Anyone work in the games industry?

In many cases it's a mixture of the courses and the people that take them thats the problem.

The biggest gaming geeks don't always make the best games makers. Some of the guys I went to Uni with, whilst knowing loads about games and often having the biggest mouths, didn't always have the modelling/texturing skills to get a job in the industry. This was on the art side, I'm sure things were very similar for the programmers.

If you're a good programmer, you will get a job fairly quickly, if you're a talented artist you'll not find things too hard either, but both of these are not as common as they should be. Ubisoft are hiring at the moment, all over the world, just the one UK office though, Newcastle isn't all that bad ;)
 
Herminator said:
In many cases it's a mixture of the courses and the people that take them thats the problem.

The biggest gaming geeks don't always make the best games makers. Some of the guys I went to Uni with, whilst knowing loads about games and often having the biggest mouths, didn't always have the modelling/texturing skills to get a job in the industry. This was on the art side, I'm sure things were very similar for the programmers.

If you're a good programmer, you will get a job fairly quickly, if you're a talented artist you'll not find things too hard either, but both of these are not as common as they should be. Ubisoft are hiring at the moment, all over the world, just the one UK office though, Newcastle isn't all that bad ;)
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same as any computing course, people think because they built their own of they are going to land a 30k a year it job
 
Actually I live a few hundred metres from the EA office in Guildford... can practically see it from my window (there is one small office building in the way though). Will have to go in and steal some secrets
 
Music side of the gaming industry hopefully, got one or two jobs cropping up at the moment in terms of gaming.
 
I don't work directly in the games industry but I work with companies in the games industry. I work for a web design agency and we do a lot of work with EA, and have worked in the past with the likes of Nintendo, Eidos, Activision and a fair few others.
 
myself and bro want to eventually get enough industry (both developer and business) experience to start up our own games company (small at first like xbox arcade) and build our way up.

Cant help but feel the games industry has so much untapped potential in ways of distributing, designing and profiting from games. I could go on a 3 hour lecturethon on how it could be improved.
 
codec said:
Cant help but feel the games industry has so much untapped potential in ways of distributing, designing and profiting from games. I could go on a 3 hour lecturethon on how it could be improved.
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Until DLC is really pushed - which it will be - little companies are struggling. Certainly with the cost of publishing on XBox Live. Sony are a little less stringent when it comes to taking money I believe.
 
NokkonWud said:
Until DLC is really pushed - which it will be - little companies are struggling. Certainly with the cost of publishing on XBox Live. Sony are a little less stringent when it comes to taking money I believe.
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I think the XNA stuff coming through may help some smaller dev teams get noticed and maybe signed up, I think this is a good move by Microsoft as it may bring some talent to the forefront that otherwise would stay unoticed. PSN is less strict on what you can and cannot do with no size limits, pricing etc.

Welcome back to the internet!:D
 
I'd love to, I've had opportunities to but turned them down.

I've had offers for interviews for Creative Assembly (Rome: Total War) as a Artist and EA as a Tester.

I bottled the Creative Assembly interview and the EA QA Tester job was shockingly bad pay and hours.
Although I have artistic qualities, I haven't used them properly since A-Level...I might have blagged it but it would have been a steeeeeep learning curve. :p

I now work in a school working with Active Directory, GPOs and MSIs........I have no regrets..../cry
 
Yup I work in the games industry, would love to say what I am working on and I think I am allowed too now but i would prefer to be on the safe side and keep my mouth shut LOL.

I work for Rebellion, at their liverpool studios. Games Programmer - AI

yeah nintenjo is an artist a damn good one too, he use to work for Rebellion.
 
I just had a thought which could benefit me at work. Does anyone here work, know or influence anyone in the digital side of marketing for any gaming industry related companies?

Contacts would be appreciated ;)
 
considered applying to the uni games design degree thingy but then looked at myself honestly and thought I didn't have the ability to even get close to the required standard, let alone excell
 
NokkonWud said:
Get me a job there and I will. :D *heavy hint*.
Still modelling for my portfolio, making up for all the stuff I lost in a HDD death :(.
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I'm guessing you're still after an enviroment artist job?
Nothing going at the moment, mostly looking for programmers.... anyone want to live in "sunny" Newcastle?

da_mic, what do you enjoy doing? how easy to pick up computing skills? it's not always the people you think that can excell.
 
Herminator said:
I'm guessing you're still after an enviroment artist job?
Nothing going at the moment, mostly looking for programmers.... anyone want to live in "sunny" Newcastle?

da_mic, what do you enjoy doing? how easy to pick up computing skills? it's not always the people you think that can excell.
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Hehe, cheers for the interest shown but I ended up doing Business and IT Management degree. A few of my mates are doing Games Design and the particular course they are doing looks like a mickey mouse one as opposed to one that is worthwhile

Shame as a job in Newcastle would have been perfect:)
 
Herminator said:
I'm guessing you're still after an enviroment artist job?
Nothing going at the moment, mostly looking for programmers.... anyone want to live in "sunny" Newcastle?
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Anything but characters really.
Asset design would be my preferred option, then environments, then vehicles. :)
 
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