Games Development

Hello everybody and welcome to my journey through my Games Development course. For the first post, I'm going to talk about where I see myself in the next 5 - 10 years. 

When I was the mere age of 6, I was given a Game Boy Advance by my mom, my first ever gaming platform I had in my life. I immediately fell in love with my first gaming experience and from there, I have never stopped playing games. As I grew older, the more I understood about games and what they were and the more games I played of course. And with that being said, it inspired me to become a game developer. My parents told me: "Turn your passion into your career. Don't wake up one day feeling like hell because you don't want to go to work. Wake up feeling happy to go to work". That was one of the best advice given to me, and I do believe in what they say. With the course that I'm taking at SAE, I am finally one step closer to my dream, working for DICE (Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment) or Ubisoft. In the next 5 - 10 years, I hope that I will be in Ubisoft so that I can get the necessary experience to work with DICE.

Why DICE you might ask? Well, from the games they make (Star Wars: Battlefront and the Battlefield series), I really loved the amount of realism they included in the Battlefield series. The destructive environments, the big maps and the level of details they included in the game, such as bullet drop. The games they made, made me glued to my chair, however, there were some things that they missed that annoyed me a bit. With that being said, I would like to work with these companies and hope to tweak these minor bugs and errors or missing features. 

DICE (Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment) [Digital image]. (n.d.). Retrieved February 2, 2017, from http://mirrorsedge.wikia.com/wiki/File:DICE_logo.png

Why Ubisoft? Although they don't know how to make servers or keep one up, they do make great games, such as the Splinter Cell series, Watch Dogs series, The Crew and the latest game that is coming up in Valentine's Day, For Honor. The level of detail they pay attention to is absolutely superb. If a player were to shoot a light source, the light source would break, giving yourself an advantage over your enemies. The stealth aspect in most of the games they have have been executed perfectly. The AI, level design and mechanics are well made. I believe that Ubisoft is a good start for achieving my future dreams. 

Ubisoft Logo [Digital image]. (n.d.). Retrieved February 2, 2017, from http://thekoalition.com/2016/ubisoft-executives-accused-of-insider-trading