James has been working as a programmer in the video games industry for more than 11 years.
He currently works for one of the major console manufacturers and gets to mess around with some pretty cool stuff. It goes without saying that James is in a sort of perfect "geek dream" and would appreciate it if you would stop trying to wake him up.
Posted by James Steele on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:30:00 EDT in
James goes through the lessons that he has learned in applying for programming jobs in the games industry. Here, he goes over obvious and some perhaps not so obvious lessons that he has learned over the course of many job applications in the last decade.
C'mon folks, be a bit more involved with your kids. Video games are not your babysitter As the father of two small children, I'm not just getting on my high horse about this. But while I feel that the parents share some of the blame for this little mishap I ...
Even correcting mis-information about technical issues is far from straight forward. A lot of stuff is covered by NDA's and even if you don't give any details, just saying it doesn't work that way can give a lot away. Not only that, it won't end there. People will ask How ...
Gustavo, I have a little problem regarding the Data Declared Purely section. Ever since the PS2 days, I've been having my SIMD classes encapsulated as a class with no issues. I wrote a quick and dirty test for Intel SSE under Visual Studio using a Vec3 class, and didn't find ...
The problem with putting together a code portfolio, is that typically the stuff you do over a period of time in the games industry is owned by your employer. I don't think anybody is going to give you permission to use that or hand it out to find work elsewhere ...
I agree with the complicated legal issues, and nobody wants a cadre of legal eagles set on them. But not everybody is trying to make a AAA title in their spare time that will take resources away from work. I'm not saying that it happens, as I remember when the ...
Interesting so see the you should be thankful you're in the games industry comment. It's rather unfortunate that it's coming from somebody who is not even in the games industry, as it's typically the stick used by irresponsible management to justify crunch built-in schedules, low salaries, lack of planning and ...
