Ok. I took C++ when I was in High School, and finished it with doing some MFC. I decided to try and make video games using OpenGL a few days ago. If I can get really good at it, I think that I might want to do it for a career. So. My question is, who makes video games? I read one of the posts online and it says that some people do it online. But my idea of making video games was a company hiring people to make video games, and you are assigned a porject and you work in a cubical. So who makes games? How do you get a job doing it? Basically, if you could explain how to make it a career, that would be AWESOME. Thank you for your time, and please help.

http://www.sloperama.com/advice.html has tons of info about the buisness of game development. tsloper might come by and point you to afew articles that are most relevent to your question.

Most AAA games are made by a company with people sitting in cubicals, but there are many, many budget and/or shareware games (and probably afew high quality games) made by people sitting at their home computers.

Game development studios make games. Get yourself a solid college education (ideally in any logical or mathematically-oriented degree), build up a good portfolio of impressive demo pieces, a good resume, and start applying for jobs. It's just like applying for any other job.

GDNet, as well a Gamasutra, perhaps IDGA, and SIGGRAPH (among others) all provide lists of game development jobs or companies you can consult when looking for one.

Be aware that unless you happen to live in one of the major hotbeds for game development you'll eventually have to move. "Telecommuting" doesn't quite work in this industry.

Oh, and for the record, in general the number of reasonable responses you recieve for a question is inversely proportional to the number of punctuation tokens following the question and the relative percentage of uppercase characters. So in the future please refrain from posting topics with all-cap titles and fifteen question marks. :P