Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Phil Gooch Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Advice needed! Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 13:58:41 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 27 Message-ID: <35C9A881.63C38AE0@nospam.easynet.co.uk> References: <35C8656E.EC8288B0@nospam.easynet.co.uk> <35C8C7C6.567A@mdx.ac.uk> 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) Peter Passmore wrote: > snip > So my advice is work on the portfolio, if you want to take the odd > module here and there it's probably a good idea, in your case you could > probably get to the same job destinations as the MSc would provide under > your own steam (especially in two years!), but you need to have time to > develop your game work. One observation that strikes me though is that > people can get much further if they collaborate as I think was shown by > the short course. It's much harder to do virtually, than meeting people > in the flesh, but the Yaroze setup (and DEnnis!) try to encourage this. > > Peter. Thanks for the advice Peter. This is pretty much what I was thinking - concentrate on the game development and take the odd course/module as and when. Well, I'll let everyone know when I've made a final decision! Phil