Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Alan Yuen Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.profile Subject: its time i said hello Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:25:40 +0000 Organization: . Lines: 40 Message-ID: Reply-To: alan@argonaut.com NNTP-Posting-Host: intgate.argonaut.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 trialware Hi all you. Just thought I should make a posty after many years. Had one of these strange matt black playstation thingy doberries around summer 1997. Didn't buy many games for it, the ones that I did managed was Tekken 3 when it was Japanese imports and Grand Tourismo when it was Japanese imports too. The learning curve to program it was really high, but I managed to do small things, never did managed to program a whole game in the end. I am also class of 1997/8 of Middlesex Uni, with the likes of Robert Swan, James Tait and Olley Read. When I graduated from Middlesex I had the bright idea to goto a certain uni that tried to offer "software engineering and computer games". Didn't really learn much there, apart from one very important lesson, which was teamwork. For further insight on team work: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/business/features/screwup/default.asp I frequent the ECTS Sony parties, I can be found in the sony's news pages on ECTS of 1999. DEnnis and the crew will know me. At presant I am working for Argonaut Software in London as a programmer. Things I should say to people that want to work in the games industry that they should work hard with diligence in thier skills, keep the faith and believe. You have to be a more than just programmer, you need to be an artist at what you do. And I don't mean an artist by drawing visuals. Robert Swan can tell you all about that too. And when you do decide to go for it, don't forget to work on you presentation skills and show what you have done in a way, which is pleasing and has flow. Hint: most games companies will have video players or CD drives. Alan Disclamier: My views are mine and not my company's (Argonaut) views and what I say is not as a represetive of my company's (Argonaut) either and has no relation to my company(Argonaut). Alan Disclamier: My views are mine and not my company's (Argonaut) views and what I say is not as a represetive of my company's (Argonaut) either and has no relation to my company(Argonaut).