Current Events > Remember as a TEENAGER your ASPIRATION was to work in a VIDEOGAME company?

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Yeah well dont

its full of man-childs and circle jerking with no strong leadership

even wonder why videogames get delayed and have half baked ideas? This is why

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* work for company =\= own company

* help make game = \ = kinda made the game

That was never a dream of mine.

I was the geek who wanted to bring anime-style animation to the US. And by anime-style, I mean PG-13 content like blood, character deaths, coarse language, and some sexuality.

Aside from stuff like Bojack Horseman or Harley Quinn, mature animation never really happened in the West.

FortuneCookie posted...

That was never a dream of mine.

I was the geek who wanted to bring anime-style animation to the US. And by anime-style, I mean PG-13 content like blood, character deaths, coarse language, and some sexuality.

Aside from stuff like Bojack Horseman or Harley Quinn, mature animation never really happened in the West.

My man!!!

they just dont get it....

Oh yeah, when I was a kid I always said I wanted to be a video game tester

MICHALECOLE posted...

Oh yeah, when I was a kid I always said I wanted to be a video game tester

Imagine getting to test games like Big Rigs or Ninja Bread Man.

randy_123r posted...

lmao same. how foolish I was

Tighten up the graphics

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Remember as a TEENAGER your ASPIRATION was to work in a VIDEOGAME company?

what no
thats a horribly unstable career path for most people
its full of arbitrary conditions continuously out of your control with a high risk of employers thinking you'll "age out" of usefulness after 50

game staff get butchered and thrown under the bus by company heads all the time because theres always more idealistic potheads racing in to replace them

to succeed, have years of fun, and rake in decent retirement from game development is like winning a lottery that 98% of applicants CANT win
i mean shoot your shot, just dont ever expect it to pay off and keep you afloat by itself lol
thats like buying a lottery ticket so you can use the winnings to pay off your rent...

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My mom told me I'd never be able to make any money by paying video games

Can't believe she would just lie like that

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Going to college for stuff like that will fuck you over hard. I was goaded into persuing animation. Folks, don't push your kid to do stupid shit, unless you actually helped develop their skills long before.

I still wanna do indie game dev >_> I got some stuff on the back burner but im too busy with real job. Honestly my dream would be to make a living from game dev but I know its not realistic

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FortuneCookie posted...

That was never a dream of mine.

I was the geek who wanted to bring anime-style animation to the US. And by anime-style, I mean PG-13 content like blood, character deaths, coarse language, and some sexuality.

Aside from stuff like Bojack Horseman or Harley Quinn, mature animation never really happened in the West.

Castlevania was pretty big wasn't it? There is some new one on Amazon too, Invincible or something.

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Just get involved (baby steps start slow). Making programming & graphics mapping can be really awesome sometimes worth all that haaaaaaard working looooooooong hours. Its s amazing to have something really together at the end into the light with happy accidents and quintessence and all that self-to-group edification that comes with producing a really good popular game. Then again, we also play little games amongst ourselves I enjoy just playing games I make myself sometimes tbh.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Oh yeah, when I was a kid I always said I wanted to be a video game tester

Same for me. Honestly I never found anything that replaced that idealized thought, but I moved on to something else anyway.

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Community is important too. Even if you arent a dev theres a million other ways to get involved and not even by necessarily buying anything...........

I would love to design a game. I have MS paint sketches of levels and boss fights and ideas written down about mechanics and stuff. I just don't want to do any of the technical work, like coding, art, or music.

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Who else thought as a kid that being a video game tester meant you just played games and told the developers how good it was and what might make it better lol

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That was never my aspiration.

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Are you a techi3v? Do you code?

paint? Draw? Games are kind of everything

maybe theres somewhere here for you

Nope

No I've never wanted a job.

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Oi, yeah. That was, admittedly, something I wanted to do.
Then I got into wanting to work in film and television more around high school and shifted more towards that.

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As a little kid yes. Not a teenager.

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