ffs

[Cranky Old Man]

This isn't true, do you want to know something? It takes 10000 hours of practice with someone teaching you to master something. How will they get those 10000 hours without someone helping them?

With mental strength, maturity and talent.
If you send a thousand people into the wilderness with just a rock and a stick, only the best of them will survive a week. If a man has managed to survive a week in the wilderness with only a rock and a stick, I want to hear his story, because only then is it worthy of being told.

So they'll learn stuff without any help and better for it?
I guess all those Harvard computer science graduates must be shit at- *checks bill gates, gabe newells credidentals* Nope..
This elitist attitude is why so many people don't get into the video games industry. Programming at an advanced level, and no, AngelScript is not advanced, requires teaching to be effective at it, and so does level design and game design to an extent, as well as level editing. The "learn it yourself" attitude rarely works, Markuss Persson (notch) learnt it himself, and he had to get lucky to be known as a great developer, and even then, he's not great at programming.

Yes, I am being elitist, because a player is only looking to play the very best games and stories, of the hundreds of games released each year. The player is being elitist to begin with, and should be proud of it.

When it comes to level design, the available tools are so easy to use, that you can more or less figure them out yourself. The rest of creating a story, requires something that you can't learn in school: Effort, dedication and maturity. Writing a game isn't about simply being able to write code, but to actually do it too. I can program 4-5 languages, including assembler, and I still suck, because I don't finish the projects that I start.