Which field makes more money/is more rewarding in the end? Game development and programming (Software Engineering) or Web development (PHP, HTML, etc.)? Which field makes more money for high end jobs?

You can make the same in both...but its a lot easier to get a job in Web development.

Game/Software development/programming

Residue Income owns ALL fix income. Why get paid one time when you can get paid when someone buys the game/software.

Game/Software development/programming

Residue Income owns ALL fix income. Why get paid one time when you can get paid when someone buys the game/software.

True, unless you're just a programming who makes the game and gets paid for his time.. while the publisher/etc get paid everytime the game is bought.

I know C++/assembly programmers that make between $50-100 an hour doing private contract work. I'm not sure about game design but I know its a competitive field (though the field is growing steadily.) Web design is probably a bad choice with the dot com crash ect.

If you wanna do game design I would start out trying to be a programmer first and not the other way around.

If you wanna do game design I would start out trying to be a programmer first and not the other way around.


Yeah, also getting a job as a game developer is hard and not something you are going to get with no previous experience programming. You also have to have some game experience, at the very least some simple games you've done on your own (such as redo Pac-man or something like that etc).

Also Game development takes more than just programming knowledge, you need decent knowledge of at least one of: mathematics, physics or AI. And when I say "decent knowledge" I mean roughly equivalent to undergrad degrees in those subjects.

I ran a game programming site back in the early 90's...even back then using basic versions of C++ by Borland things where competitive, could hardly imagine what it is like now :)

For one thing, the learning curve for game development is much steeper then for web development (in general)...with game development there are many facets you need to be aware of and it's much harder of a field to just jump into. I developed a C++ game years ago and it was extremely basic, but the amount of libraries you had to be aware of that had to be used just to output a dot on the screen was crazy...I still run a game development link type site to this day (don't develop any games though) called www.gameprogrammingzone.com ...hope this helps.

Your site does not work, you get this error message (why is it being printed to the end user?!?!?):


Error Diagnostic Information

ODBC Error Code = S0002 (Base table not found)

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot find the input table or query 'Catagories'. Make sure it exists and that its name is spelled correctly.

SQL = "SELECT * FROM Catagories ORDER BY cat_name ASC"

Data Source = "TEST2"

The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFQUERY), occupying document position (10:1) to (10:108) in the template file C:\DOMAINS\GAMEPROGRAMMINGZONE.COM\WWWROOT\INDEX.CFM.

Date/Time: 11/07/05 01:25:32
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 (ax)
HTTP Referrer: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=3475438

very strange...i'll see what's going on.

Try checking it out now.

Microsoft Jet database engine

Ouch!

Using access for an online site eh?

BTW, you REALLY dont want to be showing errors on your site like that. Number one, it looks really bad, number two, it helps nefarious people identify your database engine, table structure, sql you are using, etc.