Preferably designer or producer, but since I'm in Computer Sciences at my University, I want to start off in the programming area.
Poll: Would you work in the Game Industry
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I live in Seattle. If I can ever graduate a college without being pulled out for financial reasons, I have a very high chance of working in games because there are so many different developers here.
I would be a programmer, I'm not creative enough to be an artist and I seem to have an understanding with code already
If the Developers weren't such tight arses with who they hire, yes. Since Australia has only ONE College/University for it and there aren't any aussie game developers, that dream is insta-crushed.
EDIT:That uni is in Sydney too, which is 500$ rent a week ALONE. so unless your a pompus rich shit or relatives already living there, your stuffed.
EDIT:That uni is in Sydney too, which is 500$ rent a week ALONE. so unless your a pompus rich shit or relatives already living there, your stuffed.
Yeah. That's pretty much why I'm going to college. I'm majoring as a 3D animator so I can work on bringing the character models to life. Of course, concept artist wouldn't be bad either.
If I had any talent in any of those ares ... why not? Assuming it doesn't all go to shit of course.
I wouldn't, simply because I don't want my video games to become work. I play them to kinda unwind from the day and have fun. If I was around them for that much of my day everyday, it would be an overload.
I wanna be a conceptual artist. Maybe get into character design.
I have a modicum of skill at it, I think, but here, judge for yourself.
I literally have hundreds more of these. Probably thousands.
To get paid for it would be awesome. And I actually look for ideas from people to work on, so I'd be fine with direction from a game dev that wanted something specific.
EDIT: Oh, and I'm pretty fast at it, too, which might make some producers with tight deadlines super happy. Most of my character designs take about 10 minutes. Literally.
I have a modicum of skill at it, I think, but here, judge for yourself.
I literally have hundreds more of these. Probably thousands.
To get paid for it would be awesome. And I actually look for ideas from people to work on, so I'd be fine with direction from a game dev that wanted something specific.
EDIT: Oh, and I'm pretty fast at it, too, which might make some producers with tight deadlines super happy. Most of my character designs take about 10 minutes. Literally.
That's my plan. I enjoy programming, but I'd like to have my ideas heard... So a relatively senior position. Designing would be better for that obviously, but as I said, I like programming. But, I'm still in school, and I'll be going to a University.
Designer. As boring as it would seem to most people, I would love to figure out the stats for something and whatever features it has to make balanced gameplay possible. I would also like being a producer, given the number of various ideas in different genres I have.
If I had to go to school JUST for a year even better as probably I would have to go to school for 3 to 5 years to qualify for that these days.heyheysg said:
I would like to be a tester.
Although they are payed shit. You forgot other roles, like marketing and management.As for your definitions could help googling a bit about each game industry profession instead of guessing each person role.
For example, here are possible roles of the producer (as you said plans stuff, when everybody in any job plans stuff):
- Negotiating contracts, including licensing deals
- Acting as a liaison between the development staff and the upper stakeholders (publisher or executive staff)
- Developing and maintaining schedules and budgets
- Overseeing creative (art and design) and technical development (game programming) of the game
- Ensuring timely delivery of deliverables (such as milestones)
- Scheduling timely quality assurance (testing)
- Arranging for beta testing and focus groups, if applicable
- Arranging for localization.
Game designer role includes the game art: concept artwork, soundtrack composing, world designing, level designing, script as all that makes part of conceiving (designing) the whole form the game will assume, and sets the boundaries for programmers to work and make that form/mold reality (virtual one thou).
