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- Subject: Re: Getting A Job Game Programming
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.163827.29530@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:38:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.131956.10514@nuscc.nus.sg> isc10144@nusunix1.nus.sg
- (CHAN NICODEMUS) writes:
- > JAMES MCGINLEY (mcginle@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca) wrote:
- > : 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!
- >
- > I think that I quite agree with him. But what is the competition and
- > marketableness of people like us? I'm sure there are a lot of people
- > out there looking for these type of jobs.
- >
- >
- >
- > Nico.
- > Department of Information Systems and Computer Science,
- > National University of Singapore.
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- gad! don't i *WISH* i could get a job doing what i would love!!
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