Need some help on a game design career path (please need advice)

[Akulakha]

Hello everyone I hope you guys are having an awesome day. So I was wanting to ask everyone here for some advice on gaming careers. I have been playing video games pretty much since I was 6 years old from the super nintendo all the way to our current generation of games. I have been dwelling on the thought of other career paths such as cybersecurity, designing better computer parts and perhaps business but I think I really want to give game development a try as I've been playing games for most of my life and because, to me, it feels great to get away from our reality for a time and explore different worlds, building up your character, and watching the imaginative world change and morph around you depending on what your character has done. Since I have been a Nexus member for years now, I figured who better to ask than the nexus community on where to get started?

 

I have asked several people before and some have suggested that it might be better for me to get started on an associate's or even a bachelor's degree in computer science as that field has a lot more career paths then if I were to go for a straight gaming class as that class is not guaranteed to get you a career you can survive on and should only be taken if you are truly passionate about gaming.

 

I really would like to get a great deal more involved with the beyond skyrim project as I greatly admire the work they are doing, maybe start practicing 3d art and animations, and perhaps even making the next 'open-world fantasy rpg' like skyrim is but more next gen and dark fantasy-ish. To get started in gaming development where would everyone suggest one to get started?

[DoctorKaizeld]

 

I have asked several people before and some have suggested that it might be better for me to get started on an associate's or even a bachelor's degree in computer science as that field has a lot more career paths then if I were to go for a straight gaming class as that class is not guaranteed to get you a career you can survive on and should only be taken if you are truly passionate about gaming.

take your friends advice. those extra options will help you get a job and pay off your debts as well as fund your own game development.

 

If you want to make a game RPG game maker on Steam is fantastic for your typical top-down or side scroller but Unreal is also available and is free to use to make a game with tons of support provided. Though Unreal also has a license you have to use (they get a chunk of the profit from your game after the first thousand sales if I recall). you can also look into other engines as well to work from, I think Unity is easy to acquire.