- HaIoChick4Ever
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Posted by: DeeJ
Why don't you just give me ONE SECOND!
DigiPen is quite a nice college, however it is massively expensive.
My advice is to, while you're still young, experiment with different things pertaining to games. You still have years before you can get to college and eventually get a job in a gaming industry if that's what you feel you want.
Draw, Model, Animate, create concepts, write, dabble in programming, think of plots or storylines, game ideas (overall design, like, look and play style), and make mods and stuff for other games. Look up mods for games, look at art styles in games, absorb the designs of the game not the game itself. How something works, what is done in place A, how place B works, etc etc. Hell learn web code if you want, and design sites for gaming studios.
Find what you like. What you really like, and that you think you'd be happy doing years down the road. You don't want a job that you -blam!- about going to every day. You want to be happy about your work (oh the irony), so you perform well.
And lastly, don't aim too high. Getting to work at Bungie is a very high goal. I'm not saying it's un-achievable, it's probably just damn hard. And you'll most likely need experience somewhere first. Get a freelance gig going if you want to do art, get references, people who will vouch for you that you're a great artist or whatever it is you do, and that you do and know your stuff in a timely manner and well. Join up with a small arcade game type company in the beginning too maybe, just get your name out there, and some experience under your belt. If you truly focus and want it, then give it your best and I think it could work out.