How are you doing?

    Well, I’ve moved from the West Midlands to Sussex, I don’t really know many people here and have trouble meeting people so that’s certainly a down point, but I’m not living like a hermit and I knew this when I got The Job. I don’t actively disclose where I work on the big census thread because our publisher is wary of such things, and this account has seen me through my angst fuelled e-thug years, but we’ve just announced the project, though little media so far, and I’m just going to worry about that for now.

    Going to do my 6 the year secundairy school ( multimediatechnics ) . Yes, i had to redo my 5the year 3times. Lats times was because i didnt had enough points for geographic.

    in my free time I work for I-visit (http://www.i-visit.be ) as the man who helps with the conceptuel, graphical work. Working on a big gameproject for pda and probably going to work on software for the olympic games in Beijing for the people of belgium who go to there.

    I am also now training hard for breakdance competition. trying to recover of my shoulder that was 'out of my skelet' (dont know how to say in english ^^ )

    I am now learning css and php for my final work for school. And yes, i am a workfreak.

    Thanks for reading

    Very nice thread indeed. I respect d3ads for daring to lay out all of his problems like that. I don't think I can do that without seeming too emo. (Not that you did d3ads).

    I'm currently on my third year of Uni up here in Narvik, Norway. Its the neighbor town of where insta grew up, and its fucking desolate. I hate this place more than anything, but I need to finish. The course I'm taking is alright though, we're focusing heavily on programming for games, but seeing as I'm more interested in 3d and level design, I'm not as good at it as I could have been. (Still one of the better programmers in my class though). This year we're having some interesting courses though, learning 3d studio max and games programming in c# (for xbox and pc).

    When it comes to girls, well, as I mentioned this place is desolate. Only girls here are those that are attending high school (16 and under), and since I'm 21 years old and have standards I don't make friends I visited my little brother that was studying in the nearest big city (Tromsø) and then I noticed where all the girls had gone.. Damn lucky bastard.

    After my first year up here, I realized that this was a piece of shit town and I wanted out. But the only way I could get out was if I got a job. I applied to Funcom (oslo), IO (denmark), grin (sweden) and avalanche studios (sweden). Evert gave me an art test, but it was making terrain in 3d studio max and I think I failed Can't blame him tho Avalanche wanted me to write up a mission design document, and I did; they liked it. They did a phone interview with me and it went well and they said my mission was the best one they received etc. Then I didn't hear back from them for a week or so and when I emailed them back they said they had hired another guy and wanted me to finish my education. Io and funcom never replied back.

    Awesome stuff.

    Well, I just had to suck it up, improve my portfolio and finish school, it's not like a bachelors degree in something will hurt me down the line I'm going to really put an effort into my portfolio around Christmas and then apply at Grin Barcelona first, I think. I want to go somewhere its sunny.

    My dream has always been to have a job in games dev, and I want to work with people that I can be good friends with, hang around with, since most likely my whole life will evolve around work I need that one thing to be good.

    If I don't get a good job somewhere I like, I'll start my own company I think.

    Start the third and final year of my Bachelors degree (BA Hons Multimedia Design & Digital Animation) in a month and hope the lecturers accept my choice of specialising in Digital Animation for the final major project.

    Hope to get a 2.1 out of it, a first is asking a lot and nobody for 2 years has got a first from the course and seeing the levels people were doing for 2.1's this year is gonna be tough to match. That Solar animation I posted got a 2.1 grade for it!

    I'm now the President of the universities climbing club so hopefully make that even more successful than last year, lots of work to do be done there. It's also where I met my current gf and we've been going out for near enough 5 months down and its all been good. We also knew each other for about 6 months before so whoever said being friends before doesnt work is wrong.

    Once Uni is finished I'm not quite sure what i want to do, either Level Design or something Modelling/Animation based in the Games/Film industry perhaps. I think that I'm definatly gonna have a year off doing random stuff as by that point it will have been 17 straight years of education, definatly deserve a rest. Hopefully will build up a better portfolio of stuff this year and next to get a decent launchpad into wherever I decide to go.

    Hmm not much to be honest, at least not compared to some of you guys . Work is good, great to finally be done with that piece of shit game (jk ). Really looking forward to the release of it, first title I've been on from the very beginning, very exciting stuff. Hope it'll be good, would suck to spend over 3 years of your life on something that doesn't sell (or rock!).

    Still looking for an apartment close to work, but the prices for a proper place in central Copenhagen are just fucking nuts, so I'm probably gonna keep on freeloading until things cool down (Or I find a better alternative) :G

    Apart from that then I'd still love to get something resembling a social life beyond what I got now, but with a release calender this packed for the rest of the year then I somehow doubt I'll be able to break loose from the games for a while . I'm weak, I know.

    yeah getting an apartment at this time in copenhagen is not possible, what with all the academic people coming in. i am really glad i have my own place close to uni (which is at islands brygge, for those curious) so i can bike there every day.

    yeah awesome thread indeed, we used to have one of this in the past and it rocked.

    I'm doing rather well. I'm enjoying Design school a lot, and it's amazing how noob'ish I was when I joined it 6 months ago. I already learned a lot of useful things like visual perception theories, color theory, etc etc Kickass stuff

    I have a lovely girlfriend, we are together for over a year now. It's amazing how our relationship is very steady. We never had any major fights (only small arguments but who doesn't ?) and I'm pretty glad with having her as my gf

    Besides all of that I decided to quit another shit part time job last friday and run my own business from home (more details on my blog - http://www.meetmino.net ). I'm also working hard on my portfolio in order to apply for Grin someday (but I don't think Evert would like me IRL ).

    so yeah, all in all life is pretty good

    why don't you polish your portfolio and find a job elsewhere? if you are not happy with university, then i don't think it is good for you to waste the time there. a bad degree wont help you later. better get a good one or spend them time elsewhere!

    keep in mind that a degree is something you do for your life, so it might be hard from time to time. later you can pretty much do what ever you want to.

    my advice: shit on the girl, focus on university. throw your self into work and get something out of you. when you are 30 years old, got a nice job, a nice apartment, money, a car you will surely find lots of girls. there like 3 Mrd. around the world, so one might fit to you

    cheers!

    Hope you are right It is very hard to find a job... As one rapper said "I won't work at fast-food, I got some talent..." but ther is no other good work...

    My plan:

    - make a project to school, lern a lot - it's only 2 years to end :>

    - make maps (now I'm makink a HL2, Q4, Painkiller maps and I'm looking forward to map in Uneral Engine 3), finish all 3d models...

    Thanks for comment hessi. Here, take a donut made by me :

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    Well if I'd have posted when I intended a few days back then my story would have had a slightly happier spin on it, but life in general is pretty good just now. The downside is that my girlfriend just split up with me at the weekend, which sucks as I really liked her. Things weren't exactly ideal there, as we live in different cities and work 9-5 jobs, meaning we saw each other precisely bugger all, so I can't really blame her. Thankfully it was fairly early on - we'd been seeing each other for just over a month - so although it's disappointing at least it isn't heartbreaking as it might have been further down the line. I'm sad mostly because we were good friends beforehand, and as much as I'd love to go back to the way we were, it isn't gonna be the same. At least not for a long while.

    In happier news, I'm still working at Outerlight - have been a year and a half now - and I really like it here. We've recently started a new project, and as I joined near the end of development on The Ship it's nice to get involved in a project from the beginning. Since the company is so small everyone on the team gets to have a lot of creative input, and I tend to take advantage of that by shoving my opinions and suggestions in wherever I can, asked for or otherwise

    I had been commuting to our office from my parents house in a nearby town, but a couple of weeks ago I moved into a flat in Edinburgh with 4 mates. It isn't the nicest flat in the world as some of them are students and couldn't afford much else, but it is ideally located in the city centre and it's good to be living away from my folks again. Living with non 9-5 workers is certainly having it's downsides already though, particularly at 4am on Sunday mornings and the like, but I suppose now I'm single again it might have its advantages too

    I think I need to start doing more activities, as at the moment my spare time is fairly repetitively spent between games, movies, and, errr, drinking with mates. I'm quite into my ice skating, and my new flat is in walking distance to the ice rink, so I should definately start going there more often. I'm also considering trying out ice hockey, but I'm not exactly built for that sort of sport! I love snowboarding but I only tend to get away once a year, so I should really find something else I can do more regularly. I already miss the poker nights I had with my mates back home before I moved - gonna have to try and build a new crew here in the city!

    So that's that Interesting thread by the way, nice to read more about you all.

    Well, I guess I'll have to start of what happened 2.. no, almost 3 years ago.. Has it really been that long?

    To my complete surprise my girlfriend left me a week after my 18th birthday, for some guy I had never met before. That was pretty much enough to send me to the bottom of a bottle for the rest of the year. I don't think there was a single dry weekend for me between first of april to first of december. I spent all my time working, coming home from work and starting to booze up, usually till I passed out. I finally started to get a grip of my life in the early fall when I went back to school. Sadly I had told some very nice girls to fuck off before this, and I haven't had a real relationship since.

    Well, I'm still pretty bitter about it, and have lost my respect for girls, especially when similiar things have happened to my friends since. It's sad but it's true.

    I finished gymnasium with pretty decent marks and applied to Tampere Polytechnic University to become a bachelor of arts and media, and started my studies here three weeks ago, but before that I had to serve my time in the finnish military for nine months, a period of my life I regard as the most unnecessary one ever.

    But now I'm here. I absolutely love my school and the people in here, and I think it's the only solid thing in my life right now. I'm living in Hervanta, a suburb in Tampere with an old friend of mine and another friend of his, but I don't really feel home here living with them and I'm thinking of moving again to an apartment of my own. I just wouldn't want to fuck my mates up like that, because they need me to pay part of the rent.

    My father is still hoping a professional athlete of me, a vision I too had 8 years ago. It's been a very dear idea for him since and I really don't have the heart to tell him I'm not interested in it anymore.

    My grandmother is dying of old age, she has severe dementia, and can't recognize us very well anymore, sometimes he thinks it's the 60's, 70's and so on.

    I'm still battling alcoholism. I'm not self destructive anymore, but I definately drink too often. I'm also starting to gain some weight, and I have very dry and weak skin which causes a lot of problems to me.

    I'm currently trying to learn the guitar, and I miss my dog.

    Edit: And I still seriously play CS. I've been playing since 1999, in clans since 2001. I love the game, I hate pretty much everybody playing it. I've promised myself I will quit playing the game and start using linux or mac to ensure this if the scene doesn't heal up before january 2009, when I have played for 10 years.

    My fourth year of college is starting up this Wednesday. I'd like to say its my last, but I'm on the five year program (might even stay a bit longer to get a second major). I'll be glad to be back in school because I'll actually get stuff done. Most of the classes are programming related and I'm really looking forward to the operating systems and software engineering classes (get to learn about multi-threaded programming, UML, and spend the semester converting a board game into a software product. I'll probably work on the GUI and throw some 3d in there.)

    I'm really glad that this last summer is finally over. It was pretty rough, mostly because all my good friends graduated college and are off in some other place in the world working, making a family, making a life, and here I sit in a closed off room never feeling more alone. That and it's been about two years since my last relationship, and every decent girl around this dank little shit town is already taken. After about a month of a lonely and boring summer, I really started questioning my faith and my life, and I started drinking heavily. I'll admit, I went a bit emo on the inside (not outside, though).

    In the last week though, things have really started to turn up. I've stopped drinking (when I'm alone, at least ) and I've actually been able to do a few things that are productive. Over labor day weekend I decided to learn ActionScript 3.0 (Flash CS3), so to help myself make the jump from AS2 to AS3, I made Pong in flash (it's funny. I'm trying to become a game programmer, yet I've never made Pong). I had a programming binge that went for about 7-8 hours and man, did I ever feel alive. I guess it's kind of nerdy to admit that one of the only times I truly feel alive is when I'm programming, but it's the truth. I actually was able to take a lot from making a complete game from start to finish, regardless of how small it is. I've never done that before, and now I want to keep going. It's a beautiful feeling; going from feeling like you're in the gutter to feeling like you're on top of the world.

    I guess the biggest part of my problem over the summer was the fact that I just didn't want to grow up. I didn't want anything to change. I wanted to stay in college with the same group of friends forever because hanging out in the computer lab with people I could relate to was one of the greatest highs a guy like me could ever have, and when they all left to go their separate ways and live their own lives, I went into withdrawals. But over the past few weeks I've been able to get over that fact and realize that this is my life, things change, things will change, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. And the change can either be for the better, or for the worse, but no matter which it is, things always come around one way or another.

    So here I am, back in a good position (even though I wasted most-of-if-not-all my summer being a drunken depressed emo [i'll admit it]). College starts up tomorrow, I'm back on my feet, and my faith is restored. Enough of me being emo. Never again! There is work to be done, a life to be lived, and games to make!

    Edit [to comment on Grin's post that was posted while I was writing my post]: Grin, sounds like you have a pain I know all too well. My last relationship ended with her leaving me for some guy I never met, and her becoming a stripper and a crack whore. Got me drinking, too. Don't worry man. Things will shape up for you.

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