Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Matt Verran" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Codies talk at my uni Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:27:07 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 35 Message-ID: <86mi6u$qrp1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: "Matt Verran" NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.70.71.140 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 Some recruitment bods from Codemasters came to my uni yesterday, I couldn't go because I am on my placement year working away from the uni but my mate did go and here is his report: " I went to the presentation. I think they were mainly saying "Look, we want you to work for us when you leave, we're really good." It was a kind of recruitment talk really. Still, they had a question and answer thing at the end and that was more interesting. They said they were looking at bringing some Japanese games over here :) They also had a go at pirates, this guy asked if you'd still be able to copy ps2 games and what they thought of pirates, what a stupid thing to ask a game developer. Some other guy asked if they still had some of the old people working there and the guy said "You just want a free copy of Dizzy don't you?" :) He also told the guy that you can get it if you download a speccy emulator :D On the job related side of things they went on about how Codemasters only produce quality games, and Codemasters = Pure gameplay, and they only accept the very best of applicants. Then they said that programming knowledge wasn't really necessary, most programmers start out in the QA dept as testers, and you only really need to like solving problems and have an interest in games. We got free brochures and bookmarks too! " I though the part about emulation was interesting, The Codies have quite famously refused free distribution rights to their old 8-bit software. Oh and I think I would have asked how their new American division is going and what they think about Mike Tyson being the licence for Prince Naseem Boxing in the states (just to be controversial)...