Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Peter Dollochan" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Anyone entering the GDUK competition? Date: 15 Jun 1998 16:42:23 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <01bd21dc$b0d1c0a0$0e3963c3@default> References: <35818955.7815668@easynet.co.uk> <01bd1fb8$bd8fbfc0$973e63c3@default> <358199be.19884327@news.scea.sony.com> <01bd2011$3c39dd80$9d3963c3@default> <35828122.57115273@news.scea.sony.com> <3582e588.1330492@news.playstation.co.uk> <01bd208e$44cd6c00$d4e6abc3@default> <35845349.341047@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: host5-99-57-14.btinternet.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 ok then point taken :) However as a manager (not in games obviously) if someone puts something in a CV then it turns out they told a little porky that really annoys me and this feeling is not a personal quirk but you will find it goes for just about everybody. The game submitted will be a sort of CV so I would be telling that little porky wouldn't I and I wouldn't want to annoy myself now would I :) Pete. > What do you want a job in the industry as though ? If it's as a > programmer then you don't need the artistic skills as any decent games > company now has teams of dedicated artists and animators thereby > allowing us programmer types not to have to bother with that arty > stuff anymore ! My artist is a crap programmer and similarly I am a > crap artist, unless you are exceptionally talented you rarely get > someone who has both skills so if you are going for a programmers job > in a games company then they will want proof that you can program. Not > that you can draw. > >