I'm learning how to make Xbox and PC games, and you can too

It's affordable to learn game development.

As a kid, at around age thirteen or fourteen, it was some sort of rule at least in my school that teens would do some work experience and then be assessed and given "career advice." After having done a two-week stint filing paperwork in a benefits office, I already felt a little jaded about what my future could look like.


Learning to make simple games as a creative hobby has proven incredibly rewarding.


I met my "careers adviser" at school, and she asked me what sort of jobs I had in mind. In my teens, I ran an animation website and forum with tens of thousands of members, making Adobe Flash cartoons out of stick figures with some video game and anime inspiration on the side. I had actually programmed some incredibly crude games using Adobe Flash' Action Script, but becoming an actual game designer felt like some sort of impossible unobtainable fantasy. So impossible, in fact, that I thought my career suggestion to become a paleontolo...