Do You Dream Of Working In Game Industry?

[nightwalker]

Ive always wanted to be a game programmer. Hell I even studied computer science in the University and finished it. But never really got the interest or better yet THE GUTS!!! to leave my job and get out of this island. But hey they say its never to late.

[Funk, E]

Nothing wrong with making an indie or casual game. Hell, that's where a lot of the sure money is nowadays, and you could do it in your spare time if you had the know-how and some help.

[Caboose]

I've had some wild fantasies before, but never seriously considered working in the games industry. Like most people, it's just a hobby to me and when you make a hobby into work you tend not to enjoy it as much.

[lordofduct]

My room mate and I have asperations to be in the world of 'Game Design'. He actually attended school for 3D Game Design and Game Development. I on the other hand didn't. Right now we "try" to make video games; I wouldn't call it successful, but it is fun.

He takes care of art and the sort, I take care of code, and together we do the 'Game Design' part (the actual idea for the game). So far I've been playing with C# with XNA and Flash with actionscript 3.0.

In a couple weeks we'll have a website up for visitors to check out and with some flash games available to play.

[Curlypaul]

I'm a business software programmer and I love what I do but I'm starting to get a bit bored. I would love to take the time to better my skills as a game programmer to take it to the next level and actually get paid for it

[D.D.D.]

Yeah I lost my desire to work in the game industry after working in it a bit.
QA at Virgin was okay but it was in the days before insane crunches.
Starting my own dev.team with friends, getting a dev.kit, designing a game, producing it, and trying to get friends to do it for free (who also wanted to get into the industry so free worked at the time) made me realize that... I'd rather play games than make them. That and getting a producer position w/o programming experience was mighty unlikely made me give up completely on any further work in the game industry; from a creative standpoint. I still will try to get a translator position if the pay is good enough somewhere in Japan or perhaps an interpreter gig.

[Niode]

My dream job would be to work in the games industry to work as a sound engineer. Im at university studying music technology and want to go into the music industry when I get my degree and ultimately combine my two joys in my life and become a sound engineer for game audio production!

[kinn]

Always dreamed of working in the games industry. Of course its hard to get your foot in the door.

Tried my hand at programming by just dont have the brain for it. Last hope was to try and become a journalist or start my own gaming blog. But that idea fizzed out due to my lack of know how.

[NebachadnezzaR]

For some time I wanted to be a videogame journalist. At first it sounded just like a wild idea, but when the opportunity came to write to what is probably the biggest Portuguese website about games, it started to sound like it could really be my future. Unfortunately (or fortunately, it really depends on the perspective) I gave up on that after 2 and a half years of reviewing games.

Trust me, you have no idea what a stressful job this is unless you try it. Playing games from morning till dawn, games that you don't like (whether it's not your type or they simply suck), and, even when you have the opportunity to test a game you really like, having to play it straight in just a couple of days for the review to be ready on time, it's hell...

Some time ago I've found out that I'm playing less and less frequently as I grow up (not that I'm liking videogames any less, it's still my favourite hobby, I just end up spending less time playing them) and that I enjoy them much more if I just play the games I like at my own rhythm, so I gave up on the "dream".

I don't regret anything, though, and I have more respect than ever for the people who do it, because now I know exactly how hard it is to be a videogame journalist.

[Chaos Jr]

I always wanted to be a Games Artist since I was around 9 or 10. Although, I feel like Games Designing or Programming seems more appropriate for me after reading more on the development of video games.