Poll: Do You Want To Make Games For a Living?

This is a good question

Well, one of my best friends has been creating games (as a fulltime dev) for mobile devices and he's living fine. However, he never sleeps well because his financial health is unstable.

Doing games is much dependent on game life cycle (which is short). At the beginning, money flood in, but that lasts for up to 6 months only. As the game gets beyond its peak, income quickly dwindles. To keep money flooding in, you have to carve out new ideas and make new games all the time. Problem is that it's not easy to come up with big ideas. Many games he made turned out to be failures.

If you invest in app, it's more promising. Maybe, a single good app will nourish you well for the rest of your life. My former boss at an app development company proves this. He made a free music app 2 years ago. Until now, his revenue from ad has accrued by tens of millions of dollars.

Final words, Yes or No is up to different people. But I think being creative and working hard will ensure success.

If i was much better with my math in high school, i'd already be negotiating with Bill Watterson about doing a Spaceman Spiff FPS that takes cues from Quake. (Dunno if he'd approve of Spiff going back in time to undo an alien race's changes to history)

@GameSpot: I would do what he was offered. A community manager for a game. I wouldn't want to be a dev though. Even people who are there to test games say it gets monotonous. I've actually met devs, and they seemed to like the job, but felt it was a thankless one.

If it was a 9 to 5 job, with no crunch time hours that I wouldn't have to sacrifice a lot of my family life for, then yes! Otherwise no.

In the words of General M. Bison

"Of course!"

Yes!

@GameSpot: Yea id like to make games and play them for money hehe...

Wow, only 13% voted no? That's pretty surprising. I guess being a community manager or something would be cool, but I'd rather not work in the games industry.

Of course i would

I've got a lot of ideas but i don't have the least bit of knowledge on how to create games or even where to start learning.

@raugutcon: Why Not Both?