WHen i started programming i c was just out of high school. My first programs was small emmbedde programs of Micro controller's. I did sume linux programming a 7 months ago for 2 years. Now i am 25 years old and im wandering if i am to old to get into the game development industry?

I understand but now a days kids creating games from the age of 11 to 13, and starting now would take a person longer to learn all the trick of the trade. And mixing now with a younger crowd is a bit hard. The best of the best have 5 to 10 years of experiance and they ar only turning 22.

MMM.. You have a point. But what about programming skills? What if your programming skills aren’t that good?

I have doen some software project's in a groupe and i have made my own software packges using MS V C++ and GCC in linux, but it is mostly for the electronic market.
Where do start now, getting in to it?

Thanks you are right. it is never to late to start and that was all the confidence I needed.


Thanks.

I was 25 when I moved from financal software development to games development. It's a fine age to start doing games.

Besides, as you grow older, you'll find that your code becomes cleaner, better organized, and more solid. I didn't become a really good developer until the last three years of my career, and I still have plenty to learn.

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Thanks you are right. it is never to late to start and that was all the confidence I needed.

Thanks.

Maybe someone has told you that you have to start young to become good enough to be a games programmer. Whoever told you that was probably tying to scare you off. At 25, i dont see that there would be a problem.

Now that i think of it I can remember being told this by some people but i cant place exatly who. All i remember what people told me "to be a games programmer you have to be like programming from the age of 8 and become so elite." Maybe the Carmacks and the Sweenys and the guy who wrote the build engine (what was his name?) were like this, but for every one of them there is 50 other programmers who started programming in university and went into games after there. I really dont see how games is that differnt from normal programming. You have to show dedication and build a portfolio to get into the industry, but I am sure games programming other than being more intresintg is not too differnt then being a MS programmer writing parts of MS word.

I didnt know what a program looked like before I went to university though i wanted to be a programmer. 3 years later i dont see what would stop me at the age of 20 from getting into the industry one day...