On: Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men

[guard-of-terra]

Why don't they network a bit and create their own design shop? Given that they're already all in one place.

[yen223 → guard-of-terra]

Because that requires capital, and no one is going to fund interns, skilled though they may be.

[guard-of-terra → yen223]

In time of the internets I can't imagine a design shop hard to bootstrap. On internet nobody knows you're an intern.

[mimiflynn → guard-of-terra]

They have to build out a real world portfolio to be able to get clients on their own... and that will be created through real experience, not just school work. So, being an intern makes sense, but they should make a living wage.