You think you need a college degree to become a videogame developer? Yeah, maybe if you want to work for Activision or EA or some stupid big shot company but if you self taught yourself you can make your own video game developing company.
People go to school for a videogame developing job but all those loving jobs are taken 9 times out of 10. Going independent is the way to go.
Shut the forget up, Tony. You don't know what the forget you're on about.
Independent development fails most of the time. This isn't bullstuff, it's the real loving world. I can guarantee most of those failures are because the developers didn't study game design or business and so their naivety leads to terrible games and bad business practice. You listen to any podcast by any successful indie game developer, and they'll tell you what the struggle was like to get serious and actually formally create and run a company and produce a game that sells well.
Nobody goes to a VG dev course for the job. They go because they want to be tutored in the skills, get contacts for the future and produce video games for their portfolio. Nobody gives a stuff about the slip of paper; it's all about what you manage to produce and show at the end. I can guarantee going to a GOOD design school is highly recommended.
One of my friends now works at Tt Games working on LEGO projects; he went for a programming course and got an internship at Two Tribes. Those opportunities may never have existed had he not started with the programming course.
