seriously? That's horrendous.
sillygramcracker 1 year ago