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- From: mcginle@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (JAMES MCGINLEY)
- Subject: Getting A Job Game Programming
- Reply-To: mcginle@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (JAMES MCGINLEY)
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:17:12 GMT
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- I assume the following questions have been asked hundreds of times but I'm new
- to this group. Anyways, bear with me while I ask :
- 1. Has someone compiled a list of addresses of companies that make games?
- If you could send it to me - or post it - I would appreciate it.
- 2. What are the chances of getting hired at these companies?
- 3. What is the standard background of most game programmers (i.e. Do you
- need a computer science degree? Do you need an art background?
- Are the big name programmers today the same people that started out
- programming commercial Atari games?)
- 4. Do you need to have a shareware game to get looked at?
- 5. Are there any computer game making companies in Canada?
- 6. Do I have a hope in hell of getting into the video game industry?
-
- Any information at all on anything (I'll even take unsubstantiated opinions)
- would be fantastique. I (along with everybody else here I presume) would
- love a job programming computer games.
-
- Thanks a million,
- Jim 'I'm doomed to work at a bank' McGinley
-
- P.S. Thanks for all the help everyone gave me about redefining characters!
-