TL;DR: experienced CEO/CTO/TechDirector with long background in programming, sales, and business management (Corporate, iPhone/Android, Games, Education) looking for strategic roles in USA, UK, and Asia. After a year-out to do a post-graduate degree in Education, I’m looking for something new and exciting to do next. My primary goal is to […]
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I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but it’s come up again on Reddit, so here’s my thoughts… IANAL, but … I have been offered more than 100 NDA’s, both as an individual and working in large companies (including a games publisher, and including a funding team). I have signed […]
Much time has passed, and the guilty are probably not reading this blog any more, so I figured I’d go ahead and post this one without fear of upsetting them… Adam’s Hints to Recruitment Agents #72: “if you need an expert, urgently (e.g. within 1 week) … there are some […]
In the games industry – especially in the UK – big employers have spent the past 10 years claiming there is a “skills gap” – that not enough people are being “trained by universities” (which shows how stupid the speakers were; Universities don’t do training, and most never will – […]
How about this one: http://sainsburys.jobs/vacancy/details/35959/games-buyer-at-london A “buyer” for Sainsburys: you get to influence the titles stocked by one of the UK’s biggest retailers. I’ve never – ever! – met a games-buyer before, but I know quite a few buyers for more mainstream areas (clothing, fashion, etc), and so long as […]
This is from 4 years ago, courtesy of Steve Yegge. I just came across it by accident, it’s wonderfully well written, but one bit caught my attention in particular: “First, you can’t tell interviewers what’s important. Not at any company. Not unless they’re specifically asking you for advice.” Wait – […]
No link provided, but should be easy to find the studio email HR address: “Hi All, I’m looking for a QA person to join us at Zoe Mode. I need someone with experience as I need QA for multiple titles of different genres. A sense of rhythm will help. Please […]
Please email me (adam at red-glasses.com) if you have skills / interest in the following: Mass market (i.e. everyone + their mom) telling stories javascript frameworks for complex visual 2D stuff (e.g. iGoogle, Netvibes, etc) Visual manipulation of large 2D images on mobile (especially iPhone) NB: we have no funding […]
Seems a bit Freudian to me. According to Clint, Viking aggression wasn’t caused by eking out a bitter existence in freezing lands without enough farmland and food – a need to cull the local population, and take food from elsewhere to survive – but instead by the fact that all […]
Background A month ago, PC Gamer reported that “The idea that crunch wasn’t all that productive was raised, but there was enough experience in the room to shoot it down. “. I found that unacceptable, both as a concept, and as something for the media to report without challenging it. […]
Relatively new. I had a brief look, seems to be a fair number of “entry-level” art jobs, as well as standard full-time roles: http://jobs.conceptart.org/
One of those things that most business people don’t talk about unless prodded. I’m not sure why, but I assume it’s one aspect of the fear “don’t burn any bridges; don’t let anyone think you can be nasty; don’t let anyone see you’re human”. None of which are healthy, long-term […]
Most “gamification” achievements I couldn’t care less about (and this is the Dirty Secret of gamification – most consumers don’t care), … but this is one of the few that I do: (and I post this in the full knowledge that it’s possible to game (i.e. cheat) your way to […]
…trip someone over, or … Help them stand? Visiting London, this question comes up a lot. Just now, I was on a train where as we pulled into the station the driver announced that the train on the neighbouring platform was the Express train to same final destination; he encouraged […]
“We are looking for a passionate and experienced individual to help with the design construction and maintenance of a variety of web-based entertainment and social media game service” This being Blitz, the job is of course in Leamington Spa, which rules it out for most people :(. But if you’re […]
On twitter the other day (but Twitter’s crashing at the moment, so I can’t find the original author). Coincidentally, came up in a private games-industry forum today too, where someone was actually trying to argue it’s a *good thing* that their employer pays below-standard wages for all engineering staff. WTF? […]
If you’re working in web/games/etc, please fill out the short survey on salary, contractor rates, project size, etc Once the survey is closed, the writeup will appear here – feel free to bookmark this page! Until this, this is a HOLDING PAGE POST to workaround a design flaw (and some […]
Here’s a long (long!) video interview with Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve (one of the biggest / most successful games companies). (incidentally: this post is shorter than intended. Someone at WordPress considered it acceptable to DELETE your post if your login cookie timesout before you hit the save button. Completely […]
Have you had emails like this recently? Urgent position – lead programmer I need an awesome programmer for this fantastic company based in X. It’s an amazing team – probably the best I’ve ever seen – real household names, and they’ve got a cool office, like nothing you’ve seen before. […]