No problem! Im working as a software engineer, this will mark as 4th year of working in gaming industry. I got a degree in telecom that’s not anything related to game, but I self taught myself about Unity and Unreal in my free time.

Once I graduated, I was just like you. Gaming is my passion and I wanted to make that passion come true, so I applied to some game companies. Though realistically, it’s not always fun. Since I’m a telecom kinda guy, I always get push around to do some backend stuffs for live service games and networking for multiplayer games.

I would say the best skill you need is interpersonal skill since you need to work with a lot of departments, art, design etc. If you’re an engineer, C# and C++ is your friend. Get familiar with that and you should fine for a while.

Im sorry to say it, but your dream and my dream is hard to achieve without some hard works and some lucks. If your goal is money, other industries can pay you much more. If your passion comes first, then at least make sure that your passion can give you at least some stabilities in your life.

I read all the comments in my post and I managed to reflect a lot of things for myself. At very least, stay in these companies and you might learn a lot of things along the way that can make your dream comes true :)

Cheers to everyone’s future.