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I’m on the bus right now to go to game design school lol
And I have you tagged with the city we both live in! I think I know the school. I had an interest, but I’m already 9 years into my software engineering career and the pay is too much to give up.
If you’re not in the Seattle Indies discord, send me a DM! Never too early to make connections.
(Also replying from a bus!)
Make sure you tighten up the graphics on level 3!
Now let’s hear from all the game designers getting awesome pay and free cars!
Hideo Kojimi and Mark Cerny are a couple that come to mind but yeah not a whole whole lot of them do.
Edit: damn upon looking them up though I honestly expected both of them to be worth a hubdred or two hundred million but its actually $30 to $50 million which I mean don’t get me wrong no one is upset making money like that but damn I honestly am super surprised it isn’t higher especially the fact that Cerny designed the ps4 and ps5.
Basically any financial expectation you have of any involved field, the game industry will pay half
On other threads programmers were talking and that is basically what they said, they wanted to program the games but they were paid less and when they left they got paid way more.