What's terrible you ask. All the good gaming related jobs in the United States are based in California. EA Games, Blizzard, SquareEnix. I'm pissed. I was planning to go in as a playtester if I could, but its just too far away from my fiancee who lives all the way in Minnesota...and the whole point of going to the States was for us to be together after all.
This means that my dreams of working in a Video/Computer Game company have to be put on hold until maybe 2-3 years from now. Still sulking. This can only mean one thing...I need to play Final Fantasy XII to ease my tensions.
Seriously though, have you guys ever really wanted to do something like this? There's loads of opportunities in California as playtesters. Its like the jobs those guys in the movie "Grandma's Boy" had. Its the basic entry level position to go into the gaming industry. From the you go on to become designers, producers etc. etc.
Of course since I can't program for shit I will not be taking that path. Anyway just thought I'd post up this link to a resource site for careers in game development, people like Warlock, Siriuz and Arc should definately check this one out. Its:
http://www.igda.org/breakingin/
Now back to skulking around cursing my bad luck. Not one development company in Minnesota. |
At 7:00 PM,
Actually I've already thought of this for a long time. In fact, I do seriously intend to try out this video game career thing. Planning to check out the states after I graduate. Hopefully that'll be around next year. Heh!