u/GameDev-fever07

I am a class 11 student studying in India. I am heavily ambitious to study the Animation and Game (technology specialization) programme offered by hochschule darmstadt, Germany (Darmstadt university of applied sciences).

I have been researching a lot about this. My goal is to learn game development, target game development job then build my own games in future.

I need guidance on how to actually achieve this.

First, can you give me guidance on how to build the portfolio. I need a portfolio for admission. If someone has already been enrolled, please tell me how should I prepare my portfolio.

Also, they take test and interview too. Please tell me what difficulty is of that aptitude test and how should I prepare for it. + I am going to give interview online, so please tell me what questions, grades, they ask for and how to clear it.

If someone is studying or has studied there, please share your experience.

Also, can I get a descent job after the programme?

How competitive is the programm itself?

Your response really matter for a student who is extremely ambitious on building his career in game development...

I am a student of class 11 and I have been planning to start a side hustle activity which could help me make some money. I knew that fancy 'drop shipping' work was not gonna work magically so I came up with a real and doable idea for me. As long as I know, other teen students after schools/coachings are usually ready to eat anything. I thought selling some sort of food to teenagers can be a great way to start. I am just a student and I don't have a good capital (I don't want to spend significant rn). So I researched and found popcorns can be a good way to start. I once casually ordered some basic ingredients for this and ended up making some really good caramel popcorn, which motivated me more.
As of now, I think that I can start with a casual goal of selling 10-12 samples. My starting price is gonna be 50 rupees. I can't find a good way to start, but right now I think that I will go to spots near coaching/academic gates at evening. I will make a small setup consisting of a foldable table and a hand made sign behind it. The popcorns will be made in home and kept in a sealed plastic container through which I will scoop and pour it to tubs and give it to people. I will also keep tissues and toothpicks.
I want to market it as a student trying to promote side hustle in India or just improving himself.

BUT, I am not fully sure about this. I mean I never know if this is gonna work, Weather people would actually stop to buy some from me. Weather this small setup would look stupid. I don't even know how much should I actually price my stuff. Also I have social anxiety which might make me fear. I can overcome this if I am sure that I am doing nothing stupid and my idea is good enough. But that's what I need here.

I request you people to leave an advice for me as I have never tried to sell anything. I'd really appreciate your suggestions for my idea. If you see any flaws or think of any weaknesses, please leave it here. Your response is appreciated.

Why I need it -

So I am a student who got into class 11 this year. I've been planning to find a way to generate myself some money, for let's say a lot of useful reason. Me and my friends have been discussing this often casually, but most of our ideas were ridiculous and won't work. One day, I finally took it serious and decided to come up with a non fancy, more realistic and doable idea.

The Idea -
So basically, the idea was that actually offering a product or service which is easier to sell. I came up with ideas like retail arbitrage (selling cheap items to gen z by presenting it fancy), or, which I think should work with teenagers, food. Popcorns are a thing which can be made for real cheap and be sold with margin as high as 2000%, done by Cinemas already. I thought that I sell popcorns to areas with students' interests (made in home, at least for the start) and market it as if they are getting a higher product value for lower price, I discussed it with my friends at a meetup, somehow we ended up ordering the ingredients and made the caramel recipe which I had saved. Surprisingly, IT TURNED OUT SO WELL, that we got instant motivation that this could work. We started to find affordable small bunch of popcorn tubs. The only suitable deal I found was the 50 tubs for around 400rs. Now, as it is a business, we agreed that we should contribute this money.

The problem -

The other two friends were constantly coming up with excuses not to pay first. (I know 400rs is a small sum, but it can only be done by online payment and currently I haven't told my parents yet). Gradually I realized that these guys do believe in the idea though they think I can push all this, plan everything and they don't need to do anything except for selling. I realized that if I not talk about it, they COMPLETELY forget it and never even bring it up. You already can guess what they'd say if I complete it alone myself. I am beginning to realize that sticking with these guys is not the best choice for me. But I also don't want to drop the idea as I have become sick of asking money from parents for funding my personal interests (pls don't give advices that its ok to ask for money).

Whatever I can think now is to do it myself alone without telling my friends as it has really been days since the day when we brought it up. The thing is, when you are with your friends, you are ready to do almost anything. It will be fu*king easy for me to do it with friends in the name of social experiment/promoting side hustles in India, but I think it is extremely hard to go in a public place and sell the samples of my popcorn all alone. People will ask questions and as I am an ambivert, I am really comfortable to interact with others when I have company. I just don't know how am I gonna do it all alone.

The Question -
Since I told you the whole situation, I genuinely need advice on how I should work this out. I don’t want to drop the idea, but doing all this alone feels intimidating for me, especially interacting with random people in public. I’m much more confident socially when I have company.

At the same time, I’m starting to realize that waiting for my friends may just keep delaying everything.

If I decide to do it alone, the online payment/parents issue won’t really matter anymore. I know this post may sound stupid to some people, but I’d really appreciate honest advice from people who’ve experienced something similar or started something alone.

Your response is genuinely appreciated.

Why I need it -

So I am a student who got into class 11 this year. I've been planning to find a way to generate myself some money, for let's say a lot of useful reason. Me and my friends have been discussing this often casually, but most of our ideas were ridiculous and won't work. One day, I finally took it serious and decided to come up with a non fancy, more realistic and doable idea.

The Idea -
So basically, the idea was that actually offering a product or service which is easier to sell. I came up with ideas like retail arbitrage (selling cheap items to gen z by presenting it fancy), or, which I think should work with teenagers, food. Popcorns are a thing which can be made for real cheap and be sold with margin as high as 2000%, done by Cinemas already. I thought that I sell popcorns to areas with students' interests (made in home, at least for the start) and market it as if they are getting a higher product value for lower price, I discussed it with my friends at a meetup, somehow we ended up ordering the ingredients and made the caramel recipe which I had saved. Surprisingly, IT TURNED OUT SO WELL, that we got instant motivation that this could work. We started to find affordable small bunch of popcorn tubs. The only suitable deal I found was the 50 tubs for around 400rs. Now, as it is a business, we agreed that we should contribute this money.

The problem -

The other two friends were constantly coming up with excuses not to pay first. (I know 400rs is a small sum, but it can only be done by online payment and currently I haven't told my parents yet). Gradually I realized that these guys do believe in the idea though they think I can push all this, plan everything and they don't need to do anything except for selling. I realized that if I not talk about it, they COMPLETELY forget it and never even bring it up. You already can guess what they'd say if I complete it alone myself. I am beginning to realize that sticking with these guys is not the best choice for me. But I also don't want to drop the idea as I have become sick of asking money from parents for funding my personal interests (pls don't give advices that its ok to ask for money).

Whatever I can think now is to do it myself alone without telling my friends as it has really been days since the day when we brought it up. The thing is, when you are with your friends, you are ready to do almost anything. It will be fu*king easy for me to do it with friends in the name of social experiment/promoting side hustles in India, but I think it is extremely hard to go in a public place and sell the samples of my popcorn all alone. People will ask questions and as I am an ambivert, I am really comfortable to interact with others when I have company. I just don't know how am I gonna do it all alone.

The Question -
Since I told you the whole situation, I genuinely need advice on how I should work this out. I don’t want to drop the idea, but doing all this alone feels intimidating for me, especially interacting with random people in public. I’m much more confident socially when I have company.

At the same time, I’m starting to realize that waiting for my friends may just keep delaying everything.

If I decide to do it alone, the online payment/parents issue won’t really matter anymore. I know this post may sound stupid to some people, but I’d really appreciate honest advice from people who’ve experienced something similar or started something alone.

Your response is genuinely appreciated.

I am a blender beginner (you can see my artwork in my profile) and just jumping into game development. I know I will need to model custom assets which I can use in my game. The only thing is I don't know how to make a model game ready. Like I know low poly is preferred for games, but I don't know how it is being actually made working in a game.
I want to ask what is the process after actually modelling the object in blender, to making it alive in Unity engine.

I know this question is stupid as we gotta learn every thing along the path, but I am just curious how it is done.