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what do you nerds do for living? - discuss career possibilities
ahofle:
--- Quote from: SNAAKE on May 31, 2009, 05:50:08 pm ---game tester/developer - anyone here in the gaming industry? how the jesus do you get this business? I know you probably need associate or bachelors and experience with animation or whatever. is this worth going after??
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"tighten up the graphics"
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danny_galaga:
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it's a living :dunno
csa3d:
--- Quote from: SNAAKE on May 31, 2009, 05:50:08 pm ---you may be asking why now? because now I am legally allowed to work in the US thats why lol. so what does everyone here do for living? right now I sell things on ebay and going to college but dont really know what I wanna do. possible interest.
game tester/developer - anyone here in the gaming industry? how the jesus do you get this business? I know you probably need associate or bachelors and experience with animation or whatever. is this worth going after??
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I am an animator in the games industry. Have been doing that now for 8 years. While you don't "need" a college degree to get into the industry, it's difficult to know all the things you are supposed to just know on your own. Some do it that way, but many more seek higher education. When I left high school, I looked into colleges with a 4 year degree in computer graphics and had animation as well. Out of the tiny selection at the time, I choose to go to Ringling College in Florida. There are many more schools that teach computer animation and even some specializing in Gaming Degrees. Southern Methodist University has a program they call the "Guildhall", which is a pretty good way to go as well. A word to the wise, don't look into that school that wants you to tighten up the graphics; it's laughable at best. You want a school taught by folks who actually make games.
For the record, this career is a lot of fun, but it's a lot of hours and hard work to make it. If you're married, make sure you research that and make sure your family is as committed as yourself. We also don't sit around playing games all day and get paid. It's still largely software development.
-csa
drventure:
I'm a software dev, pretty exclusively commercial software.
I've always been quite partial to VB, so I've worked with msdos bascom, moving to PDS (back in the day) and then to VB1-6 and now mostly VB.NET. I've also done quite a bit of C/C++, x86 asm, and recently been dabbling in javascript, php, and flash.
I think that's why working on this cab has been so much fun, it'd good to do something +non-virtual+ for a change!
HaRuMaN:
Aerospace engineer. :)
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