How are you doing?

[⌐■_■]

Great thread. Therapeutic too! Love to read stuff from you guys.

As for me, life is okay. Next week will be pretty relaxed I hope, as it is the last free week before school starts. I've worked 4 weeks as a mechanic, fixing wheelchairs and scootmobiles. Was fun, and I've made new friends. In about 2 weeks, I'll be having my introduciton into a schoolcounsil, wich I am looking very much forward to! I'll be staying in a hotel with all other chosen candidates and we'll hopefully have a good chance of meeting eachother. I should probably lay down on the girls a bit, since it's quite distracting from other impaortant things, but I find that really hard. It's ratio vs habit vs feelings. May the best win.

[KoKo5oVaR]

Awesome thread indeed, and i think really healthy for mapcore

Well these days will be i hope a new turn in my life, it's been now 5 years that i was studying stuff in Electrical engineering : 3 years at college and 2 years at university. I really wanted to work in the game industry before getting into all that, but i was convincing myself back then that i should study to get "a more serious job", just in case a career in the game industry couldn't work..

I should have graduate after my two years at university, and i needed a 10/20 to do so, well unfortunately, i had a 9,7/20 .. Tough stuff. Yeah mathematics aren't my thing since i was 13.

I had to work in an electronics company during that last year, and that was really terrible, the only moments the employees were speaking to each other were to say "morning" or "evening", we could talk about politics or the weather, maybe football sometime.. The only passion some of these guys had was working for working, it's not that they liked electronics, it was to appease some kind of culpability " I have a work, i work more than you, here me roar". And i told myself one thing when i was there : "I don't want to have a life like this."

So rather than doing another boring year just to get a paper and a nervous breakdown for a work that i'm sure i don't want to do, i decided to try to get into the game industry as an artist that year.

I postulated, and was accepted in a new formation about CG arts applied to games. It's basically a collaboration between a public university and an association of game developers around Lyon, we will be only 20 and our teachers will be people from development studios, but we will not learn how to draw or how to use 3dsmax, but more something like leading a project, getting in touch with the new technologies etc ..

Well i'm pretty excited to start although i have to say, all this is quite stressful, it's a bit like jumping blindly in a dark hole for me. Let's hope i could make contacts and find any cool work offers after that year.

The thing is, i don't really feel motivated these days about mapping and any other 3d work. It's not that i've lost any inspiration, actually the ideas are coming every time at every moment, it's the process of dedicate a lot of my hours to make that idea a reality that kind of bore me. And i find that a bit scary if i want to do something in the game industry..

But yeah doing this as job, i will certainly get over it i suppose .

Other than that, yeah, life is cool. Although a bit empty these days, like any end of holidays i suppose.. Next year i've taken resolutions, i'll have to find myself a girlfriend, cool thing is that i will be in an university with a majority of girls ( last year it was 196 guys for 4 chicks, electrical engineering ftw ). So yeah let's hope haha

[Sentura]

got accepted into a great uni on a bachelor line in software development, now "serving time". great people there, really happy about it (34 guys vs 6 chicks, all looking decent). got a new computer the other day, so i guess things are pretty cool.

all i need is a job that compliments my studies and it would be pretty perfect. i could go into details about trivial anecdotes, but i figured this is just as proper knowledge of my existance.

hope it gets better for you guys having a bad time atm.

[Bic-B@ll]

indeed a good thread, even if no one reads what anyone else posts

i go back to college on tuesday, i absolutely hate it there as its a shithole and has negative sociability. walk to class, walk to car go home type deal. i'lll be working 5 days while going to class 5 days (no days off) so that'll be just lovely. i 'm doing liberal arts for the second year since i still have no idea what i want to be. i;d love to go away to college.

i'd been a busboy at work for a year two weeks ago. i got promoted a few months ago to be a runner 2 days of the weekwhich is similar pay, a bit harder but half the hours and a step up. 2 weeks ago i was asked/asked to be a waiter so i got that and finished training last week. more money is always nice. i've been saving money since i've gotten a job and have a nice little bank account going.

i generally have no life, since i got a job that's basically been my only life. on the plus side i'm pretty friendly with some of the people at work. i hang out after work and drink with some people and i know the bartenders so that's nice. i was a shy person for a long time and im opening up. nothing at all in the area of girls though im friendly with two i work with...who are dating other people we're supposed to see a movie tomorrow. we were supposed to see one last saturday but that turned into drinking which wasn't a bad thing

i spend most of my free time watching tv/posting on forums/reading digg/ working on my car. yesterday i tore my car apart completely and replaced some belts water pump etc. i got the job done in 10 hours by myself and feel real good about it. ive put an assload of money into my car, i'm kind of passionate about it since it's just a fun and cool thing to have. i thought this picture was awesome:

http://www.zeroproof.com/bicball/tb.jpg

uh, thats kind of it

[e-freak]

your car looks like a transformer

My grandparents are going to take dinner today with us. My grandma has a bad senile dementia and at the moment the phase starts she can't recognize us. It's a bit frustrating and I have great respect to my grandfather who's managing to stay calm most of the time and getting things done. He's also learned to work with computers - started with the Atari and basically I think I've got my passion towards computers from him.

[Taylor]

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.

[Nysuatro]

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

[teeluu]

I met skdr last monday (i guess), my life is complete now. Nothing more to accomplish.

I'm serious

[Skjalg]

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.

[hamst3r]

just a lil` update: won out first football game of the season 10-0

[Ginger Lord]

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.

[Mazy]

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.

[Sentura]

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.

[Skjalg]

bump!

I know there is more of you people out there that only browse this forum but never posts, this is your time to introduce yourselves

[Minos]

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