Want to be a game programmer/developer - but no background in computing.

Amirul Menjeni · 2013-08-02T16:19:44

What I always wanted to be is to do what I like to do best. After finished my O-level course and the CIE examination, I had a whole 3-4 months holiday. I got nothing to do except for waiting for my O-level result (2012), and playing computer games all day. One day I found out this game called 'To The Moon', developed by Freebird. The game was awesome, yet simple (kind of), as if its not made by a huge company, but rather some small group of people. I began to google this game. I wanted to find out who is the director of this game, how it was made, is it famous ( and I'm not surprised it got a lot of endorsement ), etc. But what I was really interested is, how did they make this game? After a bit of googling, I found out that they used this program called 'RPG maker' to make their game. Interested as I was, I visited 'RPG maker' website and surf through their sites. I thought, "So this is how most people make games. ". I didn't know anything about programming back then, let alone knowing that 'computer programming language' exists, and nor do I have any interest in anything computer-related. Another few surf, I stumbled upon the word "Now with codes... (some programming language)" or something like that. So again, I search about programming language. In turns out that the very basic thing in game-developing is coding the game. So, given that I have 3-4 long months of holidays, I decided to give it a try, and start learning C++ from various tutorial sites and youtube videos , and forums. I spent day and night everyday, reading and watching tutorials online, and making some random useless programs to practice what I've learned. If I had an error that I couldn't solve, I sometimes couldn't sleep at night until I finally find a solution. Its really decided that this is what I really like to do best. If I can choose any career, I'd want to be a game programmer. However, there are some problem that 'push' me away from nearing that career: Firstly, in my country, there's no game industry at all. Most programmers in my country work for non-game industry, like working for an oil and gas industry. So, I can say that the number of demand of game programmer in my country is likely to be 0. Secondly, I don't have any background on programming, ICT, or computer studies under my school courses. I only found out about programming, and start learning last year's December (2012). Thirdly, I afraid I don't have time to spend on game programming. Now that I'm a student taking A-level course for Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, I have too much work to do in my hand, and these three subjects aren't easy to score. To add one more 'subject' (i.e programming) in my free time will probably drop my academic performance. Sorry if my English is bad. That's all what I wanted to share. What your say in this?

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Started by Meerul264 July 28, 2013 08:15 AM

10 comments, last by RivieraKid 11 years, 1 month ago

Meerul264

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July 30, 2013 06:06 AM

I assume your in the British school system but not in Britain. Will you be trying to go to university?

Yes I do. I wonder now, if its okay to take computer science in university level, without any background in computing (though I do have some experience in programming)?

As for right now, I'm on A level course. After A level, university.

RivieraKid

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August 02, 2013 04:19 PM

I assume your in the British school system but not in Britain. Will you be trying to go to university?

Yes I do. I wonder now, if its okay to take computer science in university level, without any background in computing (though I do have some experience in programming)?

As for right now, I'm on A level course. After A level, university.

Unless things have changed, for most universities it doesn't matter what your A-Level's are when taking computer science. Maths and physics are probably more important anyway.

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