Family discouraging you from making games

What to do when your own family discourages you from making games?

Focusing on the skills you're learning might help persuade people it's worthwhile. First of all, the games industry is even bigger than the film industry now, so there really are good career opportunities in video games. But even if you don't go in to games, a tool like Construct helps teach you real computing skills. The event system includes concepts like variables, conditions, functions, loops, data structures like arrays, and so on, all of which are real computer science concepts. If you then start trying out coding with JavaScript and/or TypeScript, you are then directly learning a real-world professional programming language that you could literally get a job working with, even if not in the gaming world. So think of it like an educational tool!

What are their arguments against you making games? Is it born from ignorance, and will they listen to you in return? Are they passing their own fears onto you? Are they looking for validation of their own life choices and worldview by getting you to make the same choices?

Will you be OK without their encouragement? Will you be happier making games, knowing they may never understand or support you, or never making another game but having their support?

Well i have experienced the same thing with my parents.

Well i have experienced the same thing with my parents.

that's so frustrating. Have they given any specific reasons why they think that way?

They just see it as a hobby, not a real career. They keep pushing me towards more "stable" jobs like accounting or engineering. It's like they don't get how passionate I am about this.

Maybe you could try to find a middle ground? Like working a more traditional job while developing games on the side until you can show them some concrete success? or even taking a course or joining a community of game developers.

Your parents may be onto something.

If your goal is to not get a job and just make and sell games to make a living then I’d see that as uncertain future too. And that’s me only knowing you have passion for game development. Your parents are closer to the situation and probably have better advice than strangers online.

However, I doubt they’d be opposed to you working for a game development company and earning a living that way.

Either way as long as you’re living at home or financially dependent on your parents then they will try to steer you toward a path where they see you making a stable living and being independent.

It never hurts to have a different stable job and do game development on the side till you’re at the point where you find it viable to make a living off of it. I mean whatever you do your goal should be to be able to live off what you make.