Hey Daniel, I've always wanted to work at Riot Games as a champion designer, ever since I first played league 6 years ago. I just graduated highschool now, but I'm so lost on what direction to go, do you have any advice for me? P.S. Kayn is looking so good! (I love when people misspell him as Kanye)
The best answer I can give here will always be "if you want to be a game designer, start designing games today." Teach yourself one of the simple toolkits to make computer games (Unity is pretty hard but doable; Construct2 and Game Maker are pretty simple; Twine is wonderfully simple and a great tool to make interactive fiction, which some might argue is closer to creative writing than game design, but it'll still teach you to think about decision structures) or go and make a board game / card game with index cards and ugly hand drawn designer art. Get some friends to test it with you, it'll be fun! And then do it again and again.
I wished I could just point you to a good university course that guarantees you a game design job, but there is no such thing yet. You can absolutely take one of the few game design courses that exist at the moment (NYU has a great program), but that alone will not guarantee you a job as a game designer.
I wished I could just point you to a good university course that guarantees you a game design job, but there is no such thing yet. You can absolutely take one of the few game design courses that exist at the moment (NYU has a great program), but that alone will not guarantee you a job as a game designer.