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That's not 'balanced' that's the truth. His career is Obsidian. He started as a community manager and ended up leading major projects, but outside Obsidian's door he is still 'just' a community manager. He doesn't have any advanced coding skills that we no of and certainly no writing skills. Having last directed a commercial failure wouldn't help either. The best he could hope for would be senior game tester or contracted work as an external producer.
But he has a degree.That would depend on his willingness to move too far away from LA but even with a great resume finding a job at 42 without any degree in an industry that expects most of its designers to frequently work 80 hours a week when that's precisely what you want to get a break from is going to be hard.
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It really isn't.
Yep. I doubt anyone will turn down a senior designer who created a few of the best received RPGs in the last decade because he doesn't have a degree in some kind of irrelevant field. Some companies are even employing modders at junior positions, game development is not a field where a degree adds too much to the expertise of a person.irrelevant
It really isn't.
It really is.
A degree will help a lot landing your first job. At age 42 what counts is the last five years of your CV. What you did 20 years ago is completely irrelevant.
What if he works for Larian Studios?