Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how they do it. So here's a blog that I can paste a link to.
I don't know
I've got to say first of all that I don't know if I ever got into the game industry. It's my main job but I don't know how a real game studio works. I've never worked in a proper game studio.
So if you want to work on FIFA or GTA, I have no idea how you get there, sorry.
But if you just want to make games and not have to get a real job, I can tell you how I would do it.
Not Programming
I'm going to focus on the idea that you want to be a programmer.
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