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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: rydia_fan on June 07, 2008, 12:07:25 am
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Well I know I haven't posted here in a long time, but I do look in from time to time. I've moved many times in the past 4 months and I'm moving again in a couple weeks so I'll be able to walk to work during my internship.
After working on my portfolio all the time and submitting more than a few applications, I've landed an internship at a game company that makes Nintendo DS games and mobile phone games. Not only do I get to do 2d work, but 3D work as well. Hopefully, if I do well enough, they'll keep me on full time after 3 months. I've met the people I'll be working with and they seem very friendly. I'm really looking forward to learning better ways to do things for my 3D work.
Anyway, I'm very excited and just felt like sharing this.
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Haha, no way! This is pretty awesome, congratulations.
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Ooh, grats! Don't forget to post alot of sneak-previews for us once you get the ball running.. erm.. or something.
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BlindMind is drooling right now...
Also congratulations! This is pretty rad. Cool to see another member make it into the big leagues heh You're a player now. Get it? Player.. heh
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Ooh, grats! Don't forget to post alot of sneak-previews for us once you get the ball running.. erm.. or something.
I would if I could, but I'm not allowed to give out information about games before they're released to the public. My friends that work at game companies had to have me sign a affidavit before they could tell me or show me anything about their games. As a matter of fact - I got to play Conan for the XBOX 360 before it came out, but I couldn't say anything about that either :(.
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Cool! I go to school in the DFW area (Denton to be precise). Good luck with your new work.
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Send me free games!!!
This is pretty sweet dude. Congrats. I hope to see your name in the credits sometime :)
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Hey, congrats. When you big gimme yo autograph.
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Well, I always remembered that you were easily one of the best pixel artists in the community, so this isn't really much of a surprise to me. Congratulations, in any case!
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Make sure to work your ass off and keep yourself in the know of the company, and try to know (without being pushy) what everyone is doing.
Grats.
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Hey, could you show us some of your current works or perhaps past works?
i bet the coders there are like those collins college commercials where dey be sittin on the couch playin games
you can program all games sittin on the couch with a ps1 controller -fact
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A good amount of my stuff is on my portfolio site(which should be in my signature). I haven't done a lot of pixel art since I've posted here, so you'd probably see the most improvement on my CG and 3D skills. Of course, one of the big reasons I got the internship was for my pixel art skills, which are definitely more impressive.
Here's some links to some I've done recently:
Be warned, I don't know how fast they'll load.
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Man I loved your Pixel Art, been trying to improve in that department for the past few months, if I ever get nearly as good as you I'll be happy!
Seriously congratz though, ID is a pretty cool company and if I ever get a DS or Cell Phone I'll be sure to get one of the games you contributed in. :happy:
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Awesome, congrats! I like your pixel work, especially the tilesets. Especially stuff like this:
http://myweb.csuchico.edu/~lkester/pixel-art-forest-outside-tileset.html
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Awesome stuff! After a few weeks or months in there you could write something about your experience so far! Nothing that would infringe on your non-disclosure agreement, just your overall experience on how stuff works there. I'm sure many would be very interested. Good luck with your career!
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Wow, that's really exciting! Congratulations. I don't usually hear about too many people that make it this far in game dev stuff.
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Congrats man! After the internship maybe you could do a writeup about your time.
Your stuff is great as well, the pictures above.
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is it a paid internship or do you have to work a second deadbeat job to pay for the ridiculously expensive lake-front apartment?
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Yes, they are paying me $9/h (which is good since I told them I'd take anything that would cover gas - minium wage here is about $5.50/h). The apartment is only a little more expensive than the other places around here (it was the cheapest one in town). It's about $650 a month + electricity. My wage more than covers it and my boyfriend works too. They said I'd get an evaluation after my 3 months. If I'm kept on, I'm sure I'll get a pretty good raise.
Oh, yeah, if you guys wanted some kind of write up about the experience after I'm done, I think I could do that.
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That's very cool. Congratulations on the internship.
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Sounds pretty cool. ID is a good place to work for -- not sure about their mobile division yet, but I've had somewhat of the pleasure of bumping into Carmack and his wife before when I was visiting at a tournament for martial arts at Mesquite. I remember when he talked sometimes, I felt like I had no idea what he was talking about. Multiple-vertex-ninja-cast-polysynthetic-rasterization-quantification-axis-refresh technology. Blew my mind.
However, I remember him really being pretty beefed up about the mobile arena for games (I remember asking "How in the world can you pull that off? Phones suck. Nobody would buy it.") Then he was showing me his wife's PDA and how complex it could get. It had promise, but I wasn't too optimistic...
Low and behold, 4-5 years later it's somewhat of a viable market.
--Terin
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It's about $650 a month + electricity.
I don't want to lead this discussion offtopic or anything but is this like an average/normal rent? Like how big is the appartment because I live in a appartment that is could prolly house 2 people in it but I only pay 280€ rent +water/electricity/internet which is about total of 50€ /month.
I'm just curious because 650$ seems a bit high and we are talking about USD (?) so its not like the value of the currency is too different.
Anyways congrats and all that, I think its a great opportunity to start if you really want into the business.
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Congratulations, sounds like a good opportunity and all that jazz.
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Congratulations, sounds like a great opportunity and all that stuff.
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Man, that even confused me then.
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I don't want to lead this discussion offtopic or anything but is this like an average/normal rent? Like how big is the appartment because I live in a appartment that is could prolly house 2 people in it but I only pay 280€ rent +water/electricity/internet which is about total of 50€ /month.
I'm just curious because 650$ seems a bit high and we are talking about USD (?) so its not like the value of the currency is too different.
Anyways congrats and all that, I think its a great opportunity to start if you really want into the business.
Yeah that's pretty standard in big cities in the US.
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Actually, I'm originally from California and the rent in the big cities there is WAY more expensive than what I'm paying here. I mean this is a good sized apartment with tennis courts, a fitness center, a couple pools, and it's about two miles from the lake. Back home this could have ran in the $1,300-1,800 in the big cities. That's one of the reasons I moved to Texas. I am moving to a more upper class type town for the Dallas area, but it's still pretty reasonable.
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Congratulation! And please, write up your experience after your internship for us. I want to get into a video game company too, but being in the third world country that gaming isn't a big thing, it's difficult for me. So I'm thinking about going abroad ^ ^;;
Hope you have a good time with your internship!
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Congrats, this is very cool and I hope you'll make it full time.
Maybe at one point GW gets to interview you for the blog...
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Wow. that's pretty cool, I hope more GW mebers would get to have successful jobs in mainstream game making...
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Congratulations rydia_fan! I too would be interested to here about your experiences in id's mobile division.
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Hey I'm real happy to hear this Rydia_Fan (I don't want to expose your re...al name :D).
I hope this place suits your need and I'll be happy to help in anyway you need. I guess we can't still work together but we sort of got disconnected :).
I'll send you some duckets though when I can something online!
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I don't want to lead this discussion offtopic or anything but is this like an average/normal rent? Like how big is the appartment because I live in a appartment that is could prolly house 2 people in it but I only pay 280€ rent +water/electricity/internet which is about total of 50€ /month.
I'm just curious because 650$ seems a bit high and we are talking about USD (?) so its not like the value of the currency is too different.
Thread derail!
Anyway we have talked about this in other threads at GW but rent/housing in America is criminally expensive and always has been. It's why we work so many more hours per week than Europeans do (and why we are all fat and miserable).
Anyway congrats girl!
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Congrats dude, lot's of people dream of doing this stuff but dont actually do it. Good job
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Sounds pretty cool. ID is a good place to work for -- not sure about their mobile division yet, but I've had somewhat of the pleasure of bumping into Carmack and his wife before when I was visiting at a tournament for martial arts at Mesquite. I remember when he talked sometimes, I felt like I had no idea what he was talking about. Multiple-vertex-ninja-cast-polysynthetic-rasterization-quantification-axis-refresh technology. Blew my mind.
However, I remember him really being pretty beefed up about the mobile arena for games (I remember asking "How in the world can you pull that off? Phones suck. Nobody would buy it.") Then he was showing me his wife's PDA and how complex it could get. It had promise, but I wasn't too optimistic...
Low and behold, 4-5 years later it's somewhat of a viable market.
--Terin
That's actually pretty cool. I'm interested to see what the mobile phone industry has to put out for future videogames. I think it'd be interesting to see online multiplayer with mobile phones. Oh god, imagine the bills...
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Thread derail!
Anyway we have talked about this in other threads at GW but rent/housing in America is criminally expensive and always has been. It's why we work so many more hours per week than Europeans do (and why we are all fat and miserable).
Anyway congrats girl!
is this really true? i live in cleveland which isn't the most expensive city to live in, and i don't know much about european rent costs, but i've always gotten the impression that living in a european city was, if anything, MORE expensive than living in most american ones.
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Whoah this is awesome Rydia_Fan, congratulations. You'll have to tell us all what games you worked on once they get announced or released. It'd be awesome to play something knowing someone from GW participated in creating it.
Again, congratulations.
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Congrats! Job well done!