I'm front-end developer and designer. I participated many Game Jams (for fun). I don't work as game developer because here in Brazil we don't have many studies that develop games. :(

@sshteeve Unfortunately not. South America does not focus on games. The few studios we have are very small and usually managed by friends. The games here do not usually have visibility either inside or outside the country. There is no support. Games made here are usually ordered by companies for specific advertisements.

Awesome topic! I'm currently in my last year of university, I study Computer Programming, although we don't have anything related to game development here (sadly), I started working in Unity Engine about 2 years ago and was watching tutorials on YouTube. I've been passionate about games since I was really young, I'd say about age 8-9, I started playing those old platformer games, and then I discovered WarCraft 3 and played the game like a mad man.

Then for a long time I played various types of games, from RTS to RPG's, shooters, moba's, etc. but it was when I started highschool, this whole process of making video games, that caught my eye. It was fun at first to watch early stages of those triple A games, and how buggy they were or the low poly objects and simple assets used as placeholders for features, content, mechanics. Also it was really interesting to watch interviews with developers from different departments, just to get an insight of what that work requires and how dedicated you need to be to release such games!

Now, whenever I get the chance, I work on a small 2D platformer game and since I don't really have a team to help me on the art side, I've found some cool environment assets online that I grabbed as fast as possible. For a future project I talked to some friends and they were interested in a 3D game, so I have some knowledge related to 3D modelling, rendering, textures, animations.

I dedicated some time to play Sea of Thieves because it's such a great game to play with friends, and also I'm looking to get more involved in the community, on the forums, help new players and stuff, because I joined the forums a while ago but I wasn't that active.

That's about it from me, I would like to see if other members of this beautiful community are passionate about game development and hear their story!

Thanks again for this topic! Yarr!

web developer by day
pirate / hobbyist unity developer by night

no industry experience, do it for my own personal enjoyment

@xcalypt0x That is awesome! I am waiting to finish my studies and try to get an internship at Ubisoft since they are the only option that I have in my country (they have a pretty big office in capital city). The internship is about gameplay programming and it lasts for one year, but I recently saw that Rare gives internships as well and the only option I got is when they open the applications for the next year, because I will graduate this summer and I won't be able to go if I get accepted. They stated that you need to be enroled in univeristy or have graduated within the last year, and it sounds really promising to me! My dream job would be to work in a game development company, it doesn't really matter which one as long as you have a nice team that is passionate about making games.