1. I'm currently in my final year on high school, and will probably study maths after, just because maths have always been something I find to be really interesting. I find programming interesting, as well as physics, although I can't really say I'm proficient with any programming language. At the moment, I am trying to find out if game design would be something I would enjoy doing.

2. I don't feel like attending a game school

3. I don't want to find out after 6 months that I'm not the person to create games.

4. I have never been a real artist, I suck at drawing, photoshop, stuff like that. I've never written good stories or poems, they're just not my thing. I do find psychology interesting though, and I find it very interesting to try and find out why people think the way they do, and what they're perspective is.

5. Would game design be something for me, or should I stick to my fun and small minecraft projects?

6. If I study maths, would it still be a possible option?

7. I'd also like too know some recommendations on what to take as my next step. Should I try make small games in an engine like Unity3D, and see how they work out (to acquire some basic programming, graphic design, level design, stuff like that), or should I try starting from scratch, writing my own engine first?

1. Where did game design come from? Game design is not about math, programming, and physics. Those suggest programming more than design.

2. Why are you saying this? Where did this "game school" question come from? If you don't feel like going to game school, don't. Choose whatever school and major you want.

3. You can't worry about trying paths about which you might change your mind later. That happens to everyone. It's part of life. Go where your passions lead you, and if they change, that's okay.

4. Why are you saying all this?

5. Most people who want to pursue game design are intensely passionate about pursuing it - they don't need to ask strangers if they should pursue it. And you said you're getting tired of the limitations of the Minecraft engine/editor. So my suggestion is "neither. Try something else."

6. Anything is possible. Your question is unclear.

7. What do you WANT to do? That's the most important question.

1. I'm currently in my final year on high school, and will probably study maths after, just because maths have always been something I find to be really interesting. I find programming interesting, as well as physics, although I can't really say I'm proficient with any programming language. At the moment, I am trying to find out if game design would be something I would enjoy doing.

2. I don't feel like attending a game school

3. I don't want to find out after 6 months that I'm not the person to create games.

4. I have never been a real artist, I suck at drawing, photoshop, stuff like that. I've never written good stories or poems, they're just not my thing. I do find psychology interesting though, and I find it very interesting to try and find out why people think the way they do, and what they're perspective is.

5. Would game design be something for me, or should I stick to my fun and small minecraft projects?

6. If I study maths, would it still be a possible option?

7. I'd also like too know some recommendations on what to take as my next step. Should I try make small games in an engine like Unity3D, and see how they work out (to acquire some basic programming, graphic design, level design, stuff like that), or should I try starting from scratch, writing my own engine first?

1. Where did game design come from? Game design is not about math, programming, and physics. Those suggest programming more than design.

2. Why are you saying this? Where did this "game school" question come from? If you don't feel like going to game school, don't. Choose whatever school and major you want.

3. You can't worry about trying paths about which you might change your mind later. That happens to everyone. It's part of life. Go where your passions lead you, and if they change, that's okay.

4. Why are you saying all this?

5. Most people who want to pursue game design are intensely passionate about pursuing it - they don't need to ask strangers if they should pursue it. And you said you're getting tired of the limitations of the Minecraft engine/editor. So my suggestion is "neither. Try something else."

6. Anything is possible. Your question is unclear.

7. What do you WANT to do? That's the most important question.

1)The idea of designing levels, balancing mechanics, stuff like that, seems more appealing to me then actually buildling, say, the engine/physics/controls/logic of a game.

2) Since, whenever I talked about this to someone, the first thing they said was "attend a game school", and I just don't want to do that.

3)Ok, thanks for the advice!

4) because I'm wondering if that should tell me I'm more of a programmer then designer guy or not.

5) So the fact that this hasn't been my life passion since forever (probably because I've always had the idea that game design is a few nerds writing code forever, very boring), makes me not the guy to make games? Be honest please, I don't care if that's true!

6) Possibe = useful. I guess so then.

7) I have no idea ;-), that's why I came here in the first place.

I'll try out Unity3D then. Seems like I need to learn C# first though, so starting with that? My minecraft experience has always been about level design, but I'd love to try building a game from the mechanics itself.

Thanks for the advice!