Game Developer

  How is game development as a career?

Game development is challenging. Games take months to years to develop, so games, in reality, take thousands of individual work hours, not even combined development hours. That goes for the good as much as the bad ones. Somebody spent thousands of hours making the games you hate, and someone also spent as much if not more time making the games that you love as well. Game development as a career can be-

Competitive

More people want to work in video game development than jobs available. You have to be a really capable candidate to get a good job.

Unstable

The average game developer has four jobs in five years. Too frequently, companies go out of business, or teams are laid off as soon as their projects are completed.

Stressful

There are deadlines to meet, and the more critical the deadline, the more likely problems preventing you from meeting them arise.

Exhausting

Sixty-five work-weeks are not uncommon in this field; as deadlines approach, the hours can be even longer and longer.

Imbalanced

As in work-life balance, it's getting better, but it still can be hard maintaining a family life.

Fairly-well paying

The average game developer's salary in 2021 was $101,644/yr. Artists earned $$65,000/yr, designers $74,000/yr, audio professionals $$150,000K. That's only when they were employed and earning a salary, of course.

Fulfilling

But only if you have an extreme passion for game development, don't expect to have creative control over your project, and equally, enjoy working on your own and as part of a team.

Final Thought

Game developers' careers can be very successful if you come up with awesome ideas that people immediately fall in love with, find addictive and relatable or fantasy.


How do I start game development? What are some good resources? Do you have any best practices or tips for a newcomer?

1. Do you know what to program is?

No- Start learning to program (OOP, data structures, standard algorithms, few languages)

Yes- Good.

2. Do you know c#?

No- Learn c#.

Yes- Good.

3. Do you know the basics of the Unity engine?

No- Learn the basics of the Unity engine.

Yes- Make small games in unity. Try to publish them somewhere for the experience.

4. Do you know game design?

No- Google game design books( I prefer book of lenses by Jesse Schell)

Yes- Excellent.

5. Are you willing to learn 2d art/ 3d modelling?

No- team up with a 2d artist/ 3d modeller

Yes- Learn drawing/ digital art for 2d or download blender for 3d modelling and learn it( I prefer CGcookie's courses on 3d modelling; paid )

After learning these skills, you'll be able to make a decent game.


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