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Please read the FAQs.
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I don't care where it is, I am willing to relocate.
Please read the FAQs.
I have read FAQs, and the more I read of them, the more apparent it becomes
that you're trying to nudge me away with a heavily spiked pole, from the gamedev industry.
You said that some of your ideas are for board games... have you tried making playable versions of these? This doesn't need to involve any lengthy education or require any expensive items -- you just need a pen/marker, some paper or cardboard, and some scissors -- why not make some of these ideas and try them out so that you can refine your craft?
I have read FAQs, and the more I read of them, the more apparent it becomes
that you're trying to nudge me away with a heavily spiked pole, from the gamedev industry.
You said that some of your ideas are for board games... have you tried making playable versions of these? This doesn't need to involve any lengthy education or require any expensive items -- you just need a pen/marker, some paper or cardboard, and some scissors -- why not make some of these ideas and try them out so that you can refine your craft?
I have tried that, but after having tested 3-4 of them I found myself without people to help me test it.
Just testing them by playing yourself, doesn't really work. It's still just you and your mind.
Nothing I see was a "heavily spiked pole."
You are asking about a position that many people think they want, and behave as if it should be given them with no experience.
But it is a fairly senior job, like a leadership or management role. I don't see anything that says "don't enter the industry" but plenty that say "build the right career for yourself" and "be smart about your choices, don't be stupid".
If you feel like that pushes you out, you might start by asking why that is. For programming rather than design, I similarly get accused of being rough by asking questions like "How is your linear algebra? Statistics? Discrete math? Calculus? Trigonometry? What physics have you studied? ..." It is not to be cruel, it is because these are the necessary prerequisites.
If you feel uncomfortable about topics that are important for a senior-level job, that tells more about you than it does about the topics.
Not everything is black and white, like the text in the FAQs.
I know why it makes me feel it pushes me out, do you?
...unless you can actually answer 'yes' very convinced in your own mind
to yourself, then you don't understand the issue at hand.
Then share it, rather than behave like a child with "I've got a secret an I'm not going to tell you!"Not everything is black and white, like the text in the FAQs.
I know why it makes me feel it pushes me out, do you?
...unless you can actually answer 'yes' very convinced in your own mind
to yourself, then you don't understand the issue at hand.
I am not behaving like a child, though I can see why you mind think that.
One of the problems here is I can't tell you what you should think, I mean I can,
but I doubt you would, even if you had the ability to do it.
People are used to, this is how it works, any other way is bogus,
or to use a famed saying: It's my way, or the highway. (I like to add '...to hell.' )
...on that last thing you mentioned about a big company not bending to be warm and fuzzy,
I don't expect that, not that it ever would be in question.