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I mean this in the nicest possible way: I suggest you save us both some time: have a look at my LinkedIn profile, and see what I’ve done – http://www.linkedin.com/in/adammartin – it’s shorter and clearer than a CV/Resume, too. If you find that you have something that would interest me, […]
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(today Lorien joins previous awardee Aardvark Swift) There’s an insidious new form of spam on LinkedIn: people posting job ads on the linkedin forums. This is particularly stupid because you lose all the benefits of LI’s built-in job search system. I saw a great one today from Lorien plc (clearly, […]
Hi! My name is “Adam” (first name) “Martin” (surname); you might need to check the spelling. You might want to check which is the first name, which the surname – funny how many recruiters get it wrong! You’ve probably cold-emailed me because you got my email address somewhere – maybe […]
Gamasutra’s just posted an Opinion piece (so it’s not GS’s position, they’re just giving air-time to the author) about the interview process for getting a job in the video game industry. Right up-front the author states that one of the three aims of the employer is: “To pay as little […]
Oh, wait, actually they’re not. But people love to misinterpret statements with the word Google and the number 20 in them. As I put in the comments: Frankly, I’ve generally not bothered to correct anyone who didn’t bother to research it themselves – except in the cases where they were […]
Given how much money these agencies charge – and how that SPECIFICALLY reduces the chances of “good but not great” candidates of getting job offers (anyone who says otherwise is a liar or naive) – I’m fed up of their mediocrity and the lack of criticism it gets. So, I’ve […]
On this site I have a rather subtly-hidden Blog Roll. When I started blogging, the site had less on it, and the roll was easy to find – and short. Now it’s not. And it’s long. And each link on there has been carefully considered. There’s some gems in there […]
(this is part 2 of Publishers are from Mars, Developers are from Venus) Last time I said that “good Developers are very similar to Valley Technology Startups”, which suggests one obvious way things could develop: Publishers to become Venture Capitalists; Developers to become commodities In this model, the Publishers spend […]
Over the last few years, there has been a big shift in power and success away from independent studios, and towards in-house, publisher-owned studios. This has been driven by several things, sound economic reasons, competitive reasons, and because the strong independent studios had done a good job at creating a […]
I finally realized the answer to something that had been bothering me for years: why is it that so many “good” companies pay such small referral bonuses (the cash payed to an employee when they successfully find a friend/ex-colleague/etc to fill an open position at the company) ?
Summary Speakers: Karen Chelini, SCEA; Jason Pankow, Microsoft; Matthew Jeffrey, EA I didn’t stay more than about half the session – my laptop battery ran out, so I couldn’t take any more notes. I’m writing this up really only because there was one key point that came up which illustrates […]
The following are hand-picked sections from the syllabus of the 3-year Cambridge University CS course. These are just syllabus, i.e. describing what you need to learn / teach yourself.
How do you create a new game studio from scratch? The topic came up recently when someone asked me what I’d do if I had the responsibility to create a new dev studio – what would I do, how would I go about it, etc? I’ve founded a couple of […]
We didn’t quite get the sunny afternoon we were hoping for, but we did get some nice light …so we had to move inside, but we still had a great turnout of people And it’s nice to have a games-industry recruitment event right on the beach, by the sea, for […]
NCsoft Europe, publisher of award winning online games such as City of Heroes and Guild Wars is searching for skilled individuals to join a growing internal development team. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, a casual work environment and the seaside just 10 minutes walk from the office! To coincide […]
Senior Network Developer “NCsoft is one of the world’s biggest online gaming companies, a major developer and publisher in Asia, America, and Europe. We need an expert in online games development – from low-level network programming to multithreaded server code. This role is in our UK studio, in Brighton. The […]