Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Phil Gooch Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Advice needed! Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 17:17:21 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <35C88590.C86BA3BD@nospam.easynet.co.uk> References: <35C8656E.EC8288B0@nospam.easynet.co.uk> <35C87F66.BE4CA2D5@enterprise.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.131.140.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Ben James wrote: > 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! I'd have to write something as good as Psychon first! I suppose I'm wondering whether to hedge my bets and do the MSc in case I can't cut it as a games programmer, so at least I can get a job doing corporate Web sites, rather than being stuck writing crappy VB utilities. Well, I've got to decide pretty soon! Phil