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I think I had a H1B, if that's the one that lasts about 3 years, for management positions. There was a mighty load of paperwork that got prepared (not by me), a couple of months wait, and then an interview at the US embassy in the UK that involved half a day of sitting around, and about 5 minutes of actual interview.
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Chernabog posted:There's a beer Wednesday in Redmond. Are they related or anything? As far as I know, Jim has established Beer Wednesdays in Orange County, San Francisco, Washington, British Columbia, and Michigan, although Michigan's is called "Whiskey Thursday" because that's just how they roll over there. 
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Dr. Disco Quest posted:Has anyone here had any experience moving over to a dev job in the US on a H1B visa, and could perhaps share any insight in to this process and it's perils and pitfalls? Get a good lawyer and don't try and do anything yourself, because if you do you're virtually guaranteed to gently caress it up in some subtle way 
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Crossposting from the "Making Games..." thread, as it seems to be dead: My team created a game for facebook, and we're hoping to start moving FB games away from the "collect turnips!" gameplay and into something more fun. Here is our teaser trailer: http://youtu.be/pOXp4mWpBig This is my first foray into the games dev world, so I'd love to get feedback and critique from you guys! Here is the link to the open beta: https://apps.facebook.com/izelis_sotf/
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Wasn't there a small group of women that were devs in the montreal area that wanted to have a small meet and talk about the challenges of being a minority in the industry? Is this still something that might happen?
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Talk about an impenetrable thread title... But such a good interview question!
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Dec 9, 2011 21:06
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I got the all clear. I work for Ready at Dawn Studios in Irvine, CA. You can see some of the positions we have on our website: http://www.readyatdawn.com/ though I know that isn't all-inclusive. There is a submission e-mail there if you want to submit that way.
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Dec 9, 2011 21:21
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Monster w21 Faces posted:I'd say do it. Mega Shark posted:Keep going for sure. If I got your resume I'd note it and we'd talk about it. (Unless the rest of your resume was unreadable and horrible) Thanks guys. I think I'll just make a big push to finish it up over the weekend or as quickly as I can do it.
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Dec 9, 2011 21:44
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Um, if you guys are looking for people it might be a good idea to actually update your site. The "We're hiring!" posting is still dated march third....
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Dec 9, 2011 21:53
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devilmouse posted:Talk about an impenetrable thread title... But such a good interview question! On the other hand, I'd be happy to analyze Augeries of Innocence, have read a fair bit of Leaves of Grass, etc. Classic literature, though? No memory for it. EDIT: Besides, classic short stories and poems are better anyways 
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Dec 9, 2011 22:09
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GetWellGamers posted:Um, if you guys are looking for people it might be a good idea to actually update your site. The "We're hiring!" posting is still dated march third.... We get many applications and I do think the listings get updated, just not the post date of that specific portion. I'm throwing it out to here, not because we have a lull in applications but because I wanted to let people know in case they're looking and haven't really considered Ready at Dawn. We are hiring and we'll continue to hire for some time.
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Dec 9, 2011 22:55
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Shalinor posted:EDIT: Besides, classic short stories and poems are better anyways Heavily debatable. 
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Shalinor posted:You'd stump me completely. My memory of classic literature is, honestly, quite terrible. One of my go-to interview moves for content and narrative designers is to steer the conversation towards one of their favorite pieces of fiction, be it books, tv, or film. We'll talk a bit about it, what attracted them to it, what works and what didn't, and so forth until the big reveal when I ask them to make it into a Facebook game. Brothers K as a FB game?! Oh such fun there would be! My favorite was when a guy started was gushing about Dexter. Trying to make Dexter aspirational for middle-aged women? Good times!
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Just for my edification: did he go the route of a Dexter-themed hidden object game? Where did that sneaky Dexter hide the Femur and bloody slides this time seems like it could actually be sorta fun.
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It's Friday night and I'm in the almost empty IRC Channel: #gamedevgoons on SynIRc. I'll be pounding away at my personal Unity project for a good chunk of time tonight while I idle in there.
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devilmouse posted:One of my go-to interview moves for content and narrative designers is to steer the conversation towards one of their favorite pieces of fiction, be it books, tv, or film. We'll talk a bit about it, what attracted them to it, what works and what didn't, and so forth until the big reveal when I ask them to make it into a Facebook game. Brothers K as a FB game?! Oh such fun there would be! Math-based minigames, colonization, customization of your foundation, watching it grow and change over time - hell, you could even use the mathematical prediction schtick as a sort of guide system to suggest necessary improvements to novice players. EDIT: Oh, wait, no, need to do one for Stranger In A Strange Land. You could eat your friends to grok them
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Shalinor posted:... and now I want to make a Facebook game based on Foundation. A game based on The Left Hand of Darkness would be the best dating sim ever!
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wodin posted:Just for my edification: did he go the route of a Dexter-themed hidden object game? Where did that sneaky Dexter hide the Femur and bloody slides this time seems like it could actually be sorta fun. Haha, kind of! It was more CSI / Treasure Island style tile-clearing game, where your short-term, single-session goals rotated between "finding a target", "prepping your kill room", and "cleaning up / hiding evidence". He chose to skip over the actual kill, despite me prodding him to include a Dark Cut / Amateur surgeon "reward" game. Like all games that were designed in 15 minutes, it had a lot of funny concepts and actually sounded like it might have been fun, though we couldn't really get it to be very appropriate for the female audience short of the ham-fisted "try to protect your family then get revenge" introduction scene.
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We had our Christmas party last night. There was a raffle at the end. There were three prizes. I won two of them. A 3DS with Mario Kart and an iPad 2. gently caress me.
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Our christmas party was last night as well, won a mw3 360! Gotta go find my car now.
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What's with the Christmas parties already? It's not for two more weeks!
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Akuma posted:What's with the Christmas parties already? It's not for two more weeks! People start leaving for holiday breaks pretty soon, hard to have an office christmas party when everyone's gone.
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Dec 10, 2011 20:31
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Ours is Monday. We're going bowling. 
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Is this some kind of secret thread cabal perks system? Extra tickets for work raffles? You lucky bastards!
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Got offered a nice programming job yesterday 
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mutata posted:Ours is Monday. We're going bowling. We're having ours on Friday. Last week we got an email telling everyone to not make any afternoon plans. A few days later we got a second email saying to not make any plans for the whole day. I have no idea what's brewing but it's going to be awesome.
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crazylakerfan posted:Got offered a nice programming job yesterday Congratulations! Best wishes with it, if you accept. 
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crazylakerfan posted:Got offered a nice programming job yesterday The best Christmas present...
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devilmouse posted:One of my go-to interview moves for content and narrative designers is to steer the conversation towards one of their favorite pieces of fiction, be it books, tv, or film. We'll talk a bit about it, what attracted them to it, what works and what didn't, and so forth until the big reveal when I ask them to make it into a Facebook game. Brothers K as a FB game?! Oh such fun there would be! Gravity's Rainbow as a Facebook game.
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Speaking of Christmas parties, I'm posting from ours to report that wthere is a girl from QA wearing a reindeer fursuit... 
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Jan posted:Speaking of Christmas parties, I'm posting from ours to report that wthere is a girl from QA wearing a reindeer fursuit... These are the best times of your life. You get an Life Achievement if you hook up with her.
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Jan posted:Speaking of Christmas parties, I'm posting from ours to report that wthere is a girl from QA wearing a reindeer fursuit...
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New thread title right there.
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... uh, wow, The Savage Garden trailer has over 1k views, and we've got actual press out there. We weren't going to go hunting for any just yet, but, seems some happened anyways - wooo! Whichever one of you wrote this: http://www.indiegamemag.com/a-revolutionary-platforming-rpg-the-savage-garden-igf-2012-trailer/ - you're awesome, dude. (it got picked up by n4g.com and indus.fr - indus.fr is the biggest contributor, pushed 500+ views) (EDIT: I realize 1k views is peanuts, but it's still more than I've seen on many trailers for finished indie games) Shalinor fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Dec 11, 2011 |
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Right, finished catching up the last 10-15 pages reading almost all posts, and now it's time for a little introductory post. All this talk about the prejudice towards Full Sail et cetera made me a bit nervous, I hope it is specific for these programs/courses and not generalized worldwide, as I have just a couple of months started studying at the North Karelia University of Applied Sciences, where we have one of the largest selection of courses for specializing in game programming in this country (which is Finland). The school will last for 3 and a half years, and in case someone is interested in what kind of courses we get to choose from, there's an almost translated list of studies available (some keywords: valinnainen = optional, peliohjelmointi = game programming). I wish they'd have finished the translation so I wouldn't have to write a manual how to use that to every foreign friend I link this to. Even though most game programming courses start on the second year, I've already taken a couple of courses from there and made myself familiar with Unity and XNA (I also should finish that Pacman in Windows Forms just because I can), and will most probably start making up a portfolio of some sort (which is currently disappointingly nonexistant apart from a flash game or two). One thing I've already learned is that in order to be successful (especially in the games industry) you have to get networked, and I guess that shows pretty well in this thread I... I don't really have any questions or don't need any feedback at the moment but will gladly accept any hints and tips what might be ahead. Also if you have questions about the education, I'll be happy to answer those.
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Shalinor posted:To contrast against this, I would indeed hire a programmer with no 4 year degree or professional experience, so long as they had an amazing portfolio... AND if they were solid in an interview. Not for a lead or anything though, it'd be for a jr. role, and I'd be considering contracting-style employment to avoid nastiness if they didn't work out. Looks pretty cool but one thing I have to say is that if this is heavy on platforming - it seems like the camera is zoomed in maybe a bit too much? I understand you want to show off the character art - or maybe it seems a little constricted because the video is not full 16:9? It just seems like the character taking up 1/3rd of the screens vertical height may be overkill. r2x fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Dec 12, 2011 |
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r2x posted:Looks pretty cool but one thing I have to say is that if this is heavy on platforming - it seems like the camera is zoomed in maybe a bit too much? I understand you want to show off the character art - or maybe it seems a little constricted because the video is not full 16:9? It just seems like the character taking up 1/3rd of the screens vertical height may be overkill. ... however, Shadow Complex was most often room-based, and in each "room"/encounter, the camera tended to be either zoomed out or entirely fixed. We have similar tech, we're just not employing it in any of the scenes you see in the trailer. We can pull back, adjust height, and lerp to/from a fixed camera lookat. I'm going to try and add a "constrain camera to plane, and constrain plane to X/Y with XYZ up" function too, but still not sure how to do it in a way that'll be user-friendly in UnrealEd. We'll also toy with the default zoom level as we build more regions. If it seems like we're constantly throwing down zoom volumes to a particular distance, we'll probably make that the default instead. We'll also look at using those pull-outs to hint encounters to players (again, much like what Shadow Complex does - they pull out any time you need to platform, they tend to go fixed any time there's a complex combat sequence, etc). EDIT: VV Yes. Already planned. Not in trailer because... well it's not even started yet. We've only had about 2 months on this thus far, kind of a long way to go still
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Feature creep maybe, but I think it'd benefit from a vaulting or mantling system. like Limbo just so the player doesn't look like they are rubbing their chests on walls etc. It would no doubt make the platforming aspect feel much more fluid. /nitpick
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Shalinor posted:It's based off of the default zoom level used in Shadow Complex.
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