Sample requirements to break into the game industry

Original image by Toni Blay

For those interested to overcome video game programmer requirements, I previously wrote on working while still in school. Though game development is a tough field, and it takes more than just computer programming skills, even for student level jobs. Positions that will contribute to your “two years of experience”, and especially [...]

Breaking into a Video game Programming career

I had some thoughts on video game programming jobs, but an important question – “if every game studio required 2 years of experience, where would a new graduate get it?”, was not clearly answered. Ilya Grigorik followed up with a link to an interesting article by Matt Gilgenbach, a video game developer. There Matt talks [...]

Blog Predictions for 2007 – Blogs as Resume

In what appears to be a spin-off from the “5 things you didn’t know about me” meme that has been floating around the blog-o-sphere (and which I so far have managed to avoid), Andrew Wee has made some predictions on blogging for this new year, and invited others to participate. Here is my take:

Blogging will [...]