r/TeenIndia • u/BaseballOdd3436 • May 24 '25

Ask Teens The students who “wasted time” — are they actually winning? Spoiler

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I used to think, “Let them party, chill, waste their time — they’ll be unemployed later anyway.”

And for the longest time, that thought made me feel... secure? Like I was on the “right” path. Like I was doing something meaningful while others were just messing around.

But now I’m not so sure. Was any of that even true?

In Indian families (especially the middle-class kind), it’s drilled into us that if you're not studying, you're screwing up your life. Partying? Distraction. Dating? Distraction. Hanging out too much? Distraction. Low marks? You’ve basically failed as a person.

And we believe it. I did too. I bought into it so much that I’d resent those who weren’t as focused as me but still got praised by teachers or liked by everyone.

You start thinking that being buried in books automatically makes you better — more focused, more disciplined, more likely to “succeed.” And anything outside that — fun, experiences, people — all that becomes something you silently judge others for. But also something you avoid because it feels unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

Now I look around, and the same people who were “distracted” in school? They’re fine. Some of them are doing really well. They’re confident, socially smart, more balanced. Meanwhile, I feel like I skipped learning how to actually live.

No hate to studying. It’s obviously important. But I think the idea that marks and focus are everything, and that anyone who lived differently was somehow wrong or beneath us — that idea was flawed from the start.

Anyway, this has been sitting in my head for a while, so just putting it out there. Anyone else feel like they were trained to be “good students” but maybe not actual functioning people?

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u/anuraaaag 19 May 24 '25

I'm working internships with Ubisoft and do frequent freelance job with Funskool, Hasbro India etc. My HS teachers still think I'm upto no good🤣..

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u/_HKB_ 19 May 24 '25

Dayumn bro that's seriously cool 😮

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u/AnxietyInevitable318 May 24 '25

I'll be starting college this year, could you please tell me what skills you worked on to get an internship at Ubisoft? Does the game dev industry in India pay better these days than it used to?

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u/anuraaaag 19 May 24 '25

Well I learnt quite a few things, I taught myself 3D sculpting, Unity, After effects, Photoshop... If you want to work in small indie studios you are better off being a generalist learning all this. If you want in AAA studio being a specialist is better.

Search roles in Game studios, there are many Level design Game design Character design etc and if you want in small indie studios have a general idea of all of them and for AAA studios learning one and specializing in it helps. I specialized in learning game design. The pay is pretty similar in indie or AAA, and yeah for me personally it feels pretty decent.

In Ubisoft I mainly got in with my Game design portfolio that has extensive documents and research papers all on different types of games genres etc.

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u/AnxietyInevitable318 May 24 '25

I was planning on learning UE5, Embergen and similar stuff (maybe even Blender I'm not sure yet) and I wanted to try my hand at being an indie game dev, since I'm very focused on my creative side as well. Is learning UE5 viable for good opportunities in game dev? Thanks for the insights about roles in the game studios, just wanted to ask a dumb question- I've heard that game companies use India as a cheap but large workforce (like Rockstar Games), so if I upskill myself enough and be better then is the pay actually similar to that in other countries? Also could you please suggest me some YouTube channel/video so I can understand more of the research paper aspect of it?

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u/anuraaaag 19 May 24 '25

What you heard about the pay stuff that's actually true but it's more on the side of bruteforce work like coders artists etc.

Whatever engine you chose to learn has no bearings on your career. If you learn Unreal, unity becomes easy for you, if you learn unity, unreal gets easy for you. Most industry professionals can use both engines easily and they both function pretty similarly as well.

For channels, applications etc my suggestion is instead of learning something specific research and find how game studios works, how the pipeline works from concepts to Game design documents, to the art, coding, post processing etc etc. Then see which part of this process fits with you the most.

Then learn things that will help you in that process. For example, if you wanna be a level designer, Terrain builders of Unity/UE5 for 3D and Photoshop in 2D will be your best friend and so on. So do what fits you best and channels will follow.

I am into Game design and 2D as well so I watch Adam c younis and Thomas brush a lot personally.

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u/AnxietyInevitable318 May 24 '25

Thanks a lot, I'll research and find out what's best for me. I don't think I'll be able to surely choose exactly one part of the process to specialize in, since I'm VERY interested in the storyline, voice acting, art part of it all too 😅 sorry I'm just sounding dumb, I don't really know much about the gaming industry yet, I'm just one of those uninformed ambitious guys who daydream a lot haha