I thought I knew all about interviews in game development until I went to an eye-opening GDC 2009 talk moderated by Jim Rivers of Obsidan Entertainment on “How did the interview go?”. The 3 panellists, James Schomer of Cryptic Studios, Samantha Petro of Namco Networks and Grant Shonkwiler of Merit Entertainment revealed what, to them typically, was [...]
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“For the middleman, the clock is ticking and the question of value is looming”, says Jeff Jarvis in his excellent book, WWGD What Would Google Do? ” Every time Google makes a direct connection, a middleman’s value is diminished. If you make your living telling people what they cannot do because you control resources or [...] Sony announced yesterday that they upgraded their cross platform engine, the PhyreEngine, to version 2.40. New features included ‘foliage rendering’, which allows for more ultra-realistic trees and leaves, best seen in the PSN exclusive title, Flower. For gamers though, the bigger news is that Sony has seemingly unveiled 4 unheard of which are all using [...] And also ask that the fees not be paid if the advice provided does not work 100% in the six weeks following the provision of the advice? I dont think so. I certainly would not do the same and expect the same level of service from a recruiter. Recruiting like lawyering is a professional service. And [...] Professional Electronic Entertainment Recruiters (PEER) is the games industry trade association comprised of recruiters committed to serving better the games industry. All PEER members stand by the association’s Charter Agreement which demands the highest professional recruiting standards and practices. The 11 strong membership represent the “cream” of game recruiters with quality candidates being delivered to clients in line with the [...] Interactive Selection returns to San Francisco from Wednesday 24th to Friday 27th March so if you would like to catch up with the first and only global games recruiter, we would be pleased to meet up. We strive hard to help clients all around the world. In the last 12 months we have placed development [...] The successful candidate will work within a team of engineers at Ubisoft Entertainment implementing online features for their games that meet the requirements of the project’s Creative Director and Technical Lead. As an experienced engineer this person will be responsible for designing and implementing the technology required for significant online features. These could include networked [...] So says Rohit Talwar, Futurist & CEO of Fast Future, to the Elite Group of Recruiters including David Smith of Interactive Selection last week. We all have an “extended fan club” out there locally and in cyberspace. These contacts can be good at generating new opportunities provided that they know that you are interested in [...] British Senior Artist working in Australia is offered a job for a game developer in mainland Europe that he really likes. Brit is getting married shortly. The company knows this and is happy for him. Candidate thinks it would be good for his future wife to be able to work in Europe but this is [...] |
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