So You Want to Work in the Video Game Industry
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consolitis
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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Mar 2011 23:41    Post subject: So You Want to Work in the Video Game Industry


That is all


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"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"

~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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ixigia
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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Mar 2011 23:47    Post subject:
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Epsilon
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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Mar 2011 23:50    Post subject:
Very true, this should be shown to all teenagers who wants to work in the industry.
If you're not in the core of the industry, and are one of a few select and lucky elite, it's far more glorious and profitable making cms software for dentists.
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xDBS




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PostPosted: Tue, 15th Mar 2011 23:55    Post subject:
True story.


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PostPosted: Wed, 16th Mar 2011 00:01    Post subject:
Sad but true. Wasn't the best thing that gaming became mainstream.


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Sephariel




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PostPosted: Wed, 16th Mar 2011 00:55    Post subject:
To think I considered this career path after high school, thank god I trusted my instinct.
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Yuri




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PostPosted: Wed, 16th Mar 2011 04:51    Post subject:
Sephariel wrote:
To think I considered this career path after high school, thank god I trusted my instinct.


What are you doing now?



1 and 2 are still amazing.
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tainted4ever
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PostPosted: Wed, 16th Mar 2011 05:27    Post subject:
Epsilon wrote:
Very true, this should be shown to all teenagers who wants to work in the industry.
If you're not in the core of the industry, and are one of a few select and lucky elite, it's far more glorious and profitable making cms software for dentists.


Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Very Happy

More on topic: I live in Irvine, home of Blizzard. They actively recruit on our campus, and I've used to work for a couple of game publishers, many of whom had ex-Blizzard employees. The impression I got is the game development industry is worse than the worst Indian churn-and-burn software factory. The Ex-Blizzard employees always had stories about how they would only hire a bunch of people for 6-12 months to work on certain parts of the game, and then get rid of them after the game was done, as if they were trash. True, Blizzard maintains a strong core of talented artists, designers, executives and more (which accounts for their success), but the rest of the company they treat as disposable human capital. I got similar impressions with other game devs studios I worked with. If anything, it was worse because I got to witness the long hours and extreme stress they worked under. 80 hour work-week is an understatement, and they all made under $55k (which for a talented software developer is a joke. Many places offer undergrads starting salaries at $65k straight out of college...).

Like I said, I was on the publishing side. I was simply a contractor so I worked my own hours and was immune from layoffs. I always had more business lined up and wasn't worried if the game publishing work dried up. So I had a pretty relaxed experience in the industry. The publisher I worked a lot at also seemed pretty relaxed. Very little happened, we just handled business logistics and bullied the devs and got rich off their hard work. Pure and simple. So if you're looking to get into the biz, my limited experience says get into publishing.

But hey, then again, I don't really have that much experience with industry. So take all that I say with a grain of salt.
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Sephariel




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PostPosted: Wed, 16th Mar 2011 09:30    Post subject:
yuri999 wrote:
Sephariel wrote:
To think I considered this career path after high school, thank god I trusted my instinct.


What are you doing now?



Your mom. Wink
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Yuri




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PostPosted: Wed, 16th Mar 2011 10:19    Post subject:
Sephariel wrote:
yuri999 wrote:
Sephariel wrote:
To think I considered this career path after high school, thank god I trusted my instinct.


What are you doing now?



Your mom. Wink


I didn't ask who, I asked what. Big difference. And I asked because I myself am still considering which line I should go into.



1 and 2 are still amazing.
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PostPosted: Wed, 16th Mar 2011 10:33    Post subject:
Nice. Smile
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vurt




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PostPosted: Wed, 16th Mar 2011 12:20    Post subject:
A tad bit too cynical, even though much or most of it is very true, but nothing we didn't know already.

Kids might need to see it, and hopefully not all of them will stay away from the gaming industry even though it can be shit.. I do like games, afterall Wink
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