[Leonardo]

You have nice forums here!!!

I'd like to share with you my idea.

A few months ago, I read on Ps2 Official Europe an interview to the creator of FF series, Hironobu Sakaguchi. He gave this suggestion to the ones who wanted to become game developers: you have to create your own game, with a team of 5-6 people, and then you have to send your work to a publisher.

Actually, I think that in this period is effectively possible. Ten years ago it was extremely difficult to find the info to become a game developer, but now, on Internet, you have all the material you need, if you are a good searcher. You can have the code of great games like UT, Tomb Raider and so on, and you can study it. There are dozens of 3d engines that you can use, for FREE, in your games. You can modify them, create level editors and so on.

You can also find every sort of tutorial, guide on every programming language available. You can find guides on game programming and all for free.

Of course, you need to create a team of 4-5 persons. And even if you don't have any experience, each memeber could start learning a thing: characters & environments design, c++, 3d studio max or more accessible 3d modeling software, midi music and so on, plus a good experience of cinematographic language.

Then, Internet is also a useful place to find beta testers! Beta testers cost a lot of money, but on Interent you can let a certain number of people download an unfinished copy of your game and let them test it.

Of course, this is a dream. But I think with 5 really motivated people, this could be a good, good idea.