TheOnlyDoubleF

Starting as a senior technical artist at blackbird interactive next week. I'm excited to move a bit more towards the art spectrum. Holy shit DCC's have improved in the 10 years since I actively used them. UV unwrapping is so much easier now.

Voilà le lien vers le podcast : https://open.spotify.com/show/6nyuHat61nBpT8flQcfpZ8?si=C2f4eh6iT22MZz_6pZHiYA 
I would not hesitate if the French Government was giving away houses in the countryside ahahah. 
I had some sort of alternative idea too. When I left ubisoft, my plan was to build a place outside of a big city where I could have a small game dev team but also space to have additionnal people working there like local freelancers, etc. A coworking place next to our game dev studio, and possibly welcoming some kind of game art residence there in greenlands. Sure the place would have a common food forest and a crop garden for people working there.
 
 

Voilà le lien vers le podcast : https://open.spotify.com/show/6nyuHat61nBpT8flQcfpZ8?si=C2f4eh6iT22MZz_6pZHiYA 
I would not hesitate if the French Government was giving away houses in the countryside ahahah. 
I had some sort of alternative idea too. When I left ubisoft, my plan was to build a place outside of a big city where I could have a small game dev team but also space to have additionnal people working there like local freelancers, etc. A coworking place next to our game dev studio, and possibly welcoming some kind of game art residence there in greenlands. Sure the place would have a common food forest and a crop garden for people working there.
 
 

It sounds like you've really been using your time well. Spending 2 months biking around France sounds amazing! Balzac also sounds really interesting, I should read that some day. Maybe in French.
Post a link to the podcast! Quand j'etais un enfant je pouvais parler plus Francais que Englais m'est je n'avais pas parler Francais chaque jour pour 20 ans alors c'est jours mon Francais est merd
I'm also heavily struggling with the city vs country thing. My partner is Japanese and the Japanese government is currently giving away 8 million houses, sometimes they even give you extra money to renovate them. We've thought a lot about maybe moving there and possibly having some sort of cafe or business. Either way, Japan is WAY cheaper than Vancouver. Since I'm a programmer I can pretty much work from anywhere and stuff is relatively cheap in Japan compared to where I live.
I'm Looking forward to seeing what you decide to do
Here's an example of a cafe started by some game developers close to Tokyo. They run the cafe and work on their games at the cafe at the same time. Sounds amazing https://picopicocafe.com/index_en.html
EDIT : I found some more photos of the cafe with people in it https://placehub.co/articles/2911580594

I burned out too while working on Riders Republic at Ubisoft Annecy last year. I can rely and say that not having a full time job is nice ahah. I've had kind of the same recovery moment after the burnout, covid madness and political insanity in France, climate change depression, breaking out with my girlfriend, family member's illness.... Life shit. 
But it's cool, I took time to build new courses for my level design lectures, I finished to write my game career book and signed a contract with a french book editor, I have time to read (I read the Ants trilogy from Bernard Werber, Karl Marx's misery of philosophy (and soon others), and bought many other things like Proust, Balzac and more classics) and exercices more. More importantly, I ride around France during two months by bike, visiting, riding and camping, meeting new people and way of living. That was a energizing adventures for sure. Will do again. 
Now, I have regular lectures in game schools for level design, I've started again my interview podcast of game devs (only in French sorry). The main question now is what do I do? Do I take a new job in a company? There are plenty of opportunities for technical design positions. Or do I go freelance as my heart is telling to? Am I able to work remotely? Am I not already too lonely? Should I live in a big city to benefit of culture and plenty of chicks? Or should I go and live in the countryside to get the garden I need, green lands and space for a dog? Wouldn't I be too lonely ? 
I'm really fighting with myself on those questions. My heart would like to work a third of my time on freelance mission, a third on lectures, and a third doing what I want but the impostor syndrome is challenging my ability to build a freelancing business on level design and tech design. Yet, I have an int for a potential client working on serious games and requesting assistance on UE4 stuff, may be that could be a good start and try for this way of life.

I burned out too while working on Riders Republic at Ubisoft Annecy last year. I can rely and say that not having a full time job is nice ahah. I've had kind of the same recovery moment after the burnout, covid madness and political insanity in France, climate change depression, breaking out with my girlfriend, family member's illness.... Life shit. 
But it's cool, I took time to build new courses for my level design lectures, I finished to write my game career book and signed a contract with a french book editor, I have time to read (I read the Ants trilogy from Bernard Werber, Karl Marx's misery of philosophy (and soon others), and bought many other things like Proust, Balzac and more classics) and exercices more. More importantly, I ride around France during two months by bike, visiting, riding and camping, meeting new people and way of living. That was a energizing adventures for sure. Will do again. 
Now, I have regular lectures in game schools for level design, I've started again my interview podcast of game devs (only in French sorry). The main question now is what do I do? Do I take a new job in a company? There are plenty of opportunities for technical design positions. Or do I go freelance as my heart is telling to? Am I able to work remotely? Am I not already too lonely? Should I live in a big city to benefit of culture and plenty of chicks? Or should I go and live in the countryside to get the garden I need, green lands and space for a dog? Wouldn't I be too lonely ? 
I'm really fighting with myself on those questions. My heart would like to work a third of my time on freelance mission, a third on lectures, and a third doing what I want but the impostor syndrome is challenging my ability to build a freelancing business on level design and tech design. Yet, I have an int for a potential client working on serious games and requesting assistance on UE4 stuff, may be that could be a good start and try for this way of life.

I burned out too while working on Riders Republic at Ubisoft Annecy last year. I can rely and say that not having a full time job is nice ahah. I've had kind of the same recovery moment after the burnout, covid madness and political insanity in France, climate change depression, breaking out with my girlfriend, family member's illness.... Life shit. 
But it's cool, I took time to build new courses for my level design lectures, I finished to write my game career book and signed a contract with a french book editor, I have time to read (I read the Ants trilogy from Bernard Werber, Karl Marx's misery of philosophy (and soon others), and bought many other things like Proust, Balzac and more classics) and exercices more. More importantly, I ride around France during two months by bike, visiting, riding and camping, meeting new people and way of living. That was a energizing adventures for sure. Will do again. 
Now, I have regular lectures in game schools for level design, I've started again my interview podcast of game devs (only in French sorry). The main question now is what do I do? Do I take a new job in a company? There are plenty of opportunities for technical design positions. Or do I go freelance as my heart is telling to? Am I able to work remotely? Am I not already too lonely? Should I live in a big city to benefit of culture and plenty of chicks? Or should I go and live in the countryside to get the garden I need, green lands and space for a dog? Wouldn't I be too lonely ? 
I'm really fighting with myself on those questions. My heart would like to work a third of my time on freelance mission, a third on lectures, and a third doing what I want but the impostor syndrome is challenging my ability to build a freelancing business on level design and tech design. Yet, I have an int for a potential client working on serious games and requesting assistance on UE4 stuff, may be that could be a good start and try for this way of life.

So I decided to leave the medical tech industry a few months back and take some time off. I was a little burned out working at a startup and have had an unprecedented amount of family and friend deaths in the last year (covid/suicide) I just needed a break so I could stop treading water trying to deal with all this stuff.
It's been pretty nice and I've finally had time to do stuff like read non-academic books, playing video games, studying math and going to school for Japanese. I'm also getting a lot more exercise. Even entered a game jam for the first time in 4 years. Finally I started tinkering with Unity. I used unity about 8 years ago and wasn't much of a fan of it but I decided to give it another go and it's come a long way.
Thinking about getting a license for Houdini, I used it a couple years ago and absolutely loved it. It's been well over 10 years now since I started programming and not doing art/design every day and it's so cool to see how all the 3d tools have advanced.
Anyways I'll be re-joining the games industry again in a few weeks. All good things must come to an end

Amnesia: Rebirth

Hey guys, to add on to this thread, I worte a broke that should be out soon aabout this same topic:
http://franckfitrzyk.com/index.php/2020/a-new-chapter-in-my-life-and-my-book/

I had enough of the production* of Steep which is different. 
Well I announced yesterday that I wrote a book called "Starting your career in the video game industry" so I have to finish this and it's done, I'd like to get some tech design freelance missions and travel for a bit.
http://franckfitrzyk.com/index.php/2020/a-new-chapter-in-my-life-and-my-book/

Achievement unlocked: you kept the baby alive for 1 year

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LEVEL DESIGNER for Tallest Tree
Hi there! I am developing a mobile game called Tallest Tree. You can take a look at it here:
Android: http://bit.ly/30ywmGW
iOS: https://apple.co/2GgU9lH
 
I am looking for 2-3 people who want to try their hand at level design using Unity. We are going to team up with the goal of creating 500 levels together. Levels are typically short, snack-sized obstacle courses that challenge the players in different ways. They’re fun to make, but the players complete them way quicker than I can make them - so I need your help!
 
 
THE PROCESS
If you just want to jump in for fun and try it out, you’re hereby invited to do so. All you gotta do is apply. I made a short video where I show how levels are made so you can get an idea of what it's like: 
 
If you want payment for your work, I can offer that too. It works like this:
You create a bunch of levels You send them for review You get feedback on your work You make an invoice for the levels that are put in the game You get paid  
I can offer 5$ for a long or complex level
I can offer 3$ for a short or simple level
 
I acknowledge that it’s a learning process, so if some of your first levels don’t make it into the game I will try to compensate you anyway. You will get faster and better at creating levels quite quick, and I’ll do my best to provide you with the tools and help you need to make it an enjoyable process. Note that in order to take part you will need to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement where you agree not to leak any of the source code or game assets
 
You are free to work in your own pace. You decide how many levels you want to make and when. In my own experience, a level usually takes between 15 and 30 minutes to make. 
 
 
HOW TO APPLY
Step 1: Download the game and try it out. You can find the links at the top of the post. 
Step 2: Fill out this application form: https://forms.gle/XKCBkKT5PLwzFcij9
 
That’s it! Once you filled it out, I will get back to you ASAP. 
 
Feel free to write me at niels.wosylus@gmail.com if you have any questions. 
 
Thanks for your time, I hope to hear from you soon!

After my recent sojourn I'm back in a more familiar milieu as I'm joining some old friends and colleagues at Embark Studios for new procedural adventures!
Will update the job listings with relevant positions, I know we looking for more awesome devs to join the studio!
ggs

Hey guys, 
Some of you may have seen my post in the "How to break in the games industry" thread that I was working on a book to gather advices and experience to explain to juniors how to improve their application profile. 
 
Well, I'm now launching a Kickstarter campaign to help me fund a proper translation from French to English to share the book worldwide. 

It's useless for the seniors and veterans to get this book (unless you want to be really nice and back the project) as the book is really aiming newbies. Yet, I'd gladly take your sharing abilities to spread the word about the campaign that is ending on the 1rst of April. 
If you know people that ask tons of questions about the gaming industry, teenagers that wonder how to break in, that's for them. 
Here is the link to the Kickstarter page!
Comments and suggestions are welcomed
See you!

Hey guys, 
Some of you may have seen my post in the "How to break in the games industry" thread that I was working on a book to gather advices and experience to explain to juniors how to improve their application profile. 
 
Well, I'm now launching a Kickstarter campaign to help me fund a proper translation from French to English to share the book worldwide. 

It's useless for the seniors and veterans to get this book (unless you want to be really nice and back the project) as the book is really aiming newbies. Yet, I'd gladly take your sharing abilities to spread the word about the campaign that is ending on the 1rst of April. 
If you know people that ask tons of questions about the gaming industry, teenagers that wonder how to break in, that's for them. 
Here is the link to the Kickstarter page!
Comments and suggestions are welcomed
See you!

Hey guys, 
Some of you may have seen my post in the "How to break in the games industry" thread that I was working on a book to gather advices and experience to explain to juniors how to improve their application profile. 
 
Well, I'm now launching a Kickstarter campaign to help me fund a proper translation from French to English to share the book worldwide. 

It's useless for the seniors and veterans to get this book (unless you want to be really nice and back the project) as the book is really aiming newbies. Yet, I'd gladly take your sharing abilities to spread the word about the campaign that is ending on the 1rst of April. 
If you know people that ask tons of questions about the gaming industry, teenagers that wonder how to break in, that's for them. 
Here is the link to the Kickstarter page!
Comments and suggestions are welcomed
See you!

Hey guys, to add on to this thread, I worte a broke that should be out soon aabout this same topic:
http://franckfitrzyk.com/index.php/2020/a-new-chapter-in-my-life-and-my-book/

When i finally started getting into Hammer again, having fun, i met a woman. Funny how everytime i start mapping i meet someone that keeps me occupied so i dont map.
But, i think she is great so, i am very happy ?

Going to Japan for a few weeks! 2 of those weeks I don't really have much of a plan. The best kind of vacation.

Hey guys, to add on to this thread, I worte a broke that should be out soon aabout this same topic:
http://franckfitrzyk.com/index.php/2020/a-new-chapter-in-my-life-and-my-book/

I had enough of the production* of Steep which is different. 
Well I announced yesterday that I wrote a book called "Starting your career in the video game industry" so I have to finish this and it's done, I'd like to get some tech design freelance missions and travel for a bit.
http://franckfitrzyk.com/index.php/2020/a-new-chapter-in-my-life-and-my-book/