Dear people who actually work at videogame industry:

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So i´ve decided thanks to you guys that the best is to study in an university outside México. May I ask some suggestions? I mean, Im honestly totally lost at looking for universities. The world looks too big and i dont have idea of where to start looking. I mean, i would choose US, Canada or Europe, but i dont know.

Suggestions :(

Thanks for everything guys :D

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So i´ve decided thanks to you guys that the best is to study in an university outside México. May I ask some suggestions? I mean, Im honestly totally lost at looking for universities. The world looks too big and i dont have idea of where to start looking. I mean, i would choose US, Canada or Europe, but i dont know.

YOU have to decide this. Decide what you want to study. Then find schools that offer that course of study, and compare
costs, distance from your home, and other criteria that are important to you.
Read this forum's FAQs, and make a decision grid.
http://www.sloperama.com/advice/lesson25.htm
http://www.sloperama.com/advice/m70.htm

-- Tom Sloper -- sloperama.com

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- create work that jumps of the page
- have a long breath and try to network with people as much as possible

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So i´ve decided thanks to you guys that the best is to study in an university outside México. May I ask some suggestions? I mean, Im honestly totally lost at looking for universities. The world looks too big and i dont have idea of where to start looking. I mean, i would choose US, Canada or Europe, but i dont know.

Suggestions :(

Thanks for everything guys :D

Hold on!

That would suggest that if we had told you that you to drop out of high school and pursue your dreams, you would have seriously considered it?

Sigh,

No matter the age, or education level, there have always been those who considered dropping out to pursue a dream job. before games it was acting....

It's easy to imagine how if only everyone saw what a genius/ how talented you are, people would line up and pray for you to come work for them to make it big. But regardless of your actual abilities, dropping out of any level of school will set you back years, decades if your not lucky.

The thing is, this field is highly subjective, as is most things, but degrees are objective. Degrees are clear understandable, standardized benchmarks of accomplishment that anyone can understand.

writing an unpublished book, making a mod/ indie game, drawing art, composing music, programming a game, are all subjective accomplishments best understood by the creator. Trying to get others to understand, and seethe promise is the goal of getting paid for your work.

As for what you should study in school: Everything:

I once told a new designer the same thing, but it can be shortened to:

The more you know, the more your game can be about.

Your asking random strangers on the internet what you should do with your life, make sure you figure it out through introspection before you decide to jump on a band wagon.

Also, keep in mind, your young, that will work against you now, but may work for you later, in that sense, you will see and be able to understand technologies that arn't even invented yet much easier then older people.

And indeed, as the others above said, the fact that your righting off subject of non interest is typical of your age, and it will get better in end of HS or college.

You never know what info will help u in the future, especially since it sounds like you don't know where you want to be on the future.

Good luck.

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