CONFLICT: The two body problem rears it's ugly head.
A technical recruiter contacted me for a possible job at a game company that is among my most revered. 400 miles away from where I want to be. It breaks my heart.
Of course I haven't yet heard back from my dream job and I doubt I will. A couple weeks back Sparkplay Media put up a job on GameSutra about a content designer. Basically designing and scripting quests for their fantastic looking MMO. I spent hours crafting a perfect cover letter and with a bunch of my friends and colleagues tweaking my already polished resume. Sadly no word, very dissapointing, but I still hold out some hope for that one.
That's my dream job but I'm still preparing for GDC, still applying for jobs. And I got a very nice technical recruiter looking into jobs for me in the Bay Area (It'd really break my heart to have to be far away from my fiance). We'll see. Got more compiler work to do. Working on my Android game and a personal project game that I had to blow the dust off last night.
Today's Advice: Persistence, Persistence, Persistence. That and check out Sparkplay media, their game looks bad ass.
Char sheet update: +8 experience for natural 20 roll of (Recruiter finding resume online) check. Recovered Hp Damage. Armor change: Camos and sarcastic t-shirt. Weapon: GDB (Blasting away bugs like no other).
Current skills in use: Blogging (+2), programming (+7 'Bonus for GDB and temporary from professor help')
EXP: 1034/3000
Armor: Camo and sarcastic shirt
HP: 6/6
Showing posts with label Job Hunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Job Hunting. Show all posts
Friday, January 16, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Update: Well today is another day chock full of work. I was inspired to write this this because my partner and I were forced into writing a for loop. A for loop whose initializer takes up 4 lines and has to iterate over 3 lists at once. As for games I've put up a lot more effort this last night.
Todays Tip to break into the industry: Make games, then put it on your resume. Any game will do! Especially ones you can demo. Peace - Chris Lee
Todays Tip to break into the industry: Make games, then put it on your resume. Any game will do! Especially ones you can demo. Peace - Chris Lee
Monday, January 12, 2009
So here's my debut game review and some rants on the current state of my epic quest.
First off, a game everyone should play Planescape Torment:
Planescape Torment is a game that's like reading a life changing fantastic fantasy novel. Now I've lost about half of you, but the rest of you I'm sure have an anime eyebrow in the air that can only be described as "Go on".
Now for context I'll give an example. There are plenty of people who will understand this, playing Planescape Torment is as life changing and as important as reading Dune or Ender's Game. Yes it's that good.
The game revolves around a deadish guy called only "The Nameless One". You don't remember anything about your past, you look like a corpse, and whenever you die, you wake up a little while later. The game revolves around you going around figuring out what you were doing in the past several hundred years along with meeting some friends of a more recent past life.
You know when you've closed a book and you hold back tears. It's the last of a series and you've felt like you've just lost a friend? This game's dialogue, storyline, and cast of characters is just that good. And the best part is the scope. You can play the game ten times and not see or meet everyone. All things aside you can usually choose to be the most moral champion, or the most vile bastard, there's just so much to see you can never get it all in one play through. Played a in a world within worlds connected to other worlds randomly where faith and belief make reality. I'm almost afraid to give away all the "Oh man that's AWESOME" moments in fear it'll ruin the experience even a tiny bit you'll just have to trust me and go play it.
First off, a game everyone should play Planescape Torment:
Planescape Torment is a game that's like reading a life changing fantastic fantasy novel. Now I've lost about half of you, but the rest of you I'm sure have an anime eyebrow in the air that can only be described as "Go on".
Now for context I'll give an example. There are plenty of people who will understand this, playing Planescape Torment is as life changing and as important as reading Dune or Ender's Game. Yes it's that good.
The game revolves around a deadish guy called only "The Nameless One". You don't remember anything about your past, you look like a corpse, and whenever you die, you wake up a little while later. The game revolves around you going around figuring out what you were doing in the past several hundred years along with meeting some friends of a more recent past life.
You know when you've closed a book and you hold back tears. It's the last of a series and you've felt like you've just lost a friend? This game's dialogue, storyline, and cast of characters is just that good. And the best part is the scope. You can play the game ten times and not see or meet everyone. All things aside you can usually choose to be the most moral champion, or the most vile bastard, there's just so much to see you can never get it all in one play through. Played a in a world within worlds connected to other worlds randomly where faith and belief make reality. I'm almost afraid to give away all the "Oh man that's AWESOME" moments in fear it'll ruin the experience even a tiny bit you'll just have to trust me and go play it.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with but a single step.
So my name is Chris Lee and this Blog will cover my thoughts on whatever I feel like writing. Though mostly it will contain reviews on games that I'm playing, updates on games that I am making, and the main event will be chronicling my journey to getting a paying job in the video game industry(Or alternatively a paying job as a programmer as a lead in to finding work as a game programmer).
History: I always knew I loved games but before my programming days I was more of a writer. The most rewarding thing in the world is making a room full of people laugh, and I loved to do it. But I had a technical yearning in me as well. With a bunch of nerds who did nothing but play D&D and video games with me it was inevitable that I become obsessed with computers. Long story short, I've loved just about everything on the internet, and on the gaming scene since about the 4th grade. I loved Ultima Online despite the fact that I really, really sucked at it, and I obsessively played just about every RPG to come my way my whole life. On with the blog!
So my name is Chris Lee and this Blog will cover my thoughts on whatever I feel like writing. Though mostly it will contain reviews on games that I'm playing, updates on games that I am making, and the main event will be chronicling my journey to getting a paying job in the video game industry(Or alternatively a paying job as a programmer as a lead in to finding work as a game programmer).
History: I always knew I loved games but before my programming days I was more of a writer. The most rewarding thing in the world is making a room full of people laugh, and I loved to do it. But I had a technical yearning in me as well. With a bunch of nerds who did nothing but play D&D and video games with me it was inevitable that I become obsessed with computers. Long story short, I've loved just about everything on the internet, and on the gaming scene since about the 4th grade. I loved Ultima Online despite the fact that I really, really sucked at it, and I obsessively played just about every RPG to come my way my whole life. On with the blog!
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