- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Shishka
Posted by: Paranoid_Gnome
Posted by: Shishka
That depends entirely on what you want to do.
Something with Computer Graphics, Desnging the Game, But Game Tester Sounds good, sit on your butt all day planing bits and pieces of a game 99% of the world would kill for.
Edit* no drawing i suck at Drawing, Art what not
There's no way that you'd get a job at Bungie doing any kind of art if you did not have a grip on the basics. In other words, yes, you have to be able to draw to model. You have to be able to draw to animate. You have to be able to draw to texture. You have to be able to draw to design UI. You have to be able to draw to design environments.
As for playtesting, it's not as fun as you might think. First, it spoils the game for you, because you're still playing, but you don't get the full glory of the finished game. Second, you're not playing to have fun. You're spending hours, days in a single level, searching for bugs, "Carney holes," glitches, gameflow issues, texture errors, z-fighting, animation glitches, and more. Further, part of your time isn't spent simply playing the game. You're also writing up all your findings.
If you think playtesting is simply "playing," think again.
So to claify to work at bungie you defently need to be able to draw?
And i am aware of the downside of Playtesting, yet it still seams like a good job for me.