Ask HN: Why people continue working in video game industry?

Re:Ask HN: Why people continue working in video game industry? by jmnicolas on Sunday December 14, 2014 @04:06AM (#8747810)

I think it's a common mistake for young people to aspire to be a game dev just to make games.

The journey (programming) is the most important not the destination (the game).

If you don't like coding you won't be happy making games (and there's a good chance you won't make games at all).

If you like coding you don't need a job in the game industry. Apart from the work environment, for a real programmer coding challenges in others industries are as fun as in the game industry.

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Re:Ask HN: Why people continue working in video game industry? by fluffheadsr on Sunday December 14, 2014 @07:34AM (#8748148)

this 1000x's.. like everyone else here i taught myself to program when I was a child in QBasic and Pascal so I could make games. I've never made a single game beyond tic-tac-toe when I was a kid. I still love programming though!

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