HELP need info on game design career

Ozzkev55

Ozzkev55

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Hey CAGers, i just wanted some general info on a career in video game design, and maybe an editor for gamespot.

To clarify i would like salary for video game designers, and for the editors at good ole gamespot, also if it is a recomended career, maybe some prerequisites and stuff like that, or if there is something completely better you can do with a masters in computer science, let me know about that as well, there is no urgency but all the help i can get would be great. links are good as well, thanx
 
[quote name='redgopher']Quote from a friend of mine who works in QA at Sony Bend:

"It takes a miracle to get into the game industry."[/QUOTE]

The most depressing post i have ever read period
 
[quote name='Ozzkev55']Hey CAGers, i just wanted some general info on a career in video game design, and maybe an editor for gamespot.

To clarify i would like salary for video game designers, and for the editors at good ole gamespot, also if it is a recomended career, maybe some prerequisites and stuff like that, or if there is something completely better you can do with a masters in computer science, let me know about that as well, there is no urgency but all the help i can get would be great. links are good as well, thanx[/QUOTE]

IGDA does a survey every year that will show you average salaries. Search the web for it.

As for becoming a designer, they are the hardest position to come by and to get in as someone green off the street would take a miracle. A better choice would be to start out in another position like artist or programmer and work your way to designer.
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']Would it help me get into the industry that i'm going to Digipen Institute of Technology?[/QUOTE]

my first application is going there, and yes i have extensively researched Digipen and i have found it to be the best possible choice for an education in the design of videogames, with a masters from there, you would be a superior pick garunteed, though i plan to finish that up with a PhD from carnegie mellon, prior to that, if just to master the science itself, i look forward to attending a school with a fellow CAG
 
I start attending Digipen's Bachelor of Real Time Interactive Simulation and Design in September. Is that the course you're applying to?

I also tried getting into Carnegie Mellon, but i wasn't accepted due to lack of Extra Curricular activities.
 
[quote name='SneakyPenguin']I start attending Digipen's Bachelor of Real Time Interactive Simulation and Design in September. Is that the course you're applying to?

I also tried getting into Carnegie Mellon, but i wasn't accepted due to lack of Extra Curricular activities.[/QUOTE]

i am applying in september in hopes of attending soon after my july 2006 graduation, and yes that is the course i am applying for, with the additional masters at the end if expenditures allow such a move, and CMU is a very hard school to get into but the doctorates program not so much.
 
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