Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!tjs From: tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Agencies... Date: 3 Sep 1998 01:50:41 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <35EB7D9F.7D37@mundivia.es> <35ED8DB0.51A3@writeme.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: longford.cs.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) On 03 Sep 1998 10:54:32 +1000, Toby Hutton wrote: >tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant) writes: >I know of at least 5 Australian members (including myself), 4 in >Melbourne and 1 in Sydney. There must be more though. Really? Apart from you, I haven't spoken to any Melbourne based Yaroze members. >I work full time as a software developer now and will be thinking >about moving on to a new job in a year or so. I know there aren't >many game developers in Australia and they tend to keep a low profile >(except for Beam/Melbourne House) but I think it will be possible to >get a non-PC games programming job when I want to, locally. Yep; Beam are about the only largish games company in Melbourne. Up until recently, however, they had a pretty low profile, and reports from people who've worked there suggest that they treat their employees badly. >I don't know, I think there's plenty of opportunity wherever you look >(here or O.S.) if you obviously have talent. Agreed. I could get a good job in Melbourne, but the liklihood is that it would be doing something other than games programming. This, coupled with the fact that England seems to produce many more quality games than Australia does, and the fact that I have a desire to travel anyway leads me to the conclusion that my plan is not a bad one. Ideally I'd like to start up my own company, but I acknowledge that that's a really difficult thing to do, and that, given my lack of business accumen, I'd be likely to go under really quickly. Toby.