My art major friend has it way worse than I do. Funny enough, history is pretty relevant from at least understanding how society got to where it is, and funny enough, things don't change as much as people think they did. I got to read a first account record from Rome where a guy basically talks about how the empire is falling apart because of the government letting non-Romans into the country and complaining about how kids don't have respect anymore for the old ways and drive their chariots too fast down the road. It took awhile for my professor to convince us the whole thing was a real account and not some comic farce written a few years ago. With that said, you are correct that history doesn't lend itself too well for career options outside of history teacher. I had a former co-worker recently try to convince me to try becoming a substitute history teacher. What about you, what did/are you studying in school?
Oh that's a cool minor, though also one that feels like it doesn't have much in terms of career options? Maybe I'm wrong. But it is an interesting subject, and I'm kinda wondering how much of our culture and values is still in line with what was established in those times. Also good to hear your student debts aren't that bad, though sucks for your friends >.< heard quite a few horror stories there. Though I think America's moving away from that, if slowly? Not sure how much it'll fix though.
I settles for Interactive Design which is basically web design. I don't enjoy it though so I dropped out of the field fairly quickly though. On the bright side, my student loan debt isn't as bad as some of my peers and few of my friends in the field are also dropping out of it, so I don't feel quite as bad about giving up on it. My minor was History with a specialization on English Colonialism and imperialism.
I see ^^ well a good thing to realize before you dedicate yourself too hard. Kind of struggling with that now myself. If I may ask, what did you end up changing to?
Initially, but I changed it partway since I realized I didn't have the aptitude for computer science.
Hmm so did you do a CompSci degree?
Yeah, I used pre-made assets. The game was more about learning how to program the logic of these assets, so beginner course about the basics of making movable models. I had a lot of fun in that class, sadly my more advanced programming classes were a bit more boring and practical so it was harder to retain stuff. I spent half the semester thinking I was failing and had to see my professor after every class to get help with the homework.
That's awesome ^^ it's always nice when classes like that actually allow you to get creative and make something you actually want to make. I take it you used premade assets? Never been good at graphic design myself so as you might tell by that video I also just try to pick models that "kinda" look like what they're supposed to represent ^^ but there's a bit of charm to low budget recreations as well when it still strikes the 'greater whole' well enough to let you overlook the details.
That's cool, and I bet it can be fun. I remember doing an entry level programming class where we played with a program called Alice to learn fundamental logic principles. Long story short, we had to do a project where we built a static city using the object models and I got carried away and actually made a really crappy redo of the opening of FFVII with Aerith walking down the street and the camera zooming out to see the whole city. It was super fun trying to recreate the scene perfectly even if the in-engine object models were mostly as far from VII's aesthetics as possible.
Yeah it was a lot of fun recreating the fight. Also did a few from other games (and a lot of Final Fantasy bosses ofc). It's interesting "porting" fights like those to a different fundamental combat engine and trying to be as faithful as possible while still focusing primarily on making it fun to play. But sometimes it really works.
