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How fortunate we are to have you here with us to explain God and money using very tired cliches ! 
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Mike Rowe (of Dirty Jobs) has an excellent video about "following your passion": Don't Follow Your Passion - YouTube[^]
I also remember an article from the early 80s where the writer said that it is important to distinguish between what you think you want and what you really want. His example was that he thought he wanted to be a college president. He worked hard and achieved that goal. And hated every second of his achievement. Being honest with yourself can be really brutal.
I've also learned that you can become passionate about some things, while tolerating other aspects of that thing. Many software engineers are passionate about software, but not so much about bureaucracy. You live with one to enjoy the other and ultimately enjoy the fruits of your labor.
I will add that working with developers that have no passion for the craft can be very tedious, so say the least.
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A professional is, by definition, someone who does it for the money. On one hand, a person who chooses a career he will be happy in without examining the prospects of making a living in that career is being short-sighted. On the other hand, a person who chooses a career that he hates only because it has good prospects will be unhappy; it is very difficult to work 40 hours a week at something that you hate.
The early twenties are a time when it is permissible to make mistakes; if you discover that your chosen career is not to your liking, you can usually change careers with no serious penalty. However, you should be settled in a career by the time you reach 30.
(This does not mean that changing careers later on is impossible; it just means that it comes with much greater costs)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Find you Ikigai[^]
What you love
What you're good at
What the world needs
What you can be paid for
Marc
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I'm considering trying to create a game. I have no experience.
Is Unity the way to go? Are there other game design tools I should consider? Resources?
Thanks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I haven't given game developement nearly enough time.. too focused on my current never ending home project.... So I can't really give an informed answer...
At any rate I would advise to also have a look at the following alternative engines:
Xenko Game Engine | Home[^]
CRYENGINE | Crytek[^]
Me think you might love Xenko! 
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The mobile Hitman game for Android is done in Unity. What platform are you wanting to start off with - mobile, web, or PC games?
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When I researched this I found that Unity and Unreal were the 2 biggest engines and the biggest difference it came down to is that you can do C# in Unity but not in Unreal, it uses C, C++. That made the decision for me. I've been doing Unity for a little while now and it is very easy to get started on it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Thanks.. Did you see Dan's answer?[^]
Have you seen any issues I should be aware of?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: Did you see Dan's answer?[^]
I have not gotten into it at a level like that yet. I just do it for fun.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Where do I go to get Unity? Is it part of Visual Studio?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Awesome. Thanks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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So I'm thinking of recreating this game[^].
Any reason you can think of why Unity wouldn't work for this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin Marois wrote: Any reason you can think of why Unity wouldn't work for this?
Nope, in fact, this may be a head start for you: Unity - Tanks tutorial[^]
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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An acquaintance of mine does unity game dev professionally. He regularly rants about GC stalls screwing up his steady frame rates and about how badly mono performs. To minimize the GC pressure he says he has to avoid linq and foreach loops in favor of simpler constructs; and is eagerly awaiting the first stable version with MS's recently open sourced run time instead.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thanks.. Good info
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Back when they were barely known, Glassdoor.com was a great place to get a rundown on a companies. In the past they actually seemed vigilant in weeding out obviously fake positive HR reviews. However, I've noticed they've begun taking down negative reviews. The most egregious was a company I dealt with which suddenly has nothing but glowing reviews, all but two being written in the past two months, with ALL the negative reviews taken down.
Oh well, another fun web site bites the dust.
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Probably afraid of the sharks, I mean liars, errrr lawyers...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Way to insult all the sharks!
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Maybe sponsored by the company with the removed reviews
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Glassdoor.com is a website which upholds the highest standards of honesty and integrity to deliver the end user an honest portrayal of other employees' experiences at companies. Glassdoor does NOT remove bad reviews at the request of any company, only reviews which are found to be inappropriate or violate the terms of service are removed. Please reach out to Glassdoor directly if more clarification is needed.
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Do you enjoy being a sock puppet?
Glassdoor routinely removes bad reviews which don't violate their policy; in this specific case, they literally removed ALL the bad reviews and replaced them with nothing but positive reviews obviously written by HR.
What a company claims is worthless. What they actual do is everything.
(A few years back, Amazon was found to be manipulating book reviews at the behest of publishers. They also routinely leave in place reviews which blatantly violate their policy, even when reported. The result is that while Amazon reviews can be interesting, they aren't reliable.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Do you enjoy being a sock puppet?
I don't follow. There was no action item in OP's post to buy into, or any way to verify the claim or follow up. OP seemed to be hotdesking conspiracy theories not meeting any benchmarks for accuracy.
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