So Sup Forums, did you ever land that dream job in the gaming industry?

So Sup Forums, did you ever land that dream job in the gaming industry?

I can't figure out a good scam scheme to post on Kickstarter, so nope.

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At one point I realized that O'm not creative enough to be a designer, but did get a job in localization. Which is fine by me.

>dream job
>in gaming industry

Best way to do it is work for either a small company or go independent, the odds of you making big bucks are fucking slim but at least you can make a fun video game and enjoy making it.

AAA will kill you.

The gaming industry is as far away from a dream job as you can possibly imagine.

>small "happiness"
>big "Dream Job"
What did it mean by this?

I'm going to try in a week or so

this.

How much is an acceptable amount to make per year? 50,000?

I'm really having a hard time even getting any jobs close to that.... I'm going to be a poorfag all my life

I've worked for two successful small studios in 3d artist capacity so far. Less than 50 people in the first one, maybe 10 in the current one. They make fairly niche games, so they attract a very particular type of playerbase.

Let me tell you what. While the fact that the studio is small means that you directly talk to the boss and can influence decisions to a certain degree, it also means that the available resources are limited. It's likely that the boss will not want to hire necessary people to do specific tasks, instead opting to buy premade assets or pushing the work on someone who is not an expert in that. Negotiating for them to buy software you need for the job is also not fun.

There is also the fact that you are working for a fixed salary, while your boss might be making millions. Which makes them not hiring people or not buying stuff you need even more frustrating.

And at the end of the day, a job is a job. You will be required to do stuff that you might consider absolutely retarded. There will be deadlines, unnecessary meddling, stupid management decisions.
The reason I don't work at my first job anymore is that the boss hired a manager who didn't understand a first thing about game development, but told everyone how to do their jobs anyway. On top of that, he reinforced any stupid idea the boss had, making it look like everyone opposes him. End result - most people who were working at this company for quite a while were either fired, or quit themselves.
My only consolation is the fact that it looks like that company is not doing great anymore.

Define "gaming industry"

I 've done some contract work for a few different studios you've 100% seen some of my work attached to an early-year AAA flop, but it's on the graphic design/promotional side of things so I'm not sure whether that counts.

Overall I'm happy with where I am, I get to do my own thing at a local agency and occasionally accept jobs for games/media that seems interesting or that I know I can use in my portfolio to further my standing in certain circles

No, but I am now in training to become a qualified park ranger :).

I never wanted to work in the gaming industry. Shit seems fucking awful.
I'll stick to enterprise software where it's nice and comfy.

a cop?

Depends on your role in the company (asuming it's AA or AAA)

Use Glassdoor to find out average income for each role

Which job offers are you looking at, though?

Nah like in charge of maintenance and safety of a nature reserve/park as well as dealing with animals

Sadly no. I failed at life and I ended up working in a call center even though I've got my degree.

>has a degree
>job in call center

bruh. there are high school drop outs making more money than you

>wanting a job in the video game industry
Just study science and get a good secure job instead op

That's why I said I failed. Ah well, I will off myself soon anyway.

Work as a web dev instead some shitty """GAME DEV""

You can make garbage shit apps and dump them onto 12 year old kid's iphones and make a million dollaridoos with the next flappy bird

>Call center
Did this for a few years. Shit was awful. Customers can curse you up and down, but you can't retaliate or that's an automatic termination. One of my co-workers had this happen to her and she attempted to get her manager. He literally said "Shut up and deal".

>Loved videogames all my life
>Too terrified by the stories of game dev to risk working 40+ hours a week on some shitty cash grab for one of the industries big players
>Need to make a living and not deluded enough to think I'll be one of the very few success stories so indie dev is off the table

Guess it's cybersecurity for me...

hahahahaha this nigga thinking working w zero job security, small pay, no extra pay for overtime, shitty work environments, shittier managers and deadlines tighter than a nuns asshole is a dream job hahahaha get the fuck out of here

I do academic research on video game companies among other organizations.

Depends on your country.
In France, you will already have a great life with as little as 36,000€ per year.

Worked my dream job for half a decade in the gaming industry.

Also made it big as an indie developer.

Can confirm every aspect of this industry is complete and utter shit and will only get worse in the next half a decade.

I genuinely regret having wasted so much of my youth pursuing it.

Trying indie now, ran a lot of small projects since I was 10. Issue is my actual job/temporary keeps clawing at my hours.

Which games did you work on?

Full Spectrum Warrior
Battlefront 1/2
Destroy All Humans
The Saboteur
A MP Mercenaries game similar to Battlefront that got shitcanned.

Which role/s?

>Work for video game company
>Get worked like a dog with shit pay

>Stream video games
>Get free shit and free money

The idea of a 'dream job' is a capitalist lie invented to get you to endlessly chase that carrot.

Beyond a few incredibly rare instances everyone who 'chases their dream job' either ends up broke or another wage slave like everyone else.

Primarily character modelling, rigging and animation, cutscene storyboarding/layout/animation, mocap capture, but helped out a bunch with environmental art, world building, other misc shit

Fuckers are still using most of the animation pipeline tools we developed at Dice today.

no, I went into finance for the big bucks instead.

And in a commie state, we'd be working those wage slave jobs anyway with even less of an incentive.

>The only alternative to extreme capitalism is literally communist gulags..

>shit pay
>unpaid overtime
>deadlines
>clueless managers who make way more money than you
>dream job

Not even the right attitude

My point is, the economic system doesn't really matter here. At the end of the day, the same jobs will still remain. You'll just be doing them for different incentives.