Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Ben James Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Advice needed! Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 16:51:02 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 32 Message-ID: <35C87F66.BE4CA2D5@enterprise.net> References: <35C8656E.EC8288B0@nospam.easynet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: max04-206.enterprise.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) In my experience, games companies don't really care much for academic qualifications. It's ability they're looking for. I spent 3 months learning how to use the Yaroze and coded 3 games in that time. I made a video of them and sent that with my CV to one company which has since offered me a job writing Playstion games. If you're enthausiastic and really want to make good games, you shouldn't have any major problems! Phil Gooch wrote: > > Trying to decide what career path to take/attempt. > > I currently work in IT Support. I do a little bit of programming (VB, > Perl, Omnimark/SGML). Am bored at work. Have been teaching myself C over > the last 6 months. Got into the Yaroze about 3 months ago, though have > only started writing stuff for it in the last couple of weeks. > > I've got a place on a MSc in Multimedia, part time, 2 days a week. > Course is mainly Java, with Director, HTML, Javascript, Object-oriented > design, Interactive Systems design etc. I'm going to be working the > other 3 days. > > Trouble is, what I really want to do is games. I can't make up my mind > whether to do this MSs (which is 2 years long and could be out of date > by the time I finish it) or concentrate on the Yaroze and games > programming in general and try and get a job in the games industry. Or > should I try and do both? > > Anyone have any useful advice? > > Phil