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Hi I am Eseer and I want to be a game designer.
(Relates to Sony PS1-2-3 by.... umm if you want to design a PS3 game one day?)
I have rougth but not so sure ideas of how to become a game designer while living in the United Kingdom.
1- Create a Computer game at home and take it to a company.
2-
Do a
ICT Foundation Course (1 year)
and then a
ICT Intermediate Courses (1 Year)
to get the grades to do a
BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners Course.(2 Years) (software)
After passing with good grades apply at a University for a
Game Design Course.(3 Years)
After you come out of this course you should be ready to be employed.
Please reply if you agree, disagree or know of a diffrent way.
By Eseer
(Relates to Sony PS1-2-3 by.... umm if you want to design a PS3 game one day?)
I have rougth but not so sure ideas of how to become a game designer while living in the United Kingdom.
1- Create a Computer game at home and take it to a company.
2-
Do a
ICT Foundation Course (1 year)
and then a
ICT Intermediate Courses (1 Year)
to get the grades to do a
BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners Course.(2 Years) (software)
After passing with good grades apply at a University for a
Game Design Course.(3 Years)
After you come out of this course you should be ready to be employed.
Please reply if you agree, disagree or know of a diffrent way.
By Eseer
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FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Free Radical?
> Rockstar North?
We're talking abou publishers though.
Rockstar's GTA product is published by 2K/THQ (I forget which)
and obviously FR's main titles are published by the devil.
> Free Radical?
> Rockstar North?
We're talking abou publishers though.
Rockstar's GTA product is published by 2K/THQ (I forget which)
and obviously FR's main titles are published by the devil.
They're a developer who got into publishing their own games, and now do some publishing I think.
They also distribute games published by other companies in other territories, like Asheron's Call which is published by Microsoft in America, I think.
They also distribute games published by other companies in other territories, like Asheron's Call which is published by Microsoft in America, I think.
Free Radical?
Rockstar North?
Hopefully, as it's really becoming a big problem now, the industry will get a real shake-up in the next few years. As it is, as you say, the big publishers hold all the power and what they say goes - EA buy everyone up, and everyone's creativity gets ass-raped in favour of throwing out sequels every 6 months.
Whatever big conference it was ... can't remember ... but they were going on about this kind of thing. Any other industry - music, film - is much more flexible, and it's much easier for people to come up from the bottom with a big idea and get the credit they deserve. You need something like that for games, or you're just strangling the creativity everyone is yearning for.
Rockstar North?
Hopefully, as it's really becoming a big problem now, the industry will get a real shake-up in the next few years. As it is, as you say, the big publishers hold all the power and what they say goes - EA buy everyone up, and everyone's creativity gets ass-raped in favour of throwing out sequels every 6 months.
Whatever big conference it was ... can't remember ... but they were going on about this kind of thing. Any other industry - music, film - is much more flexible, and it's much easier for people to come up from the bottom with a big idea and get the credit they deserve. You need something like that for games, or you're just strangling the creativity everyone is yearning for.
Bonus wrote:
> Game developers have nothing to do with this, the publisher does all
> of the advertising, packaging, marketting and distribution of games.
> That's why they have more say in what gets made than the developers
> do.
>
> If that's what you want to do as a job, I hope you're ready to move
> abroad. The only publisher left in the UK is Eidos and that's
> falling apart and will be bought over soon enough. Anyone buying
> will be able to figure out quite quickly that it'll be easier and
> cheaper to take Tomb Raider and Hitman out of eidos and close it
> down, meaning there will be no games publishers left in the UK.
>
> Ubisoft are French, EA are american, you might want to consider
> moving to one of them :).
Oh ok thanks. I was going to try at Sony Cambridge, but if that's full, then I'll have to try abroad. Although, I don't think you're allowed to work in the U.S. at a games company. I'm under the impression, due to self experiences, that you have to go over there with your own business. Otherwise I'd try for EA, as Ubisoft are a good company, but I'm not really keen on france.
> Game developers have nothing to do with this, the publisher does all
> of the advertising, packaging, marketting and distribution of games.
> That's why they have more say in what gets made than the developers
> do.
>
> If that's what you want to do as a job, I hope you're ready to move
> abroad. The only publisher left in the UK is Eidos and that's
> falling apart and will be bought over soon enough. Anyone buying
> will be able to figure out quite quickly that it'll be easier and
> cheaper to take Tomb Raider and Hitman out of eidos and close it
> down, meaning there will be no games publishers left in the UK.
>
> Ubisoft are French, EA are american, you might want to consider
> moving to one of them :).
Oh ok thanks. I was going to try at Sony Cambridge, but if that's full, then I'll have to try abroad. Although, I don't think you're allowed to work in the U.S. at a games company. I'm under the impression, due to self experiences, that you have to go over there with your own business. Otherwise I'd try for EA, as Ubisoft are a good company, but I'm not really keen on france.
Thinking about other publishers I thought were mainly UK based...
What about Codemasters?
What about Codemasters?
Well SCi own Eidos now and Eidos are re-interpreting a few licences by giving them to Crystal Dynamics.
Should be interesting.
And, of course, Carmageddon's coming back too.
Should be interesting.
And, of course, Carmageddon's coming back too.
Not really serious clout :).
Just an example of a single game holding them up, in the same way Eidos had Tomb Raider and Hitman, and not much else after they lost Championship Manager.
If publishers wnat serious clout, they need to be like EA. Create a brand and secure the licesnces that average joe wants to have.
Just an example of a single game holding them up, in the same way Eidos had Tomb Raider and Hitman, and not much else after they lost Championship Manager.
If publishers wnat serious clout, they need to be like EA. Create a brand and secure the licesnces that average joe wants to have.
Heresy!
SCi rule. :)
They were saying that their Conflict games sell more than the Rainbow Six games.
That's some serious clout.
SCi rule. :)
They were saying that their Conflict games sell more than the Rainbow Six games.
That's some serious clout.
To be fair, I forgot all about SCi, oops ;).
Bonus wrote:
> I hope you're ready to move
> abroad. The only publisher left in the UK is Eidos and that's
> falling apart and will be bought over soon enough.
I though SCi already bought them?
Also I thought SCi were also very much UK based?
And the of course there's that fund giving out money to help some uk developers publish and finish some of Acclaim's titles that were in development.
> I hope you're ready to move
> abroad. The only publisher left in the UK is Eidos and that's
> falling apart and will be bought over soon enough.
I though SCi already bought them?
Also I thought SCi were also very much UK based?
And the of course there's that fund giving out money to help some uk developers publish and finish some of Acclaim's titles that were in development.
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