You really have to be passionate if you want to be able to become fluent in both the language your games are written in and in general game and software development practices. If you take game programming as just a job then you’re not going to be able to stick it out for the long term and make awesome games. I’ve seen people who are excellent C coders who want to make games as it’s a bit of a challenge to them. They write some awesome code, but it just seems to be missing something, that intangible ‘it’ that makes certain games awesome and others just boring. From what I’ve seen, for most people this passion is born out of a passion for playing games. As I was growing up I lived and breathed games, reading every magazine I could and visiting the hyperactive website every day to find out any news or secrets I could. As I became older I started having ideas for how to make the games I was playing better and ideas for entirely new games. I think passion is the single biggest factor that helps me to move forward and try and become the best games developer I can. This isn’t something you can learn or read books to attain, it’s just something that you either have, or you don’t. So whether you’re in the games industry or hoping to make it one day, please remember that passion for the games you play and make is your strongest quality. Make sure you nurture it by continuing to play and love games and never shut out the little part of your brain that is constantly coming up with ways to better the industry and drive it forward into the future.
Starting On: June 13, 2012
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Posted On: June 13, 2012 06:03 UTC
ID: 201330438
Category: Software Development > Game Development
Skills: game-design,game-testing,internet-research,research-papers,data-encoding,game-development,games,software-development,make
Country: Philippines
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