Can Unreal Engine learn at the age of 30?

Because of my work relationship (as the official community manager of Unreal), because I am a little older (running to the fourth year), and because I actually worked as a UE4 training instructor for two or three years a few years ago, and sampled all kinds of various recruited in the society. people. In my daily work, various people often consult me privately, such as whether I can learn UE in my 30s, and which of the two offers is better.

In response to the question, my answer is: It’s a bit difficult but not impossible

It is a bit difficult: first, age is indeed disadvantaged, second, education is at a disadvantage, third, lack of work experience, fourth, limited development potential. For now, it is almost starting from scratch to engage in game development. In the same job market, they are far better than young professional counterparts, let alone seniors of the same age. There is also a fifth point. As an interviewer, I will secretly speculate in my heart that you only started to change careers when you are in your 30s, and you may have more or less problems with your learning ability or personality. One more thing is worse than one less thing, and there are so many other candidates, why should I recruit you? Saying this is to let the subject owner clearly understand his own disadvantages, and of course, don’t be fooled by various training institutions, as long as you finish your studies.

Not infeasible: certainly not hopeless. Let me imagine under what circumstances would I hire you? As long as you come up with a demo of UE in person and answer the technical interview questions well, then I will be willing to give you a chance to start from a junior position. How it develops in the future depends on your own efforts and good fortune. Although the chance is not big, if you can really learn to use the technology to convince the public to develop into a core backbone or a leader, then you have to give you a good word. The second is that although IT also looks at academic qualifications, it does not look like other traditional industries, and it will not give you a chance. Therefore, I am not as pessimistic as other respondents. It seems that there is only a 1% chance. I think it is at least 5%. In IT or game development circles, I’m a bit rough, as long as you can help me with my work and realize what I want, that’s fine. I don’t care what else you do. I don’t care what education you have, what background you have, and even whether you are employed in the company or not, I can outsource it to you to work part-time (a lot of people ask me to introduce people to work like this). The third is that UE’s talent demand is indeed far from being saturated. Domestic companies using UE, including game and non-game ones, are still growing. This is good for people who switch careers at an older age, unlike web or apps that are very mature and saturated.

Diligence can make up for one’s own weakness: Having said so much, there is only one central idea. It’s okay for outsiders to say that you can’t do it, but you must be able to prove that you can do it yourself. There are so many difficulties and dangers ahead, and the lost time and opportunities in the past cannot be undone. If you have the will now, the only thing you can do is to spend more effort than ordinary people in the future. You study when others are watching dramas, you study when others play games, and you study when others go out and fall in love. You have to continue to learn when ordinary people can’t learn anymore. When normal people are already upset and want to give up, you still have to learn! Otherwise, why would you fill those gaps and sit together in a post?

Aim low: Don’t imagine how much you can achieve as long as you work hard. Too high expectations will not be met, but will damage your confidence to move forward. I hope that the title owner will also clearly recognize his ceiling bottleneck, and there is no shortage of bigwigs in the game circle. There are too many people with better backgrounds than you, more resources, smarter and harder than you, how can you compare? When you see such a natural gap, you realize it, and people who are psychologically vulnerable will be sad again. So my suggestion to the topic owner is not to compare with the seniors who are already in the industry, or even with the young people who are just starting out, just compare yourself with yourself. Today I have more meetings than yesterday. I have learned a function, achieved an effect, and understood a principle. Time is already your enemy, but you can still treat it as a friend. I believe in the power of time. If you can keep learning and progress every day, after a year of continuous learning, I believe you can make a UE demo. Find one I think it is completely feasible for a small and medium-sized company to get a junior position. At that stage, you have actually changed careers and successfully landed, and you can eat with your new skills. If it can be done, it will undoubtedly be an achievement for the subject. I’ll figure it out later. On the other hand, the subject is now 30 years old and wants to change careers, which shows that the previous industry has not done much. Since it has been so bad before, it will not be so bad in the future. Therefore, the mentality is better. As long as you make progress and achieve your own small goals, it is already a victory.

Can you really do it?

Although it was mentioned earlier that diligence can make up for one’s own weakness, it requires a profound ability to learn willpower and self-discipline. I deeply doubt whether the subject can do it. Therefore, when it comes to the actual implementation stage, I suggest that the subject owner should not go to the training class first, but can go to the Internet to learn by himself. There are already many online learning resources for UE. Here are the various learning resources I have summarized: Summary of Unreal Engine Learning Resources . If you encounter problems in the learning process, you are also welcome to go to the major QQ groups to communicate with you, and let others cheer you up. Let’s study by myself for a month to verify my learning ability. If I can continue to learn, it means that everything is negotiable. Otherwise, you are just talking on a whim, and you can continue to stay where you are warm.

I have always firmly believed in one sentence: if you want to get better grades than ordinary people, you have to put in more effort than ordinary people, and do things that ordinary people can’t do, otherwise you will be excellent.

Send it to future fellow travelers who may be a little confused for the time being.

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