Choices in preferable order...
1) Go back to school, get your Bachelors Degree in Computer Science.
2) Go back to school, take game development - programming at one of those I.T. schools.
3) Teach yourself, if very good and extremely lucky and beat out the interview competition, you'll get the job.
But with option 2 and 3, what happens when you get too old and get squeezed out of the industry. Right now you're probably around 20? So those you'll be working with will be around ages 22 to about 32. But then once you're pushed out, which McDonalds will you be working for? Because you don't have the piece of paper. You most likely won't be allowed in to do program in other industries. They is a stigma of game vs application (non-game).
By the way, you mentioned Engineer/game programmer. You need a four year degree to be an Engineer, otherwise you're just a programmer, with out a degree. But without the degree you'll have holes in your education! The shortest path is not necessarily the best path!
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