Groucho on 03 November 2008
| SleepWaking said: This is why I question myself if I should go on studying gamedesign. Not only this though also the fact that most game designers have to make games they really don't want to and I might be more interested in concept art (but I feel that is even far more uncertain to get you a job, especially in the Netherlands). |
I hate to break it to ya, but game designers don't generally get hired from outside the industry (they get promoted from Test/QA), unless its a pretty low key development studio. Art and Engineering, yeah, new hires from outside all the time. Designers... not so much. The industry's best designers almost universally started as engineers, actually -- but there are a lot of assistant and up-and-coming folks who started in the test depts.
