Richard S. Levine has been a mathematics teacher, video games designer and developer, and senior software engineer. He is perhaps best known in the video games world for his classic video game, "Microsurgeon." Now he write science fiction too. For more on his publishings and accomplishments, see http://www.rickslevine.com.
It seems that often baseball teams will put rookies with promising talent in the minor leagues to gain the skills they require to pitch in the majors. Too many tech companies don 't do that. They interview and test as if candidates magically already have all the skills and knowledge ...
In the early days of games, you had the Atari 2600...all billed as cheap family computers that you could balance your checkbook on... I agree with Scott Hansen. I think you meant the Atari 800.
Well said. I worked in games starting with Mattel Electronics in the 1970 's and later Imagic, Cinemaware, Digital Pictures, and Microsoft -- as well as games in other non-game companies. While I don 't think there is r nan issue between AAA and Indie developers, I do think there ...
Dan, I had to laugh, the early 90 s being the relatively early days of game development. I started working on games handhelds and later video at Mattel Electronics in the late 70 s. We were all from various backgrounds: chemists, engineers, mathematicians, artists, teachers, etc. Most of us didn ...
Game designers and developers should be treated like any professionals. You should be free to schedule your time as you see necessary as long as you meet your professional commitments e.g. milestones, deadlines, meetings .
