Question, Part 1 - Hi Chris. This is my first year in college, and I’m currently a Computer Science [CS] major. However I came in with no prior programming experience, so the math and programming classes so far have been pretty tough. I am thinking about switching my major to something more enjoyable, and just… Read more »
Posts Tagged Early Career
Project Archivability
May 30, 2011PlayCrafter, an online videogame building site I helped build in 2007-2008, is now offline. (Project videos: Physics Puzzland, Matcheroo, Domino Shomimino). An effect of the site going offline is that the 130,000 videogames created on it are no longer playable, since the games referenced files and database entries on the server. Of course, fortunately, PlayCrafter… Read more »
Don’t Wait for an Event, Job, Contest, Assignment, Invitation, Business Plan, or Context
Dec 1, 2010This entry is the month’s “Advanced” article (in case the pattern isn’t apparent, every month I add one article for Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Special Topic). As such, I’m assuming here – contrary to the assumption made by 1/2-3/4 of the articles on this site – that you already know how to program in a… Read more »
Student Seeking Job
Feb 27, 2010Q: I’m a game design student. What can I do to help my chances of landing a job? A: One of the things that can help set you apart from other students with similar credentials is to finish hobby games on the side, outside of what’s required by classes. There are a lot of students… Read more »
Game Developer Education
Jan 26, 2010Written 2 and a half years ago, while I was still a student between periods of employment in corporate videogame development (to clarify: I have been unaffiliated with that scale/type of game development since late 2007), this two-page letter offers brief answers to questions sent by a middle school student to Carnegie Mellon’s department of… Read more »