Posts by Furyo

The skill almost no one is ever taught in most schools, regardless of industry, is the ability to sell yourself. There is only one school variety that teaches that, and that's business school (How could you sell shit without selling yourself to the customer?)

I have lost count of the number of people throughout my career that I've helped with:

- Writing resume

- Writing cover letter

- Answering phone / interviews

- basic form of media training

- networking

More than ever, even for students, your NAME is your BRAND, and the reputation you can build around it is what will get you through the door. Sure, I can already hear the artist types yawning and protesting that that's not what they should do, that they don't like doing it, they don't know how, yadda yadda yadda. Truth is you absolutely MUST know how to do it, and be good about it too.

Look around your favorite social network or news site, see how many times you get to see the same names coming up again, and ask yourself the question how they got there. Work alone wasn't enough.

Kickstarter people need to open up a dictionary and understand the difference between donating money and investing in a company.

The kickstarter money was long gone by the time FB bought them. There were other private investors, of whom I know one, who had been feeding them a lot more money than kickstarter.

Fixed it, dirty scoundrel of a space breached in

Landing on tuesday night, so it doesn't look like we'll make it Sylvain

So we're not doing any kind of Mapcore get together this year? The first year I can make it, and I won't see your ugly mugs....

I'll be there too Very much looking forward to it

Done

Done too

Done for you Will, as well as Paul

Done and done

Anyone else need anything changed to the list, feel free to reply here or send me a PM.

You can't make one union, you need to make as many unions as there are countries, or at least regions. Legally speaking, the unions in the US wouldn't even work in Europe, and vice versa.

I still think we're going to see one being made, but it will be some time before it happens. We need to wait for the proper conditions to be met, which are:

- Shift of negotiating power from publishers to content makers

- Global consolidation of the different segments of the market in a specific city/region (think all AAA in X, all indie in Y etc like Hollywood and multiple festivals)

- Less "This is my dream career, I will do whatever I can" mentality and more "This is a great job and I love it, but I'm not going to bend over and take it" on the part of developers.

Look back on the history of Hollywood, you'll see the same patterns before unions were created. But we're decades away (comparatively) from that. If United Artists being created by Chaplin and co as a reaction against the main studios is our equivalent of the indie scene bursting out from EA and Activision, then we still have to wait a bit.

Thanks Sprony Means a lot to more people than you would imagine.

On the subject of layoffs, here's my latest article on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/art…y?trk=prof-post

Reformatted the list, and switched good ole Skjalg

Just added your name, sorry about that. Also removed PenE from MetricMinds now that he's at Yager.

Sorry about that, full thread updated.

Changed that for you James. Can't wait to hear what that good news is

I've had so much fun with the beta, my laptop could barely run this thing at 640*480 Honestly, I haven't played many MPs at all since my Day of Defeat days, aside from a 6 months stint of Left 4 Dead. This reminds me so much of the Quake III Arena days. The same intensity, the same "almost-too-tight" maps that always leave you with one escape route but bring so much adrenaline in. I loved playing it.

I've been interviewing a lot lately, so I'm pretty much set for the time being. Get in touch with vivi over PM to see if he needs some help.

If you're looking to help outside of Mapcore, please go on Twitter and use the hashtag #IrrationalJobs to see all of the great talent recently let go

We were three, all laid off in the first round of economic layoffs that happened in September last year. Patrick_H is no longer on Mapcore I think, vivi, and myself. All level designers.

As for talking about what happened, we can't so don't ask