Posts by Skjalg

  • New graphics site.

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  • Level Designer - Some questions

    I'd rather think about what you really do in your daytime.. If you like spending time in front of your computer and tv, why live in the middle of the city? Yea sure, you'll probably want to hang out with the guys at the office and start meeting girls and all that, but for how long? How long will it really take before you'll settle in to your own old rhythm again?

    Besides, living outside "of the action" isn't such a bad idea, since you can always stay where the action is most of the time (since you have friends and you work there), but isn't it a lot better to just have a place thats a little secluded sometimes?

  • Time to move on..

    Woah, I certainly did not expect to see this!

    I think you are doing the right thing though, the "I'm going to do it some day attitude" only works a few years, then you forget about it

    I wish you good luck with your studies, you'll find you have loads of free time (or not sometimes ). Does this mean we'll see some new custom levels by you in here? ;D

  • How are you doing?

    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.

  • Texture artist blog

    Quote from Phobos

    I've relaunched my site with a blog backing. I plan to do similar but more oriented to my adventures and experiments. Once I get up and running on a suitable computer more likely the content will contain UE3 and High poly cg scenage. I'm going to add you guys to my good peoples(blog roll) links.

    added you back phob~

  • Unreal Tournament 3

    Quote from ^Slick

    It's annoying, America seems to be the only place to get jobs, but I don't wanna move there really. Unless I get to work at Valve. =P

    Even if you wanted, you couldn't. That's what really suck about the US.