5 Secrets Why Game Development ROCKS

hug oh is that for me is that for me oh you smell this video is brought to you by [Music] Jeb hello hello hello hello how are you today my name is Thomas brush I'm the creator of a game called pinstripe I'm also working on a game called once upon a coma and I love my job I've been making games for about 10 years and I want to convince you I want to tell you five reasons why you should make games why game development should be a job you consider the first reason why you should consider making games as a career is Believe It or Not Making Games is an incredible conversation starter um even today I had Charter come over to give me internet for the new studio and we talked for an hour about my job we talked about game development all the cool things that are involved he asked me if I made fortnite and I said no most people people ask if I've made fortnite they go

hey you make games you must have made fortnite um no I wish I wish I honestly can't tell you guys how many times maybe once a week I get to talk about game development I'm doing it right now but I get to talk about it with strangers and just tell them what I do what my job is and why it's a great job people are usually really interested in it and honestly it's a great way to make friends I know that's bad but it's a great way to make friends all right the second reason why making games is so much fun is it's honestly a really fun ident identity now you got to be careful because if one thing is your entire identity if it falls through then you crumble so you don't want to make game development your entire identity but it's certainly fun to be a piece of who you are um I've had previous jobs like being a shoe salesman a pop what popcorn create not a popcorn Creator a uh I worked at a concession stand at a movie theater I was fired um and then I was also I did um Auditorium cleanup and then I worked as a graphic designer so

I've I've I've had a a plethora is that a word plethora of jobs and each one sort of convinced me that I really wanted to get into game development um it's really all the identities of of working at a certain job don't even compare to being able to be somebody who makes games again it's a really fun conversation starter but it's also a fun person to be to sort of embrace that identity and be someone who makes games it's certainly cool it kind of has a rockstar Vibe maybe in the nerd community and that's really cool all right guys really quick I want to give a shout out to my sponsor production crate now hold on hold on you want to click the x button you want to get out of this video cuz I'm talking about sponsors well hold on I've been actually working with production crate or using production crate for the past two years it was only until like a month or two ago that I actually had them as a sponsor they have incredible sound effects and I've used them in my videos and my video games great sound effects great music and great Motion Graphics

I'll be honest with you guys most stock audio stock Motion Graphics websites they kind of suck but production crate really has incredible handcrafted music graphics and uh sound effects so if that's something you guys are interested in click the link below all right the third reason why you should consider making game development your full-time job is you get to play God I mean this career has made me really think honestly about the concept of God and also the concept of Being Human I know this might sound weird but the moment I started making games it started making me think is this what being a human is really all about and that is creating worlds and telling stories guys think about who the most popular people who the most idolized figures are in our lives and I'm not saying this is a good way to think but go with me for a second who are the most idolized people in the

world well it's probably people in Hollywood stars or maybe YouTube personalities and influencers these are really people who tell stories so human beings are for some reason we're attached to telling stories and so when you make games um you get to play God and you get to embrace sort of this um natural tendency to create worlds and you get to be an artist an illustrator a musician you get to be a coder an architect you get to create characters and tell stories um you get to create puzzles you get to manipulate the player I mean there's so many things that you can do um and play God and it's so funny when I'm making games suddenly I feel maybe a thousand times more human than when I leave the office and that's a really cool feeling and it's hard to explain it to someone who hasn't made games all right the fourth reason why Making Games should be a career you consider is that you to fly all over the world you get to

experience conferences and people from all cultures all over the world now go with me for just a second you're thinking well that sounds really expensive why is it that game development allows you to do that as opposed to other jobs well the thing is that when you make a game you can work with a publisher and you can also get sponsors and you can also work with software companies who find you valuable to their brand now thank you Unity cuz Unity actually flew me out to GDC um in San Francisco and some of you are thinking Thomas you have 100 50,000 subscribers of course they flew you out I don't have 150,000 subscribers so I'm not going to get that opportunity believe it or not 10 years ago when I started making games that was when I was 18 the first company um that I worked with as a publisher flew me out to GDC and that was when it was in Austin Texas I've been flown to South by Southwest I've been flown um to pa um I certainly was able to at least engage with people at E3 even though I wasn't there personally um so there's been plenty of opportunities for me to fly all over

America um to experience the gaming community and different sort of sections and cultures of the gaming community and honestly just experience great cities and great food I know that might sound like a weird point to make for game development but it really is something that I sort of hang my hat on I get to experience the world I get to see the world um and it's basically free um so that's pretty cool all right the fifth reason why you should make games and this one guys this one is hug huge is that the ceiling for your career as a game developer it's it's endless it's infinite well there's a ceiling above my head but if I looked through the ceiling it would be endless it' be stars and galaxies the indie game world is like galaxies and that's pretty cool so what I'm trying to say is that my previous job as a graphic designer honestly I knew there was a ceiling I knew what the cap was I knew what the salary cap was and it wasn't great

and if I wanted to go beyond that salary I knew that I would need to either change careers or change jobs or move to a different city something like that and I knew I didn't want to do that I didn't want to move my family around um also the opportunities available to maybe get exposure or get some form of I mean I like getting a little bit of attention um honestly and the the opportunities to get attention in Awards and and get people to see my work it wasn't really available in that job in that career um so jumping to game development made me realize that you can go to a sixf figure salary or you know obviously you can you can make a million bucks I mean that's not true for me personally but I know that in the future that opportunity is always available to me it's kind of like having a light at the end of the tunnel especially when you have a bad day um all of us have bad days whether we're students or working a desk job we know that there's a grind to the work we do and that's certainly not um unique to just desk jobs or or being not a game

developer I feel that way all the time there's a grind to the work that I do this hair is driving me Insanity it's driving me insanity but I like how it looks it kind of looks like Jonathan Taylor Thomas or Michael Jackson okay that's better there we go I can see much better now just ask Jonathan Blow just ask Edmond McMillan just ask Michael Jackson there are so many peop out there who have made a a ton of um it could be wealth but it could be influence it could be notoriety or just feeling satisfied in their career these are things that you can't really achieve if you have a job that's safe so I would just recommend that if you're somebody who is brave or wants to be brave making games could be the career for you because the ceiling is end list all right guys those are five reasons why game development should be a career that you could consider um it's really a great job I've been doing this for 10 years doesn't mean it's not stressful there's plenty of stressful days but it's really a fun job it's exciting you get to play God you get to

travel the world um and have great conversations even if it's somebody who's installing your internet um there's incredible conversations to be had about being a game developer guys if you like this video hit the Subscribe button hit the Bell icon hit the comment button I mean leave a comment and I'll try and answer as best as I can I have a patreon account and it really does help me out guys the reason I make videos is my sponsors and my patreon account and just interacting with you guys it helps support me supports the studio helps me make games if you guys want to support on patreon and join private streams and chat with me and my wonderful beautiful personality consider sponsoring on patreon all right guys thanks for watching bye love you [Music]