What if you are not good in math but love games and want to be in game developme

game development. Any suggestions? Should i even bother? im planning to go to full sail university in florida. as of right now i live in ny and i was wondering is it even worth the time. effort, and most importantly the money? im not that good in math but i love LOVE video games..

Do you have any artistic talent?

Then you're out of luck just like me.

you can get away with it if you have extreme artistic talent and are super creative. math is integral part of game design unfortunately.teh_shogun

yeah are you good in art?

IMO - you can become good at math even if you don't take to it naturally; you just have to work very hard and study more than your peers. if you can turn your weaknesses into strengths, you'll only be that much more marketable!

Character design? Location design? Writer? Voice actor? Etc?

you can get away with it if you have extreme artistic talent and are super creative. math is integral part of game design unfortunately.teh_shogun

ba-dum-CHING!

You can always get better at something. Just try studying math some more.

[QUOTE="teh_shogun"]you can get away with it if you have extreme artistic talent and are super creative. math is integral part of game design unfortunately.Oleg_Huzwog

ba-dum-CHING!

That was a really derivative joke

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[QUOTE="teh_shogun"]you can get away with it if you have extreme artistic talent and are super creative. math is integral part of game design unfortunately.cavsfan2320

ba-dum-CHING!

That was a really derivative joke

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[QUOTE="teh_shogun"]you can get away with it if you have extreme artistic talent and are super creative. math is integral part of game design unfortunately.cavsfan2320

ba-dum-CHING!

That was a really derivative joke

Eh, what can I say? Sine of the times.

IMO - you can become good at math even if you don't take to it naturally; you just have to work very hard and study more than your peers. if you can turn your weaknesses into strengths, you'll only be that much more marketable!

jessica_bie

couldn't agree more, training makes the master, no matter how bad you're aat something if you train/study enough you can get to be the best

I'm thinking of going into Graphics Design/ Character Creation. It doesn't seem like a very open field though.

yo TC I'm kinda in the same boat as you but Geometry is what eats me. Math, and Algebra is a piece of cake, I passed with a very high A. but in Geometry I suck... :( and I also want to be a game designer.

People saying you need math and without it your out of luck are wrong, for programming yes math is required but you dont need to be anywhere near an expert to succeed. Ive finished Uni in a game design/art focused course and i made a couple of games and the only math i did was some balancing and some graphs.

In industry the heavy maths are on the programming side, the design side it isnt needed as much.

I hate to sound ignorant, but how does math relate to game design?GAMESHARQ

I'm terrible at math yet I can be in game industry, I'm studying 3D animation..Ronstera

If you want to do game coding, game engine creation. basically any of the tech side of GD, you're screwed.

If you want to be in asset creation (character models, weapon models, animations, level design/creation) you don't have to be good at math, you have to be an amazing artist though.

Personally, I'd recomend against Full Sail. I went there, information is thrown at you so fast that no one (even the highly gifted) gets everything they could out of every class. which is a shame. because trust me, what you will inevitably miss, will bite you in the *** really hard about 2-6 months later. that, and alot of 3d artwork is a "practice, practice, practice. and then, when you think you're done, practice some more", which a 24/7 schedule like they run, doesn't leave you much time to do (typical schedule for me was, class from 5am-9am, 1pm-5pm, 9pm-1am. then yep, back up for a 5am lab next day).