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Should I pursue this career? Help me please!

  • 18-12-2013 9:27pm
    #1
    SeanEdward96
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭


    So I am a 5th year student here in Kilkenny, with a small amount of coding knowledge (HTML5, CSS3, Phython) and worked on level creation in Unity3D while working with bitSmith games for work experience last year. Ever since then I have been inspired to create games, to work in the industry and to make it big and make games people will remember and love, I even plan to start a small indie game in the Summer.
    Anywho, what I would like to know is what is the pay like when you start off for a games company in Ireland, what it's like pay wise after a few years, if it's easier to go abroad and how hard is it? How many hours do they work?
    I plan to study computer games development in ITCarlow as I can get the bachelors and possible masters from it.Any thoughts? Thanks guys :)
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  • #2
    ChRoMe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭ChRoMe


    SeanEdward96 wrote: »
    So I am a 5th year student here in Kilkenny, with a small amount of coding knowledge (HTML5, CSS3, Phython) and worked on level creation in Unity3D while working with bitSmith games for work experience last year. Ever since then I have been inspired to create games, to work in the industry and to make it big and make games people will remember and love, I even plan to start a small indie game in the Summer.
    Anywho, what I would like to know is what is the pay like when you start off for a games company in Ireland, what it's like pay wise after a few years, if it's easier to go abroad and how hard is it? How many hours do they work?
    I plan to study computer games development in ITCarlow as I can get the bachelors and possible masters from it.Any thoughts? Thanks guys :)

    Don't get into the games industry if you want to make good money. If you have the technical skills to make games you can make tons more money in traditional software development.


  • #3
    SeanEdward96
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭SeanEdward96


    Is the money really not that great? I was also thinking of doing computer science :)


  • #4
    BloodBath
    Registered Users Posts: 10,299 ✭✭✭✭BloodBath


    If you can make successful indie games then the money can be great but it's a gamble and something that won't pay while it's in development.

    Getting traditional paid games work in Ireland with a games company would be hard. There's not many positions and there are a lot of people doing games courses at the moment.


  • #5
    ChRoMe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭ChRoMe


    RopeDrink wrote: »

    The more I think about it right now - I'm in the perfect position to be considering Indie game development - And that is while I'm doing a partially paid internship for the next 8 months.

    If the total of your professional experience so far is a partially completed internship, you are far from being in a perfect position.


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