In 2011 it was reported that the Games industry is Projected to grow an additional 30% by 2016, currently the gaming industry produces sales of over 18 billion per year. Colleges and degrees specifically for game design and production are becoming increasingly advanced and popular, and in the UK there is a mass shortage of skills in this section. From the Start of the history of gaming in 1958 to modern day this is a magnificent jump into being an industry that everybody loves and will be around for a very very long time. No matter what age, we all as human being love to play games. And now is the best time to teach yourself the skills you need to succeed and get ahead of the rest, get into a career you deserve and desire.
Arising as a prominent branch of game development in the 1970s after the huge success of arcade video games, game designers as we know them today were tasked with designing the bulk of content for the game, including the rules, storyline, characters and overall appeal. Today, game designing is a multi-million dollar industry that's only expected to grow larger as technology advances. First person shooters became really popular when Wolfenstein hit the gaming industry more than 20 years ago. It was then the most exciting and popular FPS to ever grace the gaming shelves and if you didn't own the game, you weren't cool.
The image below is from the RPG iphone version.
Just about everyone played Wolfenstein, from young kindergarten kids to grown adults. Then a short while later Duke Nuken 3D hit the streets and FPS was firmly established as the most popular theme in gaming history.
Every gaming developer jumped on the bandwagon and designed some form of FPS. It seemed nothing would beat FPS and their march to undisputed king of games was almost a certainty. But alas, the gaming industry can change as fast as the weather and just when the sun seemed to shine the brightest on FPS titles, Battlefield and Call of Duty hit the shelves and all other FPS died in that blaze of gunfire. No one played any other FPS again. Battlefield and Call of Duty ruled the roost and they still do. An end of an era had begun.
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