Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!macsuppor From: macsuppor@a1.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Advice needed! Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:13:28 +0100 Organization: Debri Productions Lines: 73 Message-ID: <1ddcm3v.spxugm8k63oqN@a1-88-104.a1.nl> References: <35C8656E.EC8288B0@nospam.easynet.co.uk> <6qap8q$7vo10@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: a1-88-104.a1.nl X-Newsreader: MacSOUP 2.3 (unregistered) Nick Ferguson wrote: > at the moment I see my university work as *interfering* with what I'm > really interested in (Yaroze/games stuff). Bugger. Same here! My school is not aimed enough at games and I got the impression that without school I could get faster and better in the games industry. I don't want anymore HTML and f***** MultiMedia!!!!!! I want the real thing; GAMES!!! > I guess the one thing I have going is that I'm dead keen. I also > *do* actually know a shedload about games and game design plus I can > articulate vaguely intelligently about them. Dead keen??? In Holland that would sound a little arogant. I must admit that you have a great nolidge on games and stuff, but you are overdoing your own convidence I think.. > If you get to theinterview stage, I suspect that even > someone like me could have a good chance! Maybe, but first get to that stage!! > I'd like to think that the industry has a place for someone like > me - I suspect I'll never get good enough to be a great programmer, > although that sure as hell won't stop me from trying! Think what you like but I do think you should be carefull with your... overwelming selfesteem. I'm not a programmer either, but thats not the job I'm looking for. And I think (and hope) that making up your mind on what job you realy want is a big help. > I'm also not much > of an artist or musician either. So, what *am* I good for? Good point! I can do graphics, but thats not what I realy realy want... > I'm rather hoping that there's a place for me as a co-ordinator. It's > not a matter of being in charge, but just making sure everything ties > together. That's what I'd like. Me too, but these kind of jobs are merely taken by employers that have years of experiance. I want to become a gamesdesigner, but 9 out of 10 gamesdesigners have been a coder or a graphics artist in the industry for years. > I imagine being a games journo for a > decent mag and getting all the benefits of working in the industry > (without having to shell out for them) would be good, too :-) If you want to be a games-journalist (and I do think you would be a great one), try EDGE. Thats the only magazine thats worth working for I think. My impression on games journalists are that they are the mischief wannabies.. > At the end > of the day, if I could work on a game as awesome and important as (say) > Rare's Goldeneye or Street Fighter II and know I'd had significant > creative input and was significantly responsible for the whole thing > coming about, I'd die happy... Your smart-talk should get you a fine job ;-) > Erp! That was all a bit private. Oh, what the heck... think of this > as a bonus diary entry And I like your sense of humor... Cheers DEnnis..