if I had a chance to join a game company, I would like to join Blizzard. I heard that they were giving some gifts (like a real shield, sword etc.) for your works and experiments.
Personally, I do love programming but I do not intend to be coding any game or be working for any company linked to games any soon, still have few years before deciding anything, I'll do with my part-time jobs for now.
What Darkroot have been saying sounds pretty true and realist, life isn't always about having fun 24/7, A Video Game Company(Most of them anyway) just like any other company out there have to make themselves money and they will do what they can to get the job done. Now, if you work in a company for a certain game that you do not like in any point or hate from depth your heart, the team working on the game will suffers from your lack of motivation and if I were to not like working on such project, I would not be able to get much done for it or might even ends up slowing down everything and might lead to getting fired, but me being me, I am quite a workaholic and I always try to get whatever job I'm doing to be done as best as I can, like it or not, I need the money.
Anyway, to sums it up, I don't have any experience in this and minus small past experiments on different things than games, I can say that unless you either really love what you're doing(e.g. coding or just testing) and don't care what it is on you're working or that you just really need the money and don't have any other choices but this job, don't do it.
Oh and just to say, as for me and "big companies" such as EA or Blizzard, I do rather not associated directly with them at all. I have to be working with a small team of people I know and where we really are free to thinks about what we're working on together on the get-go or I can't deal with it, somewhat selfish but that's how I am, making a game all while having fun and knowing when to get serious is probably the best, that even goes for any jobs.
Now, I don't know if I made any sense and I don't feel like reading again so my bad if I just wrote a cluster of non-sense.
Oh and just to say, as for me and "big companies" such as EA or Blizzard, I do rather not associated directly with them at all. I have to be working with a small team of people I know and where we really are free to thinks about what we're working on together on the get-go or I can't deal with it, somewhat selfish but that's how I am, making a game all while having fun and knowing when to get serious is probably the best, that even goes for any jobs.
Yeah big companies have to pump out games for profit and they will force you into slave overtime conditions to do it. Best thing from my perspective is work for a big company for a while and then get enough money to start your own indie company or just join one from the start. Be careful do not to do stuff at work that you want to make for the indie game because they can say that they own it since you produced it on their time and there goes your entire IP.
then what about bill gates he isent a docter in computers
Nor is he a video game company employee, but either way, he started his own company, not tried to apply to another without any sort of degree or past work.
then what about bill gates he isent a docter in computers
As mentioned, he doesn't design video games. He did spend time in Harvard, which of course shows how good one already is to get into such a college, designing algorithms which were genius level, showing him as an exception.
