Career Investigation Assignment

My ideal career is becoming a lead game designer at a mid sized company. I’m a visual and details oriented person. I thrive in an open creative workplace where I can make a product, like an animated film or game. I love to play games and I’m always drawing and taking things apart to see how they work. I want to answer why even thou only 1% more gamers are male than female, why most games have a male protagonist. When the main character is female why does she have to be a over sexed stereotype in most cases.

My family and god take a priority in my life; I hope to bring my values and ideas to a project to create a good family clean fun game for children and adults to learn new things. I have enjoyed playing games and set design. Creating a game is a lot like a stage play a writer has an idea and makes a screenplay, various artists create backgrounds and characters based on the original idea. Riggers take the first concept arts and char builds and start to make it move. This process can be easily done if char are all the same size or type. Basically humanoid creatures can be easy to build a skeletal frame for. Ive been drawing humorous illustrations for several years but only recently have started drawing what I would even hesitantly call artwork. Im slowly turning this into a talent talent takes along time to develop. Talent is not something we are born with but something we are dedicated to. I’m very driven and dedicated, College will give me the necessary time-management skills to meet deadlines and reach goals. Looking at the requirements to get my degree in my chosen field, I need four math classes, two programming classes and, a great grasp of various 2/3d drawing programs. The core skills no one puts on their resume is a huge part of what you learn in college, or what you learn how to do. Writing papers and letters and memos will defiantly serve me quite well looking for a raise in the workforce. The introspection required to decide why your major is what your ideal career is is tough. If its not tough your not really looking inside to see what truly matters to you. I was created by God and theirs only one of me so what is my purpose on earth? Should I continue to live for myself or should I make the decision that I must make the world a better place everyday im here. I pack any artwork or drawing I do with hidden meanings or messages. I started drawing as an escape from reality, now my artistic vision is wider in scope. I include hidden meaning and hidden images in all my paintings. I hope to work on games at a midsized company and bring that to the table. I enjoy working as part of a team and making something that lasts. If im not there to input my part of the job it doesn’t get done if the sequel to a game doesn’t include me it wont have the same feeling behind it. I learned in my personality survey that im an idealist/healer, I strive to understand and help the world and people around me. I would love to do that in a game world, imagina a game where making decisions to help people makes a huge positive impact on the character interacting negatively with people can have neg or positive reprocussions but the focus on the game is helping the weak or defenceless survive or complete a goal.

A lot of games these days are overly violent I was in the army and have studied the history of warfare, humans do terrible things to each other. Sitting down and blowing stuff up on a game can sometimes be fun but that shouldn’t be the main focus. I want a game where even if its war wounded solidjers get treated for wounds or taken to medics, enemies can surrender or retreat. Battle is a ugly noisy thing but I think a lil clarification that the goal is to secure an objective and deny it to the enemy would be a lot easier than killing a platoons worth of solidjers.