How to become a game designer?
I'm going to do this, the choice fell on the game designer, because I love this business, playing games and analyzing them. I wish I could be like Todd Howard or Ken Levin when your idea is brought to life by our own development team. What do you need to know for this? And what universities are there for the game industries?The author does not even have a business plan. What studio can we talk about. There is not even a rough idea of ​​the costs. What a nafig lyam. It is elementary to rent a room, provide each employee with a workplace, buy licensed software. The author can only put half a lem in 1 computer, if not more, moreover, it is possible only on software. And the studio is also a bunch of employees besides programmers. These are managers, accountants, advertisers and PR specialists.
Even if you take the minimum, you should have at least 1 accountant who will keep records and calculate salaries. And how much do you think you will have to pay without profit until you release something that will somehow recoup the costs. Lyamov 10-15 in the minimum must be calculated.
And now your opinion is interesting: how did others find everything they need?
RussianQuaker
And now your opinion is interesting: how did others find everything they need?
I did not set myself the goal of calculating a project and a business plan for this type of activity. I do not need it. And even more so, I'm not interested in making a long-term business plan in a project that is not interesting to me. I just wrote primitive sketches.
From experience I know that without planning, few projects survive, only by luck. And to open a business, and even more so not at your own expense, is complete nonsense. And no one will give anything without seeing a promising business plan.
I will say one thing. The task is rather adventurous and rather shaky. It is better to find funds for such tasks by transferring funds from your other stable sources of income.
So vocational school))) only vocational school.
Merkats
As for vocational school, of course it's a joke. It's just a business, but in business everything must be calculated. Enthusiasm is great, but it alone will not lead to results.
7Rain7
Only one thing is not clear to me, why is it not possible to open a business with your own money? My father works as a regular buy and sell distributor, while taking out a loan more than once.
Merkats
I did not put it right. It is possible, but not so adventurous so to speak. Not so where the calculations are on the verge of fortune-telling on the coffee grounds. So that it would not be sadly painful later.
tagda avtaru nada more to go to
managementmont learns to start there all sorts of courses such as how to start a business and so
once with money he wants to aperture and he will be like the guy that ordered the stalker.
I would also like to patch up the game, but any schoolchild would probably like it. but even a thousand 500 -800 to invest in the air, in fact, to spend as it is ssykatny.
and all sorts of offices of an accountant of a novice studio are not very much needed anyway, the office will probably not be in a large city where there are people to subscribe to such a strange enterprise.
but this is how I think when a person raises the question broadly enough, he doesn’t know the topic and didn’t really understand it. most likely the cart is there and the remains, here.
Merkats
"What do you need to know for this?"
What do you already know? What can you already do?
RussianQuaker
how did others find everything they need?
1. Fate, coincidence of circumstances.
2. An acquaintance, good / necessary / successful connections.
3. Personal qualities of a person (purposefulness, talent for creativity, etc.)
And something else, perhaps. More-less. Desire alone is not enough, much more is needed, otherwise ALL willing and novice designers would become millionaires and become famous, but this is not so.
A.Soldier of Light
Yes, you are right. But it seems to me that the first and second points are one and the same, good connections create those very favorable circumstances. And probably to have connections is even more expensive than talent, as an example it is enough to take 20 year old managers without proper experience. Money is a one-stop solution.
Merkats
managers are 20 years old, without proper experience
It is better not to hire anyone.
In general, it is better to start such projects and try to implement them with the same enthusiasts as you. For the first time, work without organizing a studio, at least reach the stage of alpha testing of the project, try it on friends and acquaintances. And only then go to investors with something that you can already show and sell. A competent investor, if he sees the prospects and viability of the project, will help both with money and with the organization. But as I said, you will need to draw up a clear business plan, which will take into account both profit prospects and financial risks.
Merkats
Well, we have a deputy in Estonia, he is 23 years old)) And already a deputy. Do you think this is normal? ^ _ ^
If you dig around, it will immediately become clear what's what. The first two points are in action, the third is already superfluous.
The first two are not always the same, but similar. Not always - because fate can turn out in such a way that a person with connections falls into the clutches of gopniks and gets a feather in the side, or in a car accident (and also to the next world). Either he walks at night, and a wheel falls on his head, or an icicle from the roof. This is fate / karma, and connections do not affect this in any way.
A.Soldier of Light
Either walks at night, and a wheel falls on his head, or an icicle from the roof. This is fate / karma, and connections do not affect this in any way.
I don’t quite understand, but how does this relate to success? The fact that at any moment you can die or perish at the hands of some idiot on the road is understandable, we are not supermen. And please do not bring karma and other superstitions. Tell me more that you believe in God, I will stop taking you seriously.
Whatever one may say, but good relations with people is the second main weapon, after money, of course. Climbing the career ladder in companies of thousands of people is possible only if you are on good terms with your boss. But I am not satisfied with working for my uncle, well, if my uncle is not ready to provide me with sufficient financial support, so that later I will work for myself. Something like that.
Okay, let's do this: what is the likelihood of HONEST LABOR to make yourself a fortune?
RussianQuaker
Depends on what state. If we are talking about millions, then honest work can only be earned if you were born in the right countries. I don't think it is an honest way to become a millionaire in Russia. But you can become wealthy if it’s about wealth.
Merkats
You have lost a hyphen and a question mark in the topic title. For some reason, it seems to me that if you make mistakes even in such trifles, then it will be difficult for you in the saber profession.
V-Nine
Okay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_design#Game_designer https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B4%D0% B8% D0% B7% D0% B0% D0% B9% D0% BD% D0% B5% D1% 80 A
game designer or Game Designer, not a game designer. I just remember that a game designer is written in English, so I wrote it separately.
I agree about the question mark, but I wrote in a hurry and I was more worried about the answers than the spelling. The human race never ceases to disappoint me.
Merkats
Game Designer or Game Designer, not game designer.
The continuous spelling is not justified by anything. At the same time, there is a web designer who is officially spelled with a hyphen, and the principle of word formation is the same.
I just remember that a game designer is written in English, so I wrote it separately.
In Russian, this word can be written with a hyphen, or even then together, but not separately.
I wrote in a hurry and I was more worried about the answers than the spelling.
Why is everyone so embarrassed to just say "I like to write casually", not hiding behind imaginary haste?
The human race never ceases to disappoint me.
Me too.
V-Nine
Why is everyone so shy about just saying “I like to write casually†without using imaginary rush?
the main thing is that there are no "looking", "tried", gross typos in the title and commas after each word, or vice versa, their complete absence. the rest can be forgiven. it's the internet. even, it is, it is not so pressing on the eyes.