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Looking for help starting a portfolio.

vintarvintar
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Plain and simple, game development is my passion, as I`m sure it is of everyone on this forum! I am self-employed and do rather well, but, my work has nothing to do with computers at all and so I am looking for a way in. If anyone in the Durbs area is ever looking for a junior programmer, or indeed anyone else in the rest of the country had any that could be done remotely for me to at least sink my teeth into, please give me a shout. I do not have any degrees, but I more than make up for that with determination and passion. I have 4 years experience with developing using the Xray engine SDK ( used for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series) including scripting in LUA. I have been using Unity now for over 7 months or so and find that C# and the Unity SDK fits my developing style quite well. I`m a good problem solver, and of course I could start my own portfolio, but unfortunately I can never think of great ideas for games and so find it best that I am given direction to work towards. Ok enough about me :p

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  • dislekciadislekcia
    I'm curious, what makes you say your ideas aren't good? I have loads of crap ideas all the time, but I only find out that they're crap after I try to make them. There's a lot of making crap things in this line of work, the trick is to be able to move on to a new thing as soon as the crap starts being obvious ;)

    Have you tried making your own takes on classic games? Things like Tetris, Bejewelled, Solitaire, etc? Those could all form valuable portfolio pieces eventually and you'd still be growing your skills. Maybe you'd even find yourself putting a classic game together completely differently at some point and *bam* suddenly you're inspired to make something unique out of it.

    I think the rebooting of the competitions will definitely help though - if you're having a hard time coming up with your own games to enter, there should be plenty of other projects that you can join for the month-long duration of the comp. That's often how lasting teams are built :)
  • vintarvintar
    Yes I think the competitions will help, looking forward to them.
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