Somewhat reminds me of the opening passage of The Road Less Travelled -
Life is difficult.
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
Somewhat reminds me of the opening passage of The Road Less Travelled -
Life is difficult.
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
Excellent peace of advice.
Here in Mexico our professors teach us the hard/bad way: ''just practice using libraries or functions you will eventually change in order to make your code portable and cross-platform and, of course, efficient.'' Then, when in the Industry, our code is useless.
So, your teacher is awesome.
Mexico's Education System or self-taught culture are lost. Anything we want to improve needs to be done outside our country. There is no realistic chance on making games or doing stuff that raises Mexico's name; at least, on this field. What we do then is as follows: join foreigner groups and forums, buy books, DVD's or related stuff from Amazon, Stan Wiston School, Gnomon School, Animation Mentor, etc. so you can really improve and reach USA or any other country's education and quality level. So, we do it.
Even though we know there is no chance from an outsider to being hired by a famous studio such as Microsoft Studios, EA Games, Epic Games, etc. we keep trying. Because that's what matters. Who knows, may be one day someone from such studios will come looking for really talented foreigner programmers.
Anyway. Thanks for the wise words.
Good luck everyone.
Even though we know there is no chance from an outsider to being hired by a famous studio such as Microsoft Studios, EA Games, Epic Games, etc. we keep trying. Because that's what matters. Who knows, may be one day someone from such studios will come looking for really talented foreigner programmers.
Other countries seem to think that people in the USA don't like them because people from the USA are rude and obnoxious toward them. This is not the case. We are rude and obnoxious toward everyone. MicroSoft, specifically, I know will hire anyone who they feel is the best person for the job. They don't care where you're from as long as you can do what they want. I suspect other companies are the same. There's not strong xenophobia.
That being said, the big studios in the US all started out small - even the more recent ones. They didn't just pop into existence one find day and start crapping out cash cows. They had an idea for a game and they struggled to find the resources to make it happen. Success led to success and they became giants. The same can happen in Mexico. It's hard but it can happen.