the sad, sad truth about game development
Yes, developing games would be really cool. Unfortunately, the sad, sad truth of game developer salaries is covered in this Wired blurb: Game Devs' Salary Survey:
Students might ask, why? Why is this the case when game dev companies make SO much money on each game? Truth is, most games aren't WoW and GTA and Halo2. More importantly, people who LOVE what they do, don't care about the salary. People who want to make games will make games for cheap or for free. Two evidences for this, besides the game development world: (1) open source software (2) university professors.
So wait, a game-loving professor who specializes in open source? Yup, destined always to be poor. Shhhh - don't tell my husband.
At the high end are executive producers, who average $127,375 (assuming six years of experience). Lowly testers pull down a sad, sad $29,722 (assuming three years of back-breaking bug testing).
Students might ask, why? Why is this the case when game dev companies make SO much money on each game? Truth is, most games aren't WoW and GTA and Halo2. More importantly, people who LOVE what they do, don't care about the salary. People who want to make games will make games for cheap or for free. Two evidences for this, besides the game development world: (1) open source software (2) university professors.
So wait, a game-loving professor who specializes in open source? Yup, destined always to be poor. Shhhh - don't tell my husband.
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