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Skrovitch1 day ago

Okay, let's break it down: I don't know if I can consider it a course as "self-learning," but it doesn't give me any diploma, certificate, or anything like that. I study at a "school" called Orango, but again, it's nothing like a bachelor's degree, for example. My country doesn't have many incentives in the game development field, and it also doesn't have much tradition in the area, although it already has some world-renowned indie developers. Because of this, the only university that actually offers this area of study is more than 700km away from me, and I can't attend right now, I intend to, but I can't now.

And I understood what you meant. My fear is always the beginning, how it starts, and even though I haven't actually started a degree in the field yet, I wanted to try to take my first steps, try to build a portfolio, etc., etc. And the fear of what the beginning is like led to the suggestion for the post. Thank you for your comment, it was very enlightening.

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redonihunter1 day ago

If that field is "new", any local game studio will probably be more willing to hire people with no formal degree.

From what I've read, that Orango is more like a beginner's introduction course. Like maybe one week or three worth of study of a topic. And it's aimed more at giving people opportunity to try out if they would like a thing or not. (But maybe I've read about the wrong thing.)

This should give you enough knowledge to have structure in creating your own games on Itch and for jams that should be more than enough to have fun in creating a game from beginning to end.

But you seem to ask and aim for game designer. That's a specialist occupation in big teams.

If you wonder how those specialists started, I suggest you pick a few games, favorably created in your country, and look at the credits at places like  https://www.mobygames.com/  Do they have a game designer that only did game design? And how does their previous credit history look like. If they are famous, maybe they have a public listing of their previous work or education.

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