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Terin

#21 June 07, 2008, 02:19:49 pm

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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.

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Supra Mairo

#22 June 07, 2008, 06:25:08 pm

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Quote from: rydia_fan on June 07, 2008, 01:57:54 pm

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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#23 June 07, 2008, 06:30:09 pm

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Congratulations, sounds like a good opportunity and all that jazz.

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#24 June 07, 2008, 06:32:07 pm

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Congratulations, sounds like a great opportunity and all that stuff.

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Bill Murray

#25 June 07, 2008, 06:34:05 pm

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Man, that even confused me then.

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#26 June 07, 2008, 06:35:55 pm

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Quote from: Supra Mairo on June 07, 2008, 06:25:08 pm

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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rydia_fan

#27 June 07, 2008, 10:53:55 pm

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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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hima

#28 June 08, 2008, 03:52:24 am

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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 ^ ^;;

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#29 June 08, 2008, 07:02:46 pm

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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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hero_bash

#30 June 08, 2008, 08:31:49 pm

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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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Haunted-House

#31 June 08, 2008, 11:11:20 pm

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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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The Illusionist

#32 June 09, 2008, 06:22:29 am

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Hey I'm real happy to hear this Rydia_Fan (I don't want to expose your re...al name

).

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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maladroithim

#33 June 09, 2008, 06:10:13 pm

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Quote from: Supra Mairo on June 07, 2008, 06:25:08 pm

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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Death Gulp

#34 June 09, 2008, 10:57:50 pm

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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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#35 June 10, 2008, 02:35:05 am

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Quote from: Terin on June 07, 2008, 02:19:49 pm

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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#36 June 10, 2008, 02:37:18 am

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Quote from: maladroithim on June 09, 2008, 06:10:13 pm

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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DoctorEars

#37 June 10, 2008, 09:22:13 am

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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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Lyric

#38 June 10, 2008, 10:28:37 pm

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Congrats! Job well done!

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