My name is Edward Reilly and I am currently a student at Full Sail University in the Game Design BS program. I spent 5 ½ years in the Army, four on active duty, getting out in 2010. Before starting at FS in January of 2013 I spent a lot of time bouncing from different jobs ultimately finding myself on a fishing boat in Alaska. I learned about Full Sail and researched Game Design. Learning more about it I realized I could take my hobby/borderline obsession with playing video games and turn it into something more.
In my class at Full Sail we were asked the question, "Why be a designer?" Being a student who is striving to get into this industry I have wanted to start posting here on Gamasutra and thought I would share my answer with the community.
