hi all,
I am currently a 19 year old qualified carpenter and joiner, but have recently realized that carpentry just isn’t what i want to do for the rest of my life, I really want to be a game designer as i have a great imagination, good computer skills, excellent sketching skills and an avid interest in the console gaming industry.
the problem i have is that i don’t have any idea where to start, i thought maybe a college course would be the best place to start but my local connexions (careers advice centre) just kept referring me to different I.T courses even though no matter how hard i stressed that these courses are inappropriate, they just said how these are essential skills needed for this particular career path.
my distrust in connexions comes from way back when i was a school leaver and they referred me to a course called 3D spatial design in which i was apparently training to be an architect, yet when i had spoken to a few architects they had told me this course was for interior designers and that i needed to be studying construction planning, structural stress management or technical engineering!
I don’t know any game designers and therefore cannot speak to anyone about it, and to be honest i don’t think I’d even trust the colleges advice! I have searched endless courses online in pursuit of my dream only to find endless I.T courses that don’t relate to gaming in any way.
please help with my dilemma and help me to lead the life I dream of!!!
any advice will be greatly appreciated and thanks for reading =D
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To be a game designer you pretty well have to have taught yourself C++ by the time you are 16 and already written some pretty cool games on your own. Then gone to college for 4 years of Computer Science and in the mean time, played every game since DOnley Kong.
Then when you graduate you have to work 90 hours a week until you burn out at age 25 and retire to a career at Starbucks.
Because you have to love that field so much that you eat, sleep and breathe games and the programming and design of them.
Maybe this will help.