Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Rikki Prince" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: What skills required for todays industry Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:32:16 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn-62-56-51-247.dslaccess.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.62 (MacIntel) Hi Greg, I seem to remember Mario from Sidhe being a Net Yaroze guy, so that might be a useful common topic to start on if applying for a job there! Are you looking for a programming job in games? Or design, testing, production or something else? I don't know so much about the latter few but for programming it's largely becoming a matter of focusing on an area. Ideally you will have a demo to showcase your talent, so combining those two games companies like to see a nicely polished demo of some element of games, such as physics, AI, advanced graphics techniques or gameplay. I think the days of expecting a full game are gone, but if you have a complete game to demo, all the better. It has to be fun though! The best advice I've heard is to make a game demo that is fun for 2 people to play: as soon as the person playing through the demos calls over their mate to give it a go and they move like it, you've then got 2 people in the company that would support your application. Cheers, Rikki On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:25:19 +0100, Greg Cook wrote: > So im thinking about a career change, im currently a technical team > leader for a MS Windows Mobile dev company, working in the logistics and > service industries. Lots of C#, sql, web etc.. > > Just wondering how one would jump into the gaming industry. Locally we > have companies like Sidhe, but just wondering if anyone in the industry > could provide some pointers around the skills required now days :) > > Cheers > greg -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/