Take This Job: Level Designer
The story is the basis for countless daytime TV commercials: Two guys are playing a game when one of them says, "Hey, I could make a better game than this." The pitch is usually for some game-design college that may be your nonaccredited path to living your dream of designing games as a career. For at least one level designer at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series developer Neversoft, though, the path from couch to designer didn’t involve college-it just involved playing one game really well.
