Life Advise :P

[Bunster]

So im lookin at becoming a Game Designer and i wanted to know if anyone knows what qualifications leading companies want becuase i havelooked at like ICS Learning but im not sure if the qualification they give me will be recognised or if any lead compaines want it, so anyone know the names of qualiications thye like, thank you.

[Devotii]

An animator should:

* be creative and artistic
* have drawing skills (and sculpting skills for stop frame animation using clay)
* have excellent IT skills
* be patient and able to concentrate for long periods
* be interested in art and design.

Is all I can find.

[BaboonX]

Another good quality you should have is make posts people can read because that text just makes me want to stab my eyes out with a fork or what ever I can grab ...

[#ClumsyWizard]

I've been looking at the same career since I was 12.

I found out that most companies hire employees based on what they can do, and don't really care about anything else except High School Diploma. As well as most colleges look at portofilos of potential students to accept them and allow them to fully enroll.

A recommendation is start a portofilo of "clean" programs, animations, and other misc stuff. What I say by "clean" meaning if you designed a hack program for a game you can't use it for any means in a portofilo. If you designed a game that works 90%, but it has a few bugs. Use it.

I'm still gathering up my portofilo which I've been working on since I was 13. I'm 17 now and its grown a bit, but I don't feel its enough.

If you have a degree in Video Game Design but no hard on the job experience your portofilo will assist you there. Also the requirements are more so recommendations of what they would prefer to have the person fill the position. Basically don't have to meet them on the spot, but have the potential to meet the recommendations.

[Bunster]

thx for feed back, atm im in my last year of college and im doing a Double ICT A Level, but i bin speaking to some people and they bin saying maybe i should go back to college after this and do a Game Design course and go uni after, but i dont really wanna do that but if i have to i will, shame there no places that do a aprentorship for this kinda thing :P

[obox]

take a look at digi pen or something like this

[Deadly Tomato]

Your terrible at Game Design, seeing you said " Making it look pretty" with the worst colours possible.

[Bunster]

Your terrible at Game Design, seeing you said " Making it look pretty" with the worst colours possible.

Sorry, was that ment to make sense?

[zelghadis]

if u want to enter this business dont give a damn to any "game design" college studies etc - it means nothing to all big players on market - You only need to have some higscool graduation diploma and good portfolio - join free game design project groups (there's a lot of them on the web) - start from sth small, like making casuals, flash games etc (for companies one project thatr you completed is more important than tens of bigger projects u participated in but none was ever finished - so basically completed casual is more important than participation in creation big game which was unfinished). You can also think about modding - some companies even requires in CV mods to their games towards employment (some Ubi dev teams and BW for example).

[!iMacroMage!]

You're terrible at Game Design because you said "_Making it look pretty" with the worst colours possible.

I have corrected your post. Obviously you're not perfect, either. I highly suggest you offer more constructive feedback next time.

[TheBluePanda]

I have corrected your post. Obviously you're not perfect, either. I highly suggest you offer more constructive feedback next time.

Leave Deadly Tomate alone, LEAVE HIM ALONE!

[~OddBall~]

Leave Deadly Tomate alone, LEAVE HIM ALONE!

He deserved it.

[!iMacroMage!]

Leave Deadly Tomate alone, LEAVE HIM ALONE!

Understand that I personally have nothing against Deadly Tomato.

He deserved it.

Yes, he did.