Finally in College... Majoring in Game Design!

mikelowemikelowe Member Posts: 177
edited September 2012 in Miscellaneous
Hi everyone!

This is my first week of college at UCSC! Going to major in Computer Science Game Design. The iPhone SDK and GameSalad have literally changed my life. In 8th grade when apple announced the App Store, I started learning Objective-C. It took me a long time to actually understand the language and sophomore year I was starting to release completed games. When I discovered GS, it sped up the development process (although I still love using Objective-C, GS was such a big help because I could complete my projects AND still have time for other things). I love this community and want to thank GameSalad for providing such an amazing tool. Until Junior year I really had NO idea what I wanted to do when I grew up, but now I cannot imagine myself enjoying any career other than game design. Wish me luck here :D

- Michael

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  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    Good luck, Mike! Sounds like you are developing a sturdy background and a solid foundation for your game design career. I sincerely hope you do well.
  • mikelowemikelowe Member Posts: 177
    @SlickZero, Thanks! I hope so :)
  • ultimaultima Member, PRO Posts: 1,207
    good luck, i know that's one of the higher paying career, starting is like 110k? I wonder how that works haha.
  • lycettebroslycettebros Member, PRO Posts: 1,598
    Great! @mikelowe - enjoy it.
  • KiwiLeeKiwiLee Member Posts: 181
    Good luck @mikelowe

    When I was the same age there was one computer course (Everything). Several years later (about a decade) some uni's started to do game stuff. I unfortunately missed the boat (I blame my parents) so make the most of the opportunity.

    Even further back when I was 14 I went to a careers convention and said that I wanted to be a computer programmer. The lady looked down her list and asked "Do you want to do commerce?". I guess that this was next to computer in the list :-)

    Times have changed.

  • LuckyLurcherLuckyLurcher Member Posts: 344
    Excellent! Hope you have a great time.
  • carlblanchetcarlblanchet Member Posts: 755
    I cannot imagine myself enjoying any career other than game design
    I feel the same way :P
    Best of luck with it all man!

  • ktfrightktfright Member Posts: 964
    Great Job, and good luck!
  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    Awesome!
  • jamie_cjamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772
    That's great! Best of luck to you!

    Jamie
  • mikelowemikelowe Member Posts: 177
    Wow! Thanks for the replies everyone. Class starts on Thursday. I've got an introductory Java course :D
  • zzap64zzap64 Member Posts: 405
    Back in my day it was Fortran, Cobol, Pascal and Basic...even with some punched card arithmetic...luckily that turned out really useful in my later life ;)
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    Congrats! I hope you enjoy it!

    I've never had any formal training in making games, would certainly be an interesting thing to try!

    Best of luck! Learn lots! Create lots!

    QS :D

    Edit:
    *Sees Zzap64 and goes away to read some Crash instead.*

    :D
  • LuckyLurcherLuckyLurcher Member Posts: 344
    Back in my day it was Fortran, Cobol, Pascal and Basic...even with some punched card arithmetic...luckily that turned out really useful in my later life ;)
    1∅ PRINT "Cooooool!";
    2∅ GOTO 1∅

    RUN
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