Around 3 weeks ago was the beginning of “Indie Game Jam” that was held by Planet OneTwenty. Despite really wanting to enter I didn’t, in the end I didn’t have enough time due to the fact that I was just entering our remaining 2 week sprint for Bit Game. I will defiantly join a team for the next game jam; one of my dreams is to be able to make my own games, just small ones nothing huge but none the less make indie games with my own stories, mechanics and artwork.
Currently studying my Diploma in Interactive Game Development and recently just been finishing up my tafe work for this semester, I’ve been very busy on bit game and it is coming along very well. At the moment I’m thinking a lot about what I’m going to do after my studies, whether or not to go to university or try and continue into the games industry on some level. The majority of jobs I’ve seen ask for a minimum of 4 years industry experience and I could go to university but I will still need those 4 years after finishing, but on the other hand my Tafe training will give me 1 year worth of exemption from Uni and I’m bound to make many contacts from studying there.
There’s another question in what should I specialize in, the way I see it I’ve got a few options, I could become a designer, concept artist or something I’ve been more recently looking into is becoming a pixel artist (but I’m not sure if this even qualifies as a profession). From what I hear it’s important to be a specialist in the industry and employers are not looking for jacks of all trade.
Need to make my online portfolio so I can be researched by possible employers, so a lot of my spare time is going into looking professional online.
~ Scott
Love the way the blog looks Scott, awesome job!
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking a lot about what I want to specialize in, too. It's difficult to decide. I don't think I'm good enough to work just in animation. I'm very confident with my texturing, so perhaps that's a start. I was thinking Tech Artist but that all hangs upon whether or not we get the training to do rigging next semester.
I decided that if work isn't forthcoming once I've finished at TAFE I'll either go onto further studies in University (even though I hear that a university diploma isn't all that desired in the industry so much as raw workplace experience). Not to mention from attending GO3 last year, everybody I spoke to attending Uni at the time were complaining that the courses were very programming oriented. I think we're on the right track to becoming artists at TAFE.
I do, however, want to at least be making games by the time I finish the course this year. I would like to keep in contact with everybody from the course, and construct a team with all the people interested in making games, and start some projects together.