Hi, I just want to ask some serious question. But before that , I just want to let you know about my background.
I am 25 and a factory worker. Ive been programming for quite a while now but because of tough competition I wasnt able to get a programming jobs. What gets me into programming was that when I was young, I use to play on nintendo and wondered how do people do that. So I decided Im gonna get a CS degree. But I hadnt been able to program till I get my first laptop which was when I was on my 3rd year of college. I was at that time around18. I came from a poor background in a poor country so affording computer is really hard. Anyway after graduating I work as a freelancer but that only last for a year because also due to luck I was able to go to foreign country and work as a factory worker. I have no choice because I needed money. After that I started learning game development. I started learning and reading c++ books and study openGL. I havent had much practical experience in c++ but I can say that I am able to read c++ code and understand it. My progress is pretty slow as well on learning Game development because my job is kind of hard labor so I pretty much run out of stamina by the time I got back at home. SO my question is
1. Is there someone in here or someone got into game dev jobs that started in a rough background? If there is one, I would like to know what did you do and what were you doing back then :D I just want to have a motivation to continue.
2nd. As a person wanting to get into game industry, Is it right to aim for bigger game dev industry? like EA or SE? Will continuing c++ be a good asset for me? or Just use c# which a lot of inie game dev use?
3rd. What are the chances that at my mid 20s I can be able to get into game industry? How high would you think that be?
As you can see Im pretty confuse right now as I really really think that I am late and that I should switch my interest to other field. I dont Know..
Hope someone can answer me.. Thanks :D