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I don't know if I'm too young to decide this stuff, but basically I was thinking about where I should live in the future.
I hope to go to university in Canada and learn video game designing and software development. After graduating I was thinking of starting my own game company. Where should I start my business and live?
I was thinking of Brazil, for two reasons. First, The Brazilian gaming market is one of the largest in S America, so starting a game company there could be lucrative. And second reason: I lived in Brazil for seven years, and so I'm pretty fluent in Portuguese.
Would Brazil (Sao Paulo specifically) be a better place to start such a company than Canada?
Why don't you spend more time at a Brazilian Portuguese forum about video games rather than post here at C-D? I am sure that having spent half of your life in Brazil, being fluent in Portuguese and being interested in video games, that you would know better. The only answers from a forum like this (majority of whom spent no or less time in Brazil than you, speak less Portuguese than you and know less about Brazilian video games than you, with none knowing you personally) is why not or why do you need to decide now.
Why don't you spend more time at a Brazilian Portuguese forum about video games rather than post here at C-D? I am sure that having spent half of your life in Brazil, being fluent in Portuguese and being interested in video games, that you would know better. The only answers from a forum like this (majority of whom spent no or less time in Brazil than you, speak less Portuguese than you and know less about Brazilian video games than you, with none knowing you personally) is why not or why do you need to decide now.
This forum is useless for locations outside of western Europe and the major English speaking countries. It's evident in the fact that at least half the topics in the foreign sections have to do with race and women in x country ; you know, low information turd balls
Geez cut the kid some slack. Listen, like another poster said as of right now its a little too early to determine whether or not it will be a good move or not because in all reality, we don't know where Brazil or Canada will be by in 2020. Furthermore the gaming industry is constantly evolving. So job requirements are morphing every year. Although Brazilians have a huge gaming culture, that comes at a high cost. Due to taxes they are one of the countries that have to pay the most for importation of gaming systems. For that reason, maybe there will be an opportunity to produce Brazilian made gaming systems that you could sell them at a cheaper price. However, all of this is speculation and you really won't know until you finish your studies and start you job hunt. Which is a long way off. Being that your 14 your probably in 8th grade the best way you can prepare for that is if you start doing the following:
Start preparing for college so that you can get into a good program to study game design.
A. I highly recommend you take a practice ACT or SAT test this summer so you can familiarize yourself with the test. Do this every summer until your 11th grade year when you should take the final.
B. Take AP courses while your in high school so that you can start prepare for college.
C. Start looking at schools that offer game design courses. A buddy of mine just finished at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) in Georgia and he actually studied game design.
It is hard to predict the future of Brazil. It has a lot of potential in every way, but I am not so sure they will be doing much better than today 5 years from now. A lot depends on the decision they take these days.
One question is, are you even allowed to move there regarding citizenship in the first place? I am sure a lot of people would like to live there, but can't.
And will you be able to afford to live there? SP and Rio are already very expensive cities today, and prices will likely not go down, but further up in the future.
I hate video games, so I don't how popular they are or will be in Brazil
Be that as it may, I would practice my Portuguese during the next 5 years or so and register on a Brazilian message board to stay up to date, get to know people who might help you etc.
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; you know, low information turd balls
