GameblurgKids Talking About the Future

Should I draw stuff? Program stuff? Organize stuff? Your goals need to be put into perspective, and David S.J. Hodgson and Bryan Stratton’s book, Paid to Play: An Insider’s Guide to Video Game Careers is a great start to organizing to skills and interests and harnessing them into a profitable career in the videogaming universe.

Many professionals inside of the gaming universe have followed a road well traveled. Initially, fans of the media merely play videogames.

After a large amount of time invested into various videogames, some fans begin to gauge a abnormal interest while thinking about them. They become knowledgeable about what they’re doing, and want to dissect their celebrated hobby at a deeper level: things like learning what makes videogames attractive to begin with, or learning what makes a bad videogame.

At the height of this curiosity, we gain an intense desire to know, at what was once a meddling inquiry to the mind becomes a healthy obsession about a subject that you genuinely care for, and alas, a career is born.

Although there are those who have stumbled into their careers without giving it much thought before college, those who do know that they want to enter the videogame industry as a professional have an interesting dilemma: what should I do?

Should I draw stuff? Program stuff? Organize stuff? Your goals need to be put into perspective, and David S.J. Hodgson and Bryan Stratton’s book, Paid to Play: An Insider’s Guide to Video Game Careers is a great start to organizing your skills and interests and harnessing them into a profitable career in the videogaming universe.

Paid to Play provides a vast overview of what many jobs entail that surround the concept of creating a videogame. Do you have the patience for hours and hours on end for a programming task? Do you really care about the proper color palettes that need to be applied to your character’s 3D models?

If you’re confused or overwhelmed in a world crowded with many interesting jobs, Paid to Play is a great starting point to figuring out where exactly your interest lays, and where your career can begin.