I am just 13. Can anyone dare to take me in a commercial job.

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Hats off, BEST IDEA EVER. It would be good if work together sometime.
Here are some of my projects:
http://imgur.com/a/SCWgn#0
http://imgur.com/a/OTOTX#0

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Actually, if you lied you broke the legal agreement with that company so you breached the contract so they could take action if they decided to. Then in a few years when you apply for jobs you may have to admit to having had legal issues, or you lie about that & then risk getting caught by your new employer. Still, it’s your life & your risk, but having worked in high security industries & lesser industries where they still check stuff like that, it’s instant dismissal & possible legal action to lie in application forms & if you’re honest up front they applaud your honesty but then say they can’t employ you because of it.

It may be the internet so you can say anything, but it also means people can find anything. If they start turning up contradictory information about you they will err on the side of caution. Who will employ someone that signs a NDA if they know that person has previously lied when completing other legal agreements?

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You know what would have been a better way to go about this? Have your guardians create the account and sell the game for you rather than you try to bypass the system. You better hope Google does not catch on that you’re under-age.

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I would have done that, but by the time I realized that I had already paid. And as I said $25 is a big number in India

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If they catch on that you’re under-age, they’ll most likely suspend your account. You’ll be out the $25 then too. Not to mention I’m fairly certain you’ll be out any money from potential sales too. It’s a bit hard to really find any real concrete statements in the Google Merchant Help pages aside from the suspension part.

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In fairness my advice wasn’t to lie, simply to not bring it up. Entering a contract with false details, like lying about your age on an ap store form, is a bad idea. The other party can legally withhold payment, amongst other things.

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The brutal world :frowning:

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Anyways I still haven’t created a merchant account. And I think that the publisher account has a minimum age of 13 so I am safe now :slight_smile:

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Wait til you pay taxes (if you earn enough now you may still have to pay it despite being 13), then you’ll learn just how brutal it can be :stuck_out_tongue:

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Why you want to go commercial?

Unless you really want to earn at this age, I think it’s better not to be associated with commercial works and jobs(atleast not now I think).

I am also in same state as you, a teen from India, and I am using unity for about 2 yrs from now. I also thought about being commercial once, but I think it’s better to stay non-commercial. I currently create games as a Hobbyist (not Indie, “HOBBYIST”). Moreover, you don’t have to take stress of commercial works and you can work as you want, make your games free and let players enjoy it. After all, personally I find players comments more valuable than money.

Still, if you want to go commercial and sell your games then you will have to spend money first, like greenlight in steam, dev. registration in play store, etc. and look to lots of legal work there, from which I find better to stay away from.

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1- everyone wants to make a couple of bucks.
2- I’m currently helping people online through facebook. I think you can consider that as commercial. Anyways, there is a great amount of stress. So, I agree with you
3- I might recommend anyone to make zero-budget games and start with small markets such as: the Amazon app store. That way if you go on a big gamble with your own game (that you invested in), you lose only the money you made, not you personal money.

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They don’t have to know that.

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I would be honest and tell people you intend to work with that you are 13. There’s a lot of people out there with high expectations and short tempers, and it’s best for them to know up front that you’re young.

As for the US, I don’t know what the child labor laws are now, but a long time ago when I was age 10-13 I was working, and I think it’s a great idea for kids to be able to work part time. Kids want money and work experience, and - with some safety limitations - they should be able to get it. I think computer gaming is potentially a great field for kids with that aptitude and inclination, and especially kids from countries where wages are low, as it can be a way to break out.

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I think its great that you have the drive to want to do this. When I was 13, I didn’t have the internet, and people like me were just computer geeks that spent too much time in the basement.

At our company, we just hired a kid who started as an intern at 17. He got to be an intern because he wrote a few windows store apps and relentlessly pestered my boss for a job. My boss said “OK, we use mvc and sql server, and c#, learn some stuff about that and we’ll talk”. He went and did every tutorial on the asp.net site prepared a demo webapp and presented it to my boss. He’s 18 now and working as a full time programmer.

13 is obviously a little young, but you are taking the right steps and are to be congratulated. I would personally volunteer to mentor you, but I don’t have the time to do so at this time. Just keep going, keep learning, and keep asking people if you can help. Keep writing code and coming up with examples of your skill, and keep presenting those examples for others to see. People will take you seriously, but you have to make them believe that you should be taken seriously.

  1. What are your skills? Based on your idle engine, I’m guessing that you’re into coding.
  2. What type of game do you want to make and/or help make?
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Yeah I am programming for about a year now. Started with Action Script 3 (which I never understood) to Unity (JS) and then to C#.
2. I don’t have any serious idea. I do whatever I want to. Mostly I almost complete the game, but when it comes to art/design I get bored and leave it. I have successfully coded 4-5 small games by now :slight_smile:

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I would be happy too :). Contact me of you ever want. I’ll do the same :wink:

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Who would got to know actually. I can just change the details yo my mom’s dad’s one and it’s done. If someone caught I can just say that it was my mom’s/dad’s/brother’s. :slight_smile:

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You’re forgetting the audit trail that will show it was your details then your parents. If they wanted they could say it raised enough suspicion & you would have to legally prove your case which you obviously couldn’t do. Take it from someone that has seen a family member ruin a career plan based on 7 years of university to get multiple degrees & a masters & then not get the job that they’d been told they’d get - if you lie once on anything remotely legal you are screwed for life.

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I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if Google were to simply suspend the account and wait to verify whether it was legit or not when you request it be reinstated. Not to mention @tedthebug raises a valid point. Changing the details won’t completely hide anything as they will keep past records on the account and can simply check those.

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Fortunately that is a business specific ID with no specific person’s details. ;).