Hello community.
Well I read through every single introduction here and I have to say.. damn, I felt like nothing. Just for a while though until I realised that none of you got your jobs and skills without dedication. All of you have been where I am now: clueless.
My name is Ricardo and I'm from Portugal. 23 years old and no degree whatsoever (I have some minor technical courses).
I have never made a map using a level editor, just a whole bunch of them on paper for use on my tabletop RPG games like D&D, among others. First game I played was DOOM, the first one on DOS and I remember being really intrigued by the "designers choices". You know, why they chose what they chose and what led them to those choises.
I am a junior software developer in a private security company and I can work my way around C#, but I'm no expert. I've messed around with Unity a bit but am now installing UE4.
The plan is, read good books in everything related to game design, level design, 3D; learning C# or C++ and just work my ass off to be able to make something. Create something that I can be proud of and that other people can enjoy!
Also, unfortunately my artistic skills are those of a rotten potato... I need to work on that too
Thanks for having me