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Discussion on: I switched from software engineering to game development, ask me anything.

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BellMarsT

My brother is starting college and decided to get an associate first in game design. How can I help him achieve his dreams? It seems you did software engineer and then went into game developing, do you recommend for him to do his bachelors in software engineer?

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George

I wouldn't say he would need a degree in software engineering to become a game dev, it's important that he understands the fundamentals which he is able to do online and will very likely be taught in college. As for helping him college is obviously very hard at times and the support family can provide can be very helpful, such as just cheering him up when he's finding times rough, making suggestions for coursework that could help and just spending time with him can certainly help a lot during college.