I really wanna learn Japanese, move to Japan, and become a manga artist. I posted a thread about this before a long time ago about becoming a manga artist would be difficult for a foreigner. But what about working for a videogame company. Would learning Japanese, moving to Japan, and working for Nintendo be easier? I wanna work for Nintendo in Japan because I might have the chance to make my own game.
I have no idea, I was just wondering if a foreigner becoming a game designer in Japan would be as hard as a foreigner becoming a manga artist in Japan, I don't know what to do or how to do it. I'M FREAKING OUT!!
But the RPG I'm working on with RPG Maker's called Mimi Fairy. I released a demo of it.
dont wana be a party pooper but im guessing nintendo would only consider going through the trouble of bringing foreign staff if they have had pretty major commercial sucess. Either try and look for smalller development companies in japan or make a name for yourself where you are now. Gives you a chance to learn a bit more japanese.
RPG maker, although helps you make a game, is not a very good start for programming. Nintendou will program in coding, so you need to learn a programming language.
a good start with an easy language is GML (Gamemaker language). Go to gamemaker.nl to download the files. Alongside this learn HTML, CSS and PERL, plus JAVASCRIPT. Then move on to C and C++, learn VB. All in all, it is good to know about 6 programming languages.
I would say the best way to get any job with Nintendo would be to go about it the following way. First complete your school education to the highest level possible, then learn as much as you can about games programming as mentioned in a post above. Then apply for a junior programmers job with one of the many companies that do make games for Nintendo, Im sure you will find several of these game producing companies are always looking for new staff to work for them.
Then stay in that job for at least five or ten years and make a name for yourself as a programmer, and then someone at Nintendo itself may get interested in your work and ask you to go and work for them in Japan.
Hope it works out for you, but remember the games market is always changing from month to month and with yet more new consoles being thought of for release in the near future, it is a business that is constantly changing from year to year.
Nice understatement.
Odds are, Kirby, that you will find a college degree to be required for visa purposes, whether Nintendo cares if you have one or not.
My son was in the USA product launch, Nintendo 1984
As a matter of major, major pride, my son John Ziomek beat out 2000 other wonderful, happy, healthy New York kids for the role of the "little boy" in the original Nintendo commercial, 1984-85 Christmas season.
At that moment, in its infancy, my son had the Duck Hunt gun shooting at the screen, and the $185 dollar product had "Rob the robot" which was a miserable failure. Lucky for the product, the 7 original commercials featured "little boy, little girl, mom and dad", in the regional, seasonal, wild spot, New York and Los Angeles markets only, and I think it went from $0 to $300,000,000 in its first year! Donkey Kong, Super Mario Brothers came immediately afterwards, the rest is history.
I have a super idea for all you wonderful readers of this thread. Where Nintendo's "Rob the Robot" failed, how about an animated "doll" figure on top of your PC, that is fed data from a second printer port, that friends can send programmable instructions and voice to...such as, "Eddie, you sexy beast" in a ??? Paris Hilton voice, and have that figure...??? ...do a ...pole dance...or something?
I mean, instant messages are soooooo....five minutes ago?! (I'm just trying to sound groovy at 55 years old, and zero libido)
I love this website...please, someone invent this product/automated figure!
I think Nice Gaijin makes a good point about the "fun" aspects of gaming being killed by developing them... but, I think I'd rather develop games than test them... now that is the dregs in the gaming community.
I'm really curious if anyone can find any information about non-Japanese making games in Japan... And why Japan? What would be a good idea is to get some sort of bachelors degree, and then some sort of gaming degree... When I say 'gaming degree', as far as I know schools like Full Sail are not accredited schools, so you may get experience that will get you a job in the States, that may not translate well outside...
Your best bet when working with the Japanese is to sell yourself as an American... there are plenty of Japanese people who want to do the exact same thing you do, and baring any special coding abilities you have, they usually can do it 110% better as far as Japanese games go...
I'd say first get yourself some experience working for American game design companies, keep studying your Japanese, ...granted, we're talking about what you want to do 8 years in the future, if you get a bachelors degree... and then go fishing for contacts in Japanese gaming... the two should cross over in some ways... and if you work for Nintendo America, and speak Japanese, it's not outside of the possibilities to be transfered to Nintendo Japan.
Keep your dreams, just work to achieve them one step at a time.
I myself don't make games IN Japan. But I make my own games and sell the rights of the games to Japanese kids. In turn they sell these games in Japan, and I make a quick bit of cash. This may or may not count, as I don't make them there, but they end up only being sold there!
Honestly though, finish your education, go to the highest level then try to get a job with a subsidury company. gambatte!
foreigner get a job to work on Nintendo or as programmer....you have to be really good....also be master on Japanese (and that its not easy)
Japanese culture are not really open to give work for foreigners (if someone lives in japan understand my point of view)
For a foreigner (Gaijin) is always teaching english or work in a Factory (And factorys i dont reccomend).you have to be REALLY good to get another job in Japan.when i say GOOD..i say REALLY GOOD.that its the reality here.
Just my two cents.
For a foreigner (Gaijin) is always teaching english or work in a Factory (And factorys i dont reccomend).you have to be REALLY good to get another job in Japan.when i say GOOD..i say REALLY GOOD.that its the reality here.
I think some other people on this forum who are working other jobs would disagree with you. I'm not saying they aren't good at what they do, I'm saying you make it sound as if you have to be some sort of genius to get any job whatsoever.
The key to working in Japan, is having a marketable skill... If you want to be in the design business the key is to market your differences from the Japanese, not try to emulate them... If 99% of the population were in the medical field, it might behoove you to look for the other under-staffed jobs in that 1%.
Its true..have people working on others kind of works..but most of them are in tokyo...since Tokyo its a big city have more possibilities but small places not.
10 people are talking ...8 are teaching english. that its on Shizuoka area (and Shizuoka is really big).i cant talk about Tokyo.since i never live there.
If you Speak and read/write Japanese this increase your chances but you still a Gaijin and that its a problem.they just hire you if they cant have a japanese in your field.and we have japaneses in all fields...they just dont need anyone.
that its a day by day in Japan.maibe i am too hard on my opinions..but many agree with me here.i am wrong?
I'm not saying that you are alone in your opinions, but for one, I think it's discouraging to say that the only jobs non-Japanese, (& coincidentally, when you live in the United States for a week, you're not a tourist, you're not a "foreigner", you're a resident...) that the only jobs they can do is to teach English.
If you are trying to be a graphic designer in Japan, and you want to design cute things you think that Japanese will like, I think you're in for some disappointment at your prospects at getting a job, the same goes for being a game developer for a Japanese company... In some aspects of some jobs, you both are expected to understand the Japanese work environment, and not only that, understand your Japanese clients, however big that demographic is.
However, there are people, who for example, work as marketing analysts in Japan, granted their Japanese is superb, and it includes the lingo needed to speak about marketing trends, but they're non-Japanese just the same.
If you're moving to Shikoku to find work, you're definitely going to have dimmer prospects than if you move to Osaka or Tokyo.
ps. I also know of living breathing people I have met in real life who have worked in an office environment, who knew keigo, who have worked in Japan. Some decided that the environment didn't suit them, for this or that reason, but these are real people, not my opinions, nor figments of my imagination.
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