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from C# programming to game design

tenaciousBob · 2015-11-12T21:07:18

I recently graduated from an engineering school and I was working for 6 months as a software engineer. I worked mostly with C# and MS SQL SERVER and I have built a website in ASP.NET that is backed up by a good SQL Server database. The thing is that the more I discover myself the more I realize that I picked up the wrong path. I always wanted to design games. The features the skills, the spells, how it will be fun, how the characters will move, the concept etc. But from the point of how the game will be and not as a designer who will build the models or the animations. And I have a lot of ideas for games that I have written down as a concept. (Some of them are 50 pages long) And although I am a good programmer( one of the best of my school) I describe myself as an artistic / creative person and not as a methodic person with analytical skills. From what I know so far, this that I described is called game design and is coming from a school of arts and design. Not from an engineering / programming university. So my question is how possible is to reroll from software engineer to game designer and follow the path: level editor -> level design -> Game designer. Will I need a master degree that focus more in the artistic part of game design (as I already have the programming part)? Maybe I could just continue my path as an AI developer( But with the final aim to evolve to a game designer and not lead programmer)? Or would be possible for me to just make a game for my portfolio and apply for jobs at Game Design? Please note that for now I am staying at London and I would like to know about the UK market. thank you very much!