Posts by Jord

Neocron.

Shit didn't realise it was this weekend

Completely forgot about this.

Looks like it's all sold out

I don't think I'd mind being called a hypocrite by the internet for $1.4billion in the bank

I personally think Notch should take the $2bil. He could easily just set up another team with his closest friends/trusted devs and make whatever games he wants for the rest of his life without worrying about money ever.

Mojang and Minecraft has(I'd imagine) got way bigger than he'd hoped, maybe he's just sick of running the company and wants to get back to just making whatever games he wants? Who knows.

Damn we've come a long way.

Good work Alex, well done.

Fallout 3 is the game that comes to mind on this one. It felt like the game world was changing even while I wasn't really doing anything. And the choices I made actually mattered and changed how I played the game. I really love the way the world is built too, I can spend hours and hours just walking around looking at the assets, it's quite inspiring.

I should probably add to this. I resubscribed WoW. Life is over.

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Tore my foreskin.

If you play with it too much it'll fall off

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I remember the day I quite my job at the movie theater. The boss was like "get on the floor and scrub under the popcorn machine" and I had already clocked out and it was super late. He was being such a dick and used to bully everyone (still does to this day from what I've heard). I took my work shirt off and left. I had people running out the back door like "Jason come back!!!!!". (It was like a movie scene)

Next week I applied and got an internship at Gearbox Software. I remember coming back for my final paycheck and showing my portfolio to my coworkers. My old boss was working that day and said to me "You'll never amount to anything".

Now every time I see him at the theater, I can't stop this giant grin from spreading across my face.

Feels good.

I love making games for a living. It's just, the best

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plz make this into a movie

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Desperately looking for a new job. Hit me up

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Got a pay rise, got a bonus, went out with my boy Kinky from amazon game studios - remember being in a club at 5am, then waking up at 2pm this afternoon with my iphone web browser on eurogamer.net homepage, an empty tub of vaseline next to my bed and an urgent need to wash my bedsheets. Guess I had a good night

wat?

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Sounds like a bit of a dramatic title for a thread, but I'm genuinely curious as to how people feel about working in the games industry. Do you enjoy your current job? Explain what your job title is, and what you actually do on a daily basis... Be as vague as you like if you're scared of upsetting the boss men

I'm just curious, because I kinda feel a bit burnt out at the moment, like I'm not really enjoying my job, and I've felt it at the past 2 places I've worked. Making games has always been a huge passion of mine, but just recently I feel as if I've lost that passion during the hours of 9-5... When I get home I suddenly feel quite inspired to work on my own stuff. Therefore I end up staying up pretty late because I kinda wanna put off the inevitable.

I remember that I used to feel so lucky to be working in this industry, I could make art all day and remember thinking that I should consider myself lucky because I could be stacking shelves at Tesco or whatever.. But these days I have actually been considering what I would do if I wasn't in the games industry.

Please post up your own thoughts about your job, I'm really interested to see what people think!

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I can empathise with this I think. Being a game developer has really been the only thing I've ever wanted to do since I was about 16 and discovered it was a possible career. I've done nothing but aim to become a game developer, got a BTec in game design, got a degree in game design and then went straight in to QA and shortly after went in to level design.

I feel like I've achieved what thousands of people set out to achieve and followed my dream but sometimes I have to remind myself of that as it does become just a job from time to time. For instance right now I've been moved on to a project I don't really want to be working on and don't enjoy working on, but that's life right? Most people can't pick and choose what they want to do every day.

Most of the time I'm doing something different every single day whether it be whiteboxing, prototyping, document writing, design meetings etc. Most days I learn something new and get new challenges. I don't think there are that many jobs that could offer this honestly. I also have flexi-time, everyone around me shares the same passion and interests and I'm surrounded by intelligent and talented people.

I recently had a 15 year old family friend ask me about getting in to games. He wants to make games and his mum wants him to be a lawyer, he can't decide which. I told him if he wants money, go be a lawyer. If he wants something new to do and learn every single day, make games.

Sure the salaries could be better and we have to work on things we don't want to from time to time. But damn, we've got it pretty good compared to most.

I honestly don't think I would want to do anything other than make games...

http://kotaku.com/biowares-newes…alms-1620677999

I think this is going to be pretty awesome, just signed up for alpha testing.

I'd imagine people are angry at Activision for using Kickstarter rather than their own funds, not the concept of kickstarter itself.

Nice thread. I'll be grabbing a copy of UE4 soon and these will be really useful.

Some good games industry news for once!

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I don't want to be rude, but...are they walking dicks?

I can't unsee that...

Loving this so much. Reminds me a bit of Remember Me's style and that had some stunning art.

When you're finished or whenever you get the time I'd love to see a break down of your modular parts if you don't mind? It's something I'm trying to improve on and I was attempting to make a city scene a while ago but as you found I struggled with the creeping scope of the sheer scale of a city

Anything RTS is a really good shout, play on the easier levels of difficulty and they can take their time. I've managed to get my gf hooked on Prison Architect too, she's really not a gamer so it's been hard to find some games to introduce gaming to her.

Avoid MOBAs imo, the learning curve is just too steep for a non gamer I find. Simple free to play MMOs such as RIFT really help with getting to grips with using WASD and hotkeys too.

Want this so bad. The cast looks great and with the original creators it seems like it'll have a similar style the older ones.