Okay I don't know how I can put this but next year I'm going to college to get my main credits out of the way but when I do major in game design it will be like 2012 (Assuming that I start next year and take 2 years) so if I start game design in 2012 and spend four years trying to earn a degree it will be like 2016 when I begin designing my first game and quite frankly I'm both excited and disappointed at the same time.
I like the way game design is moving forward in technology but that thing that really grinds my gears is that I want to make games reminiscent to the style of the NES and SNES days from the 80s and 90s but with "Mind Control" and whatnot I'm afraid my ideas will be rendered outdated and obsolete. Now don't get me wrong I like the idea of Mind Control and Virtual Reality but I'm not designing games where you are "virtually there" because that would require playing as yourself and not a fictional character (Mario, Sonic, etc.). I have optimism for gaming in 2020 but I just wish I had been born in like 1968 so I could have been a game designer in late 80s. I was born in 1988 and I'm currently 21.
I just think that realistic gaming is taking off too early. Gaming has came a long way in 37 years If you think about it. It was 1972 when Pong came out, then the 80s came and games became more advanced with the help of the NES, finally in the early 90s games were going 16-bit and by the mid 90s games were going 3D, at the turn of the century 3D graphics were getting better and better, now when the Wii came out 3 years ago, motion control began. Now the idea for one of my games is an RPG and it combines Earthbound with Chrono Trigger which were two of the best RPGs for the SNES back in 1995. I'm just worried that my ideas will be rendered obsolete because of this new technology!
Evidently you're still stuck in 1989! Because both the Wii HD and Xbox 720 will have motion control but in a few decades we will have mind control, remember that movie "Gamer" that came out a few months ago, that's the future of gaming.
It's not a joke, I'm really going into game design. I'm just sick of all the M-rated games out there these days. Would it kill for people to make more E-rated games?
I meant the "mind control" thing was a joke. Or at least, I hope it was. I have no idea what is going on here. And if you really think E-rated games are dead, I have to wonder what site you think you're on.
Thats what my best friend went for and he got a decent internship down in AZ.
No, I want to be a game designer not for a stupid internship!
You totally missed the point. Must have went clear over your head. While he was in school he had to do what you call a '' stupid '' internship to graduate. Now he has a good job in game design. From what I have been told most schools require you to do a internship.
An internship is basically like on the job training. You work in an actual video game studio. You work with current professionals that are already in the business.
An internship is basically like on the job training. You work in an actual video game studio. You work with current professionals that are already in the business.
Oh, kinda like in Code Monkeys and Grandma's Boy, right?
I do not get G4 where I live so I cannot comment on Code Monkeys. If your talking about the movie Grandma's Boy I have not seen it, nor do I want to. Have you decided on a school by the way ?
Ok... Paragraphs will get you far in life... Really. Apart from sparing people from having to pick through a wall of text, it allows you to organize your thoughts in an organized manner... That block of text just seems to go all over the place and the only thing I get out of it is that you want to go into game design.
On another note, you don't have to wait till you finish your degree to start designing and making games... Actually I would suggest making your own games while you study... For a creative job like game design, most employers will want to see a portfolio of your previous work before they hire you. Sure some assigned projects from class will be nice, but fleshing it out with games and design ideas that you created on your own time will help as well.
As for internships, they are a great way to get experience while studying for your degree. And game design is one of those jobs where you probably won't be hired as a lead designer straight out of school. You need to work your way up. Its like that in every profession. Well... Unless you start your own studio.
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