Here, I introduced myself, but I didn't pose any questions. Now I've thought more about what I wanted to ask.

Eric Barone, also known as ConcernedApe, created Stardew Valley entirely on his own in 4 and a half years. He is such a huge inspiration to me. Like him, I have multiple talents and interests, and one of the biggest things that draws me to game development is the potential to utilize most, if not all, of my skills. I don't want to just be a programmer, or just make art, you know? I want to be with the game, almost every step of the way, from concept to publication and beyond.

But that's a lot of skills to cultivate. How do I balance it all without suffering in every area? How much is too much?

Skills or talents that I have, in some quantity (meaning, I have the capacity to do this well, someday):

• Programming
• Visual Art
• Music and Composition
• Writing and Storytelling

The most intimidating aspect to me is the overall design, handling things like mechanics — like it currently bewilders me how someone would go about balancing stats and numbers in a game. But I see that also as a challenge, a skill that I can cultivate with time as I create and finish more and more projects.

I'm thinking that, if I were to be part of a team, I might want to be a Game Designer. Just because I could be a jack of all trades well enough to communicate and work with others specializing in certain areas of the game's production. But my heart is also in Indie, and in "Doing it all myself."

How do I make it work? Can I do it? Is it worth doing?

1 hour ago, Karyme Virginia said:

1. How do I make it work? 2. Can I do it? 3. Is it worth doing?

1. Perseverance.

2. I don't know. That's for you to figure out.

3. Of course it is, if you want to do it. 

focus on what needs to be done.

Being a multi skilled person is fine, there are some of them every where, but there not really seen as much in the big companies, a big company will ask you to chose one and stick with it.

Smaller companies/projects will be more likely to appreciate the jack of all trades,master of none mentality.

With that diverse a skill set, maybe you should be a producer?

You can talk shop with any of the disciplines and help out, or that would leave you doing none of what u want.

You also need to decide if you will take on all those roles in a project, or if you will just stick to officially doing 1 or 2.

For example, I can do PR, writing, HR,production. yet I have 3 titles, yet I fulfill 4 roles.

Remember:

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.