When did you decide that you wanted to make games?
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I came to the conclusion that I was going to make at the age of 12, or so while I was in middle school. Although, the decision to peruse art I didn't make until late in high school. And then, environment art not until a year or so into college.
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When I was 17 my dad suggested I look into a degree in game art and I didn't really like the idea at the time, but I'm really glad I went forward with it. About a year in I realized it's what I really wanted to do, and after finishing my own comic and doing a con I realized how much I did not actually want to pursue comics as a career. It seemed obvious looking back but I was really clueless as to what i was really interested in doing.
Said this shiznit is dope how do i do it and boom found PC forums, but before that i knew of PC just didn't know how to use it, it used to be a mess of links.
As a kid, I use to draw my own games on paper. The first one was a top down stealth game like Metal Gear Solid and another was this turn based RPG.
I also played a lot of Starcraft and the custom map making helped me unleash my ideas of what games I'd like to make.
that really inspired me. it was a challenge just to get this kind of software up and running TBH
I was fluffing around for a fair while, but at like 15-16 i got my hands on realm crafter and was like "shieeet son, i need art work" so i made shit myself.
Was working in game sound at the time as freelance, after a while I just switched, fucking hated anything audio related, sold my studio bought some software and shiz and started doing art. I've given up on the MMO idea for now, unless i can come across like a gazillion dollars, or some how learn enough programming so i can push out a prototype, damn Heroengine cost me 5k and its just collecting dust.
Side note, i checked my Heroengine account for the first time in ages yesterday because they sold the licence and everyone got it for free, so i was hella pissed i droped 5k on it.
Turns out, they have a new subscription revenue system and i have a lifetime subscription, so i'm hella excited
After getting into the Duke Nukem 3d and Warcraft 2 Editor -
i decided to make my path into this industry.
I just wanted to make some form of art. Games just allow me to do it for a living.
Also I guess the fact that I played a ton of construction games like SimCity, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc.. got me even more into the whole creating stuff.
So yeah.. been wanting to make games since I was a kid and now I'm working on that, so hey!
One of these days I'm going to try to dump Willy The Astro Fox in all its ten-colour-pen glory into Unity.
If a game I liked had an editor I would always try to make maps for them. I spent a lot of time making maps for Warcraft 2 and Starcraft.
Similar to myself,
I started playing around with RPG-Maker XP when I was 15-16 and spent so much time using it (and I mean like 15 hour + days at weekends) my mum restricted my PC use
I was also pretty late to it, as a kid I always enjoyed games and used to think it would be cool to make games but didn't really pursue it. I remember trying Blender about 10 years ago age 17 and getting nowhere. I'm kicking myself now that I didn't stick with it a little longer. Glad to be here now though.
haha, I know that feeling, I think I only really started getting serious about doing 3D when a 3D artist I know, knew how id been tinkering about in 3d apps after being on the modding and indie scene mostly doing textures and a odd bit of code told me to "leave 3D to the 3D artists", after that the decision had already been made what I was going to move onto with some serious work ethic.
Kinda wish I'd saved some of those old games that I made with it. There were loads of them. All probably terrible.
Still haven't broken into the industry but I like to code games when I have free time available. I'm currently focusing on software development outside of the games industry since it is a much more stable field but in an ideal universe, I'd be developing games for a living.