Puppet Update ::: 14-Mar-2005
I've out on the sunny west coast for a week, without decent Internet connection. I can see that this whole blog goes belly up when I'm not here. More than a week Without a post?
I interviewed at EA. I didn't feel it went as well as my previous couple interviews, so we'll see. I got an email a couple days later from someone I knew (barely) from my internship there. He's leading the Godfather game project. He asked if I would be willing to take a temp position and could I start in 5 days (that would be today, Monday). I replied that I needed to give notice at my current temp job and that I was hesitant to take a temp job when I've been offered full-time "real" jobs from other companies.
I got preliminary interviews with Midway (to work on the next Mortal Kombat game, sounded promising. They are in IL) and Intel (to work on Graphic demos/tests). I'm not sure how I got into an interview with the Intel guy, it all happened very fast and he shut the door behind me... Somehow I got roped into taking an open book exam this Thursday for Intel. Should be interesting.
I also talked to several other game companies that will hopefully be in touch with me. Including Volition (the Chicago company), Cryptic Studios (City of Heros), Rainbow Studios, and others. I tried to talk to Blizzard and Bioware but they wanted people with more experience.
Gabriel (the Indy game company) and BBN (the military training sim company) have practically made me offers without explicitly calling it such (can somebody tell me if this is how this is supposed to work?).
There was one guy last year who really bashed eXtreme Demolition at the Game Dev Conference. He runs (sorta) the company that we got our game engine from. Oddly enough he stepped up next to me at the urinals this year, one of the most terrifying moments of my life...
I got to visit my sister (Joy) while out in CA. She seemed to be doing well. She and who husband (Syndael) have a kid (about 16 months old now, named V'lad, yes the ' is part of his official name). Syndael is a nickname he gave himself, his real name is Josh, and he also has a sister named Joy. Small world I guess.
If anyone is still reading this blog, PLEASE, let's not let it die just yet. Surely you guys have something to post about. Give us an update on you life or the floor, write a funny story, insult geoff, or SOMETHING!
I interviewed at EA. I didn't feel it went as well as my previous couple interviews, so we'll see. I got an email a couple days later from someone I knew (barely) from my internship there. He's leading the Godfather game project. He asked if I would be willing to take a temp position and could I start in 5 days (that would be today, Monday). I replied that I needed to give notice at my current temp job and that I was hesitant to take a temp job when I've been offered full-time "real" jobs from other companies.
I got preliminary interviews with Midway (to work on the next Mortal Kombat game, sounded promising. They are in IL) and Intel (to work on Graphic demos/tests). I'm not sure how I got into an interview with the Intel guy, it all happened very fast and he shut the door behind me... Somehow I got roped into taking an open book exam this Thursday for Intel. Should be interesting.
I also talked to several other game companies that will hopefully be in touch with me. Including Volition (the Chicago company), Cryptic Studios (City of Heros), Rainbow Studios, and others. I tried to talk to Blizzard and Bioware but they wanted people with more experience.
Gabriel (the Indy game company) and BBN (the military training sim company) have practically made me offers without explicitly calling it such (can somebody tell me if this is how this is supposed to work?).
There was one guy last year who really bashed eXtreme Demolition at the Game Dev Conference. He runs (sorta) the company that we got our game engine from. Oddly enough he stepped up next to me at the urinals this year, one of the most terrifying moments of my life...
I got to visit my sister (Joy) while out in CA. She seemed to be doing well. She and who husband (Syndael) have a kid (about 16 months old now, named V'lad, yes the ' is part of his official name). Syndael is a nickname he gave himself, his real name is Josh, and he also has a sister named Joy. Small world I guess.
If anyone is still reading this blog, PLEASE, let's not let it die just yet. Surely you guys have something to post about. Give us an update on you life or the floor, write a funny story, insult geoff, or SOMETHING!
posted by rkstormer @ 4:08 PM
3 Comments:
At 12:00 AM,
Hedrick said…
Does anyone realize that Volition is responsible for "Summoner Geeks?" How amazing is that? Can I have a MOUNTAIN DEW?
At 9:48 AM,
rkstormer said…
"Open book exam" They email me a test and I have a certain amount of time to complete it and send it back. I had to do this to get an interview with EA before also.
Sorry, I believe Volition is in Champagne, not Chicago. That'd be sweet if we both ended up there. I haven't heard anything either though.
Your analysis of the urination was hilarious, Maddog. (never thought I'd say that)
Summoner geeks was this funny short film showing people (and an ogre[?]) playing some pen and paper role playing game. The ogre thing wanted a Mountain Dew the whole time. Also someone had a Ogre Knife +9 as I recall. I didn't realise Volition was responsible for that. Cool. Was it supposed to be some kind of advertisement for them?
At 9:50 AM,
rkstormer said…
EA update. Well, the interviews at EA must have gone as bad as I feared (I was ill that day and feeling pretty bad). EA has turned me down unless I want to try to pursue that temp offer.
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