Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Scott Ward" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Jet Force G Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 22:49:08 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <81788l$d422@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <813bnb$2ce2@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <38370e5f.14870272@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: m292-mp1-cvx1a.hud.ntl.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Nick Ferguson wrote in message news:38370e5f.14870272@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > > I've been off the newsgroups the last month coz I moved down to > Cambridge to start work at Cyberlife - I only got my PC online today > I've been that busy. It's fun writing games for a living, though :) > > Nick "ex-Rare and rather wanky about it" F > Nick, It's good to hear that you got a job in the games industry, congratulations (he says, though extremely jealous). Now all I want to know is HOW did you get a job in the industry. I wouldn't mind a crack at this *being-paid-for-writing-games* business sometime in the future so I'm pretty interested in how people get their proverbial foot in the door. Are we talking academic qualifications, practical experience a-la Yaroze or perhaps it's a case of WHO you know, not WHAT you know....nudge, nudge, wink, wink..... :o) With the upmost respect, and I hope you don't take this the wrong way, I wouldn't have thought that your Yaroze projects were strong enough to warrant a company taking you on. Although, admittedly, my assumptions on what it takes to get in to the industry are all based on.....well, my imagination really. :o) Maybe you could enlighten me as to how to start on the path to games creation (and getting paid for it). Good Luck, Scott