Comments on: Work Is Good: Don’t Give Up

By: Ed Mokurai Cherlin (@Mokurai)

Ed Mokurai Cherlin (@Mokurai) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:37:43 +0000

My son and daughter went into the video game industry, and got to work on some great games like Neverwinter Nights and some that were truly terrible. There were other excellent aspects of the work, and others that were execrable. Don’t think of doing this or any other job that is this hard unless you can enjoy the grunt work. It’s as hard as possible, though of course no harder, to try to measure up to your own vision. Unlike the typical 9 to 5 job.

By: auroradragonkaya

auroradragonkaya — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:51:06 +0000

I see similar things a lot just at school. So many people think art classes mean that everything’s going to be super easy, because art is always easy. Or, worse, that going to a school for making video games means you get to play video games ALL DAY. Lots of people drop out when they realize you actually have to WORK. No time to play games and watch movies, you gotta get those 100 gestures done by the end of the week!
(Though, to be fair, in game design 1, we made, altered, and played a lot of tabletop games, on the fly, with lectures during and between. It was tons of fun as well as super informative. Awesome class. )

By: arlnee

arlnee — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:56:57 +0000

just keep swimming, just keep swimming…

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