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Marc Mencher's Blog   Expert Blogs

Game Programmer gone Recruiter and Career Coach, Marc Mencher has been in the Game Industry for 27 years. He is the founder and CEO of GameRecruiter www.GameRecruiter.com

Marc began his career working for Spectrum Holobyte, Microprose and The 3DO Company. While he enjoyed coding, through the experience of developing product and leading teams,
he realized that his true passion was helping people plan and manage their careers.

Marc is the author of "Get in the Game!” an instructional book on building a career in the video game industry. His articles have been featured in a variety of industry publications. He is a speaker at game industry conferences and volunteers as an advisory board member
for several colleges. Marc has been interviewed on television and radio as an expert on working in the videogames industry.

His detailed bio can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Mencher

Along with his team of Recruiter / Career Agents, Marc has had the pleasure of representing the game industry’s hottest talent, and has helped thousands of people manage their career and obtain strategically important game jobs. Integrity and confidentiality are the cornerstones of his success.

Expert Blogs

Physics and Game Development; or, What Goes Up Better Come Down
Posted by Marc Mencher on Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:13:00 EDT in Programming
Computer and video games apply the laws of physics so that objects "behave" as they do in the normal world. This means that programmers need to know the physical science equations to apply them accurately and appropriately to the game code.
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Hiring Managers: Vetting Game Programmers  Featured Blogs
Posted by Marc Mencher on Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:58:00 EST in Programming
When hiring a programmer STOP asking defination questions like what types of inheritance or global variables appear in a CPP file. Or what is polymorphism... You want to know how a programmer THINKS, REASONS and SOLVES PROBLEMS - not what they memorize!
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