A designer at Rare, "During my years at Polytechnic (studying to be an accountant) I finally decided that my future didn't lie in bookkeeping and desperately wanted to get involved in the video game industry in some way. Much to my parents' astonishment, I left Poly. I then sent out my CV to many software houses explaining who I was and what I ( Read more... )

Something to give my mind something to chew on, a Humana Games for Health asking for game designs, great ( Read more... )

Very tempted to write about how miserable it was to send in the test doc back so quickly, so I'll write about something else so it doesn't end up all doom and gloomy ( Read more... )

"... but at least I can say this -- I applied as far as Bulgaria ( Read more... )

My latest 3 job applications go out to Sofia in Bulgaria, Singapore of... Singapore?, and Dusseldorf of Germany. Bulgaria, huh ( Read more... )

There was this book I read, a fictional tale about a town with a plague. There was an author there who constantly tried to create the most unbelievably awesome sentence to start his novel off, but throughout the (actual) book, he constantly revises that one sentence to the point of eventually dying (and here I start making stuff up as I forgot how ( Read more... )

It's a bit odd how I start to furiously doubt I'm up for the chops when I get a return call back for a phone interview. When I'm sending the applications out, I always have this attitude that this would be something I would be capable of doing ( Read more... )

Been away from my most favorite game, Dwarf Fortress, for far too long it seems. The stuff that is possible...

"For fun, may i suggest dwarven drop pods? Hatches with dwarves stationed over them , hooked up to levers. Beneath is a kitten. Kitten catches dwarf, breaks the fall."

One of my more colorful applications... just out of curious to see if they would respond to such an email ( Read more... )

One month ago I said I would be hard at work programming, no such work took place! Been working hard instead on level design, which I first thought was work for artistic people who knew about architecture and could make realistic looking things. I'll admit I'm still no good at any of those things, but what I love to do is invent, and so I feel ( Read more... )