I'm SCARED!

Your 14 and leaving highschool in a few year''s ?
Why not finish year 12 atleast, that way you have something to fall back on if game developing doesn''t work out.

Also At the current state no one will hire you professionally for several reason''s, you''re under age, you need experience, need something to proove you have experience and you need to have a pasion for the industry and shit loads of other reason''s.

I would suggest making a couple of basic demo game''s and then maybe if your good enough get a team together and see how well that goes.

Also there''s several area''s of Game Development make sure you find which one you suit best.

i heard in digipen all they do is teach you stuff out of a lamothe book? (=fairly easy stuff)

so i woudn''t be too worried if i were you

just get a firm knowledge of C++, and maybe some windows and directx programming, and you''ll be set

Alright well by a few years I meant like when school is over, second I never said anything about being hired now I was talking about in the future ya know? Well anyway I forgot to mention I am in a team (Knightvision) and I have about 3 books on C++ Well whatever...

They''ve gotta do more than teach out of a LaMothe book at Digipen, hehe. I know someone who goes to school out there and he says it''s very, very tough. But hey, if you get into Digipen, you''re practically guaranteed a job in the industry. Hell, a lot of people don''t graduate simply because someone hired them before they had a chance to.

-Ironblayde
 Aeon Software

Oh, and maketty... don''t worry about it man! You''ve got a lot of time left! A lot of people don''t start programming at all until they''re 3-4 years older than you, or more. When you really get into it, you''d be surprised how much you can learn in just a summer...

-Ironblayde
 Aeon Software

Hey really? Thanks Ironblayde your messages made me happy and warm and fuzzy! That is groovy! Well digipen sounds like the school for me! I should really start working on a portfolio too... Well thank ye kindly!

Im afriad that nothing will prepare you for everything that you will come across as you jump into game development. You can learn all the crap that you want to but hey, there will always be things that you will not know. that is ok. preperation is determined mainly on your perception of readiness. It based more on you ability to say " Hey, im good enough to do this" and you go do it. jobs are not given out. you will have to work for them. Although most jobs will ask that you fill certain criteria but other will simply want you to be knowllegable and open to impressionability.
Finish school first. You should really put the game dev on hold untill you get out of grade 12. there is nothing wrong with doing something as a hobby in school. but then again you dont want to fail your important things because they will help you later on.
I recently spoke with one of the people in one of my classes about a similar subject.
one of his statements was as follows;
"why the hell do i need to know english to get into programming? im not going to be writing poetry and crap assed stories."

my reply was less than censored but i think you would get the idea eh.
good luck in your studies and remmember that you will never stop learning and that what you learn in one project may not nessisarily help you in another. keep your mind open to everything

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