>So, anon, how's your dream of working in the gaming

Already there, it's so easy to get a job working on some shitty phone games that no one even heard of. I still get paid.

>>388199095
i'm sorry ma'am i don't have the necessary skills nor the attention span to learn them

>>388199095
I have finally set up my IDE to work with OpenGL and SDL in C.

>>388199095
Why isn't Karlie my gf?

>>388199095
Who the fuck are you

>>388199095
>jaggies on teeth
Gross

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>>388199445
pretty good

>>388199181
Friend's ex-girlfriend is a university dropout and she and her new boyfriend both work on no-name phone games out in Cal-ee-for-nye-aye doing concept art. They're both talented artists so it's kinda sad seeing all that talent being spent on a game that wont get played.

>>388199095
Pretty. There's never a shortage of demand for 3d artists

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Is the phone game industry amoney laundering thing? Nobody actually plays mobile games anymore.

>dream of working in the game industry
that's hardly different than being a janitor

shouldn't you be asking about making your own game, or working for some big names

>>388200014
>no tattoos
Interesting. Doesn't every normie have a few tattoos now?

>>388200014
Kids do. Most parents nowadays give their kids phones as a substitute for parenting, and all they do is download new games all day.

>>388199095
enslaved by Nintendo for 4 years...stop
chained to the floor inside a dungeon...stop
16 people in one room who share two shit buckets....stop
we drink our own sweat and nobody dares to share...stop
other guy kept spiders under his table for nutrition until he got beaten to death with a wii fit board by Ivata-san...stop
constant it's a me, Mario dosage from hidden speakers...stop
heard rumors that miyamoto impregnates female prisoners for decades..stop
can sometimes hear children scream in the far distance...
If anyone reads this please kill yourself and forget about us...we are not worthy!

>That one kid who never changed and kept thinking about working on video games when asked about what he wanted to be when he grew up
Yikes.

>>388199095
Nevermind that, these shakes are fucking delicious

>>388199095
Gave up on that ages ago, going to be a standard code monkey

>>388201079
This

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When will they learn?

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>>388199095
I make 4000$ a month making a bunch of shitty iOS apps with my professor.

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>>388199445
Why do people do this?
I've seen lots of students who just keep repeating the same command even if it says there is an error.

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>>388199095
I've been a game designer for a medium sized company for the last 5 years, more or less

Too bad we only make shitty games for normies

>>388199095
Worked as a dev. It was shit so I switched to financial sector software. 3 x the pay for 1/2 the effort.

>>388199408

That's your sister.

>>388199441
technically that's their natural state, meaning they're probably really well maintained

Who the fuck are you?

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>>388199095
I had to scan another supermodel in skin tight spandex, making sure to get every intricate detail of her body. This job is a nightmare.

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>>388203512
worst flaw in capitalism is that it punishes enthusiasm.

people love video games so much they pay a fee of lowered incomes for harder work just to work in the industry. It's like how kindergarten teachers are the lowest-paid job that requires a bachelor's degree despite the fact that it's probably one of the most important jobs for society and the reason its so badly paid is because everyone who works in early childhood education really, really wants to work in ECE.

In the aggregate it mostly works out but no system is perfect, is it?

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>>388199095
>"Hey anon! It's been a long time! Oh my God, I can't believe I ran into you! I thought for sure you'd gone out of state after high school! Me? I'm just visiting the family, I just graduated from medical school, so I only got a bit of time to see everyone before I get back. I already got job offers lined up, but you know what, enough about me, how about you? You were always the smart one of the class, I really wanna know what you've been up to!"
>mfw

>>388202208
She is not that cute in a closeup surprisingly.

>>388199095
*raises open palm* you see this hand its going straight to your face if you keep asking stupid questions.

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>>388202208
Nobody ever learns.

>>388204673
Name of the giraffe?

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>>388204782
Elizabeth Debicki. She's 6'3" barefoot.

>>388204673
Man it must feel great to tower over people

>>388204673
damn

>>388203502

please tell you make fun of them while in the break room

>>388204937
Unfff

>>388204351
>medical school
>job offers lined up
????

and it's the other way around for me and i can act falsely modest and end it with a slight superiority remark. Really like the face and reactions they make.

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>>388204937
>6'3"
>barefoot

I feel insignificant.

>>388206583
of who? The normies?

A Brazilian guy once sent us a "love letter" in broken English thanking us for making such beautiful games and said he was the president of a group of people organizing tournaments of our title.
He then followed the message with a picture of himself, probably taken while sitting on the toilet, giving us thumbs up.

We were dying if laughter while reading it and one of my colleagues set the pictures as his desktop wallpaper with the caption "DO IT FOR HIM"

>>388207396

thats adorable

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>>388201015
>that kid that slowly came to realize how shit life is as he went
>"dinosaur!!!"
>"action man"
>"astronaut!"
>"aerospace engineer"
>"doctor?"
>"uhh.. lawyer"
>"a-artist!"
>"IT's my thing I guess..."

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>>388206998
Just imagine sitting down next to her and having her lean over you, preening you like a bird.

>>388208283
did you wanted to be a dinosaur when you were little, anon?

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>>388199095
at this point i'm not sure.
I mean I'm in the 5th semester of CS and I'm not exactly proficient in any field. I can do some basic things but when I encounter some really tricky problems I just feel discouraged to do anything.

probably just gonna focus on webdev

>>388199095
I'll be graduating next summer and then I'll look for one.

>tfw this really cool grill in my nip class wants to work in game design

>>388208794
you either go to a decent university that then tries to allocate you in a company or start from QA as tester, like pretty much everybody

>>388199981
Would a self-taught 3D artist be able to score a job easily?


Also a question to the other anons, what programming language would you suggest are best to learn for a vidya job?

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>>388199095
Pretty good.

Currently studying Unity, Unreal Enginge 4, C#, C++.
I plan on becoming a level designer or technical designer first, then work myself up towards a gameplay designer, then to a creative or game director role.

I'm composing music for a game atm

You better play it faggots
It's called ....

Working as a designer in a big company atm. I'm doing mobile games, but when you get used to that it's a good life

>>388208283
I wanted to be a power ranger when I was little.

>>388209151
>Would a self-taught 3D artist be able to score a job easily?

Easily? No, but hard work is hardly something to shy away from. To get what you want you should always work hard.
But if you have a good 3D portfolio that's generally what matters.

Do note, becoming a character artist is out of the question unless you're a god or work your way up in the industry.
Focusing on props, enviroment, effects or animation will land you a job much easier.

>>388209151
Unless you want to work to just indie teams
No
Get a degree

Pretty good. I'm just now waiting for a meeting to showcase my medical simulation VR experience. I do other VR stuff for the company to pay the bills so I can work on my passion piece in my spare time. Living the dream, baby.

>>388204020
As shitty as Patreon is it seems to be working for some things like the madman who's done all those SM64 mods recently

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I need to design a new game for my application for game design, but I don't know what kind of game I should make.

Probably gonna use UE4, though.

>>388210524
and the benefit of capitalism: the market fills gaps

>do programming degree
>spend two years trying to make it in the industry
>fail utterly

>transition to law
>"lol anon if you couldn't make it as a programmer with all the demand there you'll never get a job as a lawyer"
>get through law school
>get shitty job but do well enough
>get better job and do well enough
>get good job, now happy

yeah, the games industry thing was a mistake. do what you're good at, not what your hobby is. also do what you have good connections in

if it's not working out bail out

>>388210589
Make a modern Sonic R style racing game.

>>388210713
It just sounds like you just sucked at looking for
job opportunities as a programmer
Don't project your shitty experiences bud

>>388210713
>>spend two years trying to make it in the industry

How? Did you even have any work to show off? Did you create projects based on the companies you applied to? Or did you just apply with your 2 year degree slapped on a piece of paper?

Employers don't really care about degrees.

>>388210589
>I need to design a new game for my application for game design, but I don't know what kind of game I should make.

something impressive and unique

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>"Hey, anon! Is it just me, or has it been a while since we last ran into each other? It can't just be me, right? Well, I don't need to tell you what I've been up to -- just making games and trying to promote however possible, although I was approached with an offer to give a seminar at GDC, so that's something new I've consider. I just hope I can fit it in my schedule, but I'm sure that all tedium to you. How about you, though? How's your game coming along? No, you've gotta share! Big shot like you must have accomplished tons since we last met!"

>>388199095
Me in the milkshake.

>>388211579
I'd just tell her I invented Naughty Dog.

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>>388199445
Isn't this the actual code though

>>388204937
Huh, same as me. I wonder what it feels like to date someone like that

>>388213645
maybe

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It's soon going to be three years since I started working as a 3d artist full time. A couple of years of on and off part-time shit I did during uni before that.

I get very decent money by local standards, but it's kinda sad to know that my bosses make literal millions after Steam cut and taxes. And it's not like we're making particularly popular or good games either. I've only worked for small studios so far (sub 30 people), on fairly niche projects (survival crap with blocks), and studio owners managed to luck out and earn a lot of money. Kinda disheartening to know I'm only getting scraps of what they do.

I just want to save up, and start working on a game of my own at some point. Too bad I'm really bad at programming. I guess I just need to find a programmer who can't into art or ideas, but wants to make games.

>>388216418
what do you do? Just 3d modeling or also rigging and animation?

>>388216418
nigga pretending he worked on minecraft

>>388199095
The "game industry" is a fucking meat grinder. Only doe-eyed noobs dream of getting in there to get fucking worked to death and spit out the other end years later, jaded and bitter.

>>388217526
Well, I said "millions", not "a fat fuck took a billion and sold us out".
But the games I worked on so far only exist because of Minecraft, yea.

>>388217421
My main focus is on modelling, sculpting, texturing of environments and props. I have made characters before, and I know how to rig them and make basic animations, but a dedicated animator would be much better than me at this job.

>>388217874
animators are worth pure gold in this industry, they're often overlooked but truly fundamental

>>388218313
Tell that to my bosses. They can't be arsed to spend more money on someone who knows how to properly animate, instead they would prefer to buy stock animations or make 3d artists think of something.
And people still buy these games.

>>388202505
me on the left

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>>388204937
giv toll gf

>>388199095
I made it, but the job is stressful and I'm going to be taking a month long break to see what other work is out there. The job has its perks, but I can't stand the loneliness of working from home anymore. Just give me an excuse to talk to someone, please.

>>388219748
Oh hey, I work from home on games as well.
You basically have to have friends outside of work. If you don't, then go make them. Start doing sports that require communication. Join some sort of club. Basically, get out of the house and meet people.

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>>388204937
>tfw shes probably a lezzie
its not fair bros

why are all of the best women lesbians