• Question: would you like to make games if your current job fails?

    Asked by bev to Alex, Antonio, Christina, Martin, Nicola on 8 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Martin O'Halloran

      Martin O'Halloran answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      Hi Bev,

      One of my students has his own games-development company, so I’ve some idea of what it’s like. Nowadays, its quite competitive so you have to be really creative to make money from games.

      Also people are used to getting lots of games free on the app store, so they really don’t want to pay a lot for a good game. So if you are interested in that industry, you should partner up with a good business person.

      You’ll need someone to manage the advertising and marketing, so you can concentrate on the games-development.

      Personally, I love writing code and creating games, so if I ever leave medical research, I’d definitely consider it.

      If you are interesting in learning to code, see if you can join a local coding-dojo. It’s a great place to learn the basics.

    • Photo: Nicola Greene

      Nicola Greene answered on 8 Nov 2015:

      I tried in the past but I seem to be much better at building physical stuff. I wish my brain worked like that

    • Photo: Christina Lynch

      Christina Lynch answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      I would love to make games but I’m not very imaginative so I would need someone else to think of the idea and I could build it! 🙂

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