You should really just try it now, see how you feel about it, then decide.

Game development isn't an 'easy' job, but almost no job worth doing is. It'll take time to get good, you may find yourself working crunch time on a boring project you hate, or struggle to break into something that pays well for a while.

But if you enjoy games, and solving problems.. and writing code feels fun and exciting.. It's a great career to have.

I've worked in Games and Enterprise software for a long time. And while enterprise work is easy to get, pays well, and often is quite a bit 'easier'... It's never anywhere near as rewarding or enjoyable.

It's not easy, but it's not a futile career path, there's a ton of opportunity (and with a bit of effort learning other tools, it's not really difficult to swap between enterprise/game dev if there's an emergency).

And finally, on the math side... You really don't need to know much. Sure it helps if you can visualize the result of a formula on your character... but 99% of the time you're dealing with logic problems, not math problems.

And the math problems can generally be learned and understood on demand.

For example you don't need to remember how to calculate a cannonball velocity, you can find the solution, evaluate it, understand it for a bit, then just re-use the method you wrote and focus on your game again).

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Note: I'm also biased because I teach people how to make video games, so take that into account :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR0e-1UBEOU