Most of us love this stuff, creating games with the clickteam products. But who really wants to go into the gaming industry as a career?
Is there anybody here who is part of a production company? What kind of field is your speciality? Programming, graphics, sound, music, producing? I personally had to get into a creative industry, I would still love to get into the gaming industry but I'll stay with my movies for the time being. The gaming industry is booming at the moment but I still don't feel the love in games too much anymore. I think alot of them are made just for $$$ these days and don't have the spirit the older games had. Don't get me wrong, there are still great games out now.
So yeah what's your view on the industry and would you ever consider being apart of it?
Also, what do you do for a career if your not in the gaming one?
My present plan is to work on freeware and shareware in my spare time while doing regular IT work, and at some point eventually work in an independant commercial group. Maybe. You can't just walk into a design role, and I'm not particularly interested in starting as a coder either. QA maybe, but even then I'd just treat it as my 'regular' job and stick to the original plan.
I plan to study Computer Games Design, or Computer Arts at university, so I'd definitely be looking for a job in the games industry. Perhaps even start my own one later on in life (when I have a really good idea).
I am using games for education right now, and wanna keep doing that for a while. Currently I am teaching a group of kids how to create games using k&p.
I don't know yet. I'm designing an interface for some medical/kids machine to be put in clinics. Same team I'm working with also have plans on developinp for the Wii once uni is finished, if it actually kicks off I'll be there. Much rather stick to writing at the moment anyways.
I agree with Edwin Street in that I don't really like the way that the games industry is going at the moment - a family friend has just joined EA, which I would think of as a pretty terrible job due to the way that the company treats its employees. At the moment I'm working with a company that builds online database systems, so my job is part of what I'm interested in, and I can write games in my spare time.
I think that now, a lot of what the independent game-making communities create is genuinely much better than the endless GTA/Halo-cloned garbage being produced by the "real" industry.
Actually, I'm thinking about heading the journalism route. (Hence TIGSource)
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27th December, 2006 at 18:52:14 -
I'm studying IT, and when I graduate I have a whole field of things computer related I can choose to do. I'll see it gaming will be in it. If not, at least software developing.
I'd like to have my own game business on the internet, i'd work all day on it.
But i wouldnt like to work at some game company, doing some guy's commercial 3D platformer game about christmas or something, to make him make some bux, doing overtime and stuff. I rather work at something else, with less hours, that gives me free time to do what i really want to do.
You and everybody else Dogzer, that's a good plan but you need to already be rich to afford your hobby / online company, or have a solid, steady "real" job already for backup.
I'll keep making games for hobby mostly, but if anything ever takes off in the future I'm all for it.
And yeah, I'd much rather see a lot of original games on TDC than the mad clones that plague every Gamestop anyhow.
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I currently work for EA and yes they suck but its better than nothing, im a tester atm but plan to use this job as a steeping stone into somthing more. Graphics is where i want to head but not with EA, preferably with somone less mainstream, and a company that still makes games for fun not just for money!
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