How do I get involved in the video game industry?
I know it's a very competitive industry now. But I've always wanted to work for a gaming company and get involved since I have a passion for video games. What are some suggestions, ( i.e. college courses, getting a job...)

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To people in the video game industry: What do you at for a potential employee?
First off, I want to work in making video games, I love them to pieces. I've gotten the occasional bad grades for them, I've had lack of sleep from the, and have gotten a damaged nerve in my right thumb because of them. I'm just curious from any people within the video game industry as to what they look for in a potential employee. Such as: Education- What schools look well on an employee It sounds kinda rasicts I know, but is there any specific shool that someone has to be from to look well...Or is it all just skill? How you apply what you learned to what you're doing? Which I think it's true...I mean, there are some people out there who graduate with "great" majors, but then they don't do nothing. Either not looking for work, or not trying hard enough to find it. In other words, not using the knowledge they gained. I'm sorry, that's just my opinion, moving on. Skills- What should someone know when going into the game industry. For example, I want to be a Video Game Designer. They do (from what my High School Advantage teacher at Broadview says, and he's been in the industry 15 yrs) pretty much a bit of everything. Programming, art, animation, etc. What I was getting at is, what if you're really good at art, but kinda lack skills in programming? Do you not hire them or overlook it and assign them to something. Because, large companies usually have 5 designers working on different things. Also, and this is obvious, what do you look for in a person. Well, please and thank you's.

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Do you need advanced mathematics to be a programmer?
I'll be transferring from my university and entering community college next September. For the past few years I've wanted to become an English teacher considering I'm an excellent writer in the language, however I seem to have overlooked the fact that there are literally no jobs available for teachers of any kind in Canada, especially New Brunswick where I live. But I was actually considering my options again, and I found that one of my favourite game developers Bioware is Canadian, and working in the video game industry was always my dream since I was small, but I had confidence issues and I figured they were either all in Japan, US, or the UK. I'm planning on moving to Edmonton and as luck would have it, Bioware has a studio there. I'm not sure which part of game development I want to do though. I've grown an interest in wanting to learn programming, but I heard you need REALLY good math skills in order to do it. However, I've ALWAYS been accommodated and horrible in the subject and in grade 12 I managed to pass the lowest level of math (because I failed F&R) with a bare minimum pass of 60%. It just doesn't click with my brain, so I was wondering, do I really need to know that much math to do programming? And if so, would a person like me be capable of it? Thanks in advance.

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