Video game design?

nintendo9713 · Post by **nintendo9713** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:28 am

Well, it's that time in life when you choose a career.I'm a junior in high school. Right now, I'm seriously considering Video game design. Please don't post things useless or flaming comments. I just want to know if any of ya'll know some things about it. I'm just curious about colleges, and if you finish it, companies that hire such as Bungie, Epic, etc. If you get hired, do you even last long in the industy such as when you turn 40 and you lose imagination, are you pretty much forced to retire? I'm also considering hardware computer engineering but I don't know if i'm capable of it ><. I just want to know if anyone knows anything or any site that has game design processes. (Yes i've googled it, but you might know one I don't or something) and I jsut want to see what all is involved. Again please don't flame or try to "discourage" I guess. Thanks for anything

xbox7887 · Post by **xbox7887** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:38 am

Only junior high? You've got a long ways to go before you have to make any of those decisions and chances are you'll end up changing your mind a few times between then

nintendo9713 · Post by **nintendo9713** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:51 am

nintendo9713 wrote:I'm a junior in high school.

lol.

warlord · Post by **warlord** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:53 am

xbox7887 wrote:Only junior high? You've got a long ways to go before you have to make any of those decisions and chances are you'll end up changing your mind a few times between then

oh i dont know i decided i wanted to do electronics when i was 7 and now im 19 doing NVQ3 electronics at college.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:03 am

I knew what I wanted to do with my life when I was in 4th grade, and right now I do it without pay. Computer programming, particularly game and web design.

Trulife8342 · Post by **Trulife8342** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:17 pm

AI Engineering.

Edit:oh damn I thought this topic was about what you wanted to do for a career, lol I feel dumb, anyways, one thing I can say is learn everything there is to learn about the subject. Im sure you'll make it

stephen10101 · Post by **stephen10101** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:20 pm

Well I don't think you will be "forced" to retire at a certain age, my friend's dad got offered a job at Microsoft doing something with the xbox 360, so there is at least one 40-something year old doing game design.

SHOUTrvb · Post by **SHOUTrvb** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:21 pm

Well, best thing to do is study hard into the trade now so you'll already be able to do most things outside of school. From there getting hired or even starting your own design company probably wouldn't be too difficult. I'm only a sophomore, and I've considered game design. However, psychiatry is what I'm leaning into the most.

Ketchup_Bomb · Post by **Ketchup_Bomb** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:37 pm

Don't think 'Game Design' is the Grail of all jobs. You will not get into a great company making great games until you get your hands dirty with horrible ones.

Don't jump in before you know what the job descriptions actually are. A lot of young kids think that 'Game Design' means you get to play Halo with Bungie.
It doesn't, and trust me, you'll probably find yourself going down a much different road than what you think you want to in two or three years.

I thought it'd be cool to go into programming. I tried a very low level introductory course to programming, and I hated it.
I can only pray that it was because it was such a low level course.

galvination · Post by **galvination** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:43 pm

Video game design isn't sitting down and playing beta versions of games all day. It's sitting at a computer typing code. If you want to do that with your life good luck. Also without ties to a reputable company you'll end up freelancing for a while which usually causes financial problems because you're trying to pay for game projects on limited income.

My neighbor was in highschool back in the 90's and he freelanced for 4 years and now he works for Rockstar games.

nintendo9713 · Post by **nintendo9713** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:41 pm

It's not that broad "game designer" I want. Just more of the modeling 3d artist per say. I don't expect to sit down and beta games all day, I think of me actually sitting at a desk making high detailed levels and such. I just don't want this to be like CSI stuff. Once that show came out, EVERYONE wanted to do it, but only very large cities have one. I know a lot of kids want to be "game designers". I've tried C++ and VB. I Phaled. I just want to see what ya'll know about being a 3d Artist in game designs.

bricksarefun · Post by **bricksarefun** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:46 pm

Trulife8342 wrote:AI Engineering.

Edit:oh **** I thought this topic was about what you wanted to do for a career, lol I feel dumb, anyways, one thing I can say is learn everything there is to learn about the subject. Im sure you'll make it

Yea you TBZ and a certain other person doing a bit of AI would be the most kickass AI ever

On-topic: Video game design isn't really a thing that just anyone can get into, and a lot of schools don't teach it. You should think about a back-up.

Crazy_Colombiano · Post by **Crazy_Colombiano** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:50 pm

wow im thinking in the same carrer and im in too in middle school going on to high school
and i believe there is this school called full sail and i heard its a good school (i might want to go there)

Dootuz · Post by **Dootuz** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:13 pm

School is ok... but i perfre to just learn everything my self heres the game im making.

Thats the game in my sig. MAJOR update since my sig!

I'll make a thread for it once I get farther

Dootuz

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:21 pm

Dootuz wrote:School is ok... but i perfre to just learn everything my self heres the game im making.

Thats the game in my sig. MAJOR update since my sig!

I'll make a thread for it once I get farther

Dootuz

Uh, are you coding it yourself? Or are you using some preset-masher?

Crazy_Colombiano · Post by **Crazy_Colombiano** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:53 pm

Dootuz wrote:School is ok... but i perfre to just learn everything my self heres the game im making.

Thats the game in my sig. MAJOR update since my sig!

I'll make a thread for it once I get farther

Dootuz

eh im only 13 so i guess learning it by ur self is ok (i still think thats an aswem school and only 4 hrs away from here >_<)
nice came dootuz

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:05 pm

Well, I dunno what your chances of getting a job in the real world with these skills would be. I mean, more and more people want to get into the game design field as more of these next gen games come out. I mean, in these times games are such a popular thing, a lot of people are going to be interested on having a career involved with them. It all really depends on how well you do.

Crazy_Colombiano · Post by **Crazy_Colombiano** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:07 pm

JK-47 wrote:Well, I dunno what your chances of getting a job in the real world with these skills would be. I mean, more and more people want to get into the game design field as more of these next gen games come out. I mean, in these times games are such a popular thing, a lot of people are going to be interested on having a career involved with them. It all really depends on how well you do.

yea (thank you math and science)

Dootuz · Post by **Dootuz** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:26 pm

Alexander wrote:
Dootuz wrote:School is ok... but i perfre to just learn everything my self heres the game im making.

Thats the game in my sig. MAJOR update since my sig!

I'll make a thread for it once I get farther

Dootuz
Uh, are you coding it yourself? Or are you using some preset-masher?

No idea what a

preset-masher

is. Umm... I museing a egnion and codeing the rest from there

ExileLord · Post by **ExileLord** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:28 pm

I considered video game design but I'm pretty sure I'm just going to do general programming (haven't picked any specifics yet) or a network engineer.

I hope no one minds me linking to a game I was working on before. ;\

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