I'm 23 years old, currently unemployed, and with all the free time i have i started learning about programming. In the past 7 months i tried couple of different languages and areas mostly related to them, and even though i can't call myself a programmer yet i think i got a good starting position.The question is should i focus on web design and development instead of game development? I read that its much easier and faster to get a job in web development, and due to financial instability it sounds like a good choice, even though im much more intrested in game development.
things i practiced: Python with Pygame, Java and libgdx, HTML&CSS, Js(Jquery) and a bit of Ajax.
Sorry for dragging this text , and my english languge skills. It's not my native language.
Web or game development?
- Posted:
- 3+ months ago by Shyach
- Topics:
- work, learning, web, programming
Added 3+ months ago:
Just saw that i posted this as a direct answer instead of discusion, my bad sorry for that.
Answers (5)
The real interesting part about web design is learning everything you can sense you already have the basis for the next step I think you would be better to try taking college classes in web design and development. It could get you living expenses then I would say go to Microsoft's game panel so you can get the education on programmer from this web panel Microsoft has a good format and platform.
In short, you should choose whatever you more passionate about. If you don’t have a passion for one nor the other then you should choose web development. Game development generally is more channeling. Although both of them are high-paid jobs, web development pays a bit more and easier to get into.
The game development industry is more channeling than web development.
Web development. The skills are more portable, the employment more steady and there is more opportunity for growth as a career. Game development, while technically incredibly challenging, suffers from a "death march" work ethic that trades on the psychology of working on cool stuff to extort your labor from you at cut-rate prices and then toss you aside when things don't work out.
At least web developers who develop solid technical talent can weather that and can work a week that usually doesn't demand free labor as a condition of working on the "cool project". You'll also be making a better wage per hour than a game developer.
If you want a paycheck and hours of stability and a life outside of work, go web. If you want to be on bleeding edge, ultracool technology but burnout within five years and work for near-slave wages as information technology goes but want the prestige of saying you're a game developer, go game development.
I recommend tinkering with game development as a hobby and do web as a profession. I find that much more relaxing as I like things like sleep, a marriage, regular hours, a career path that lasts longer than the next title, and so on.