Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Greg Cook Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: What skills required for todays industry Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:46:15 +1300 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.tracient.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: Cheers Rikki, Yeah Mario was a yaroze person and ive spoken to him and i have a mate working for him, Im looking for coding, im currently a coder in my day job, and playing around with yaroze, xna etc.. c# is my language of choice though, and another option was a tools programmer. Could be a foot in the door to move onto something else. I'll take your advice of the 2 player demo on board, might be good to do an XNA demo of some kind. I guess ripping off an existing game isnt a good option ;) Rikki Prince wrote: > 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 > > > C