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JAMES MCGINLEY (mcginle@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca) wrote:
: I assume the following questions have been asked hundreds of times but I'm new
: to this group. Anyways, bear with me while I ask :
: 1. Has someone compiled a list of addresses of companies that make games?
:      If you could send it to me - or post it - I would appreciate it.
: 2. What are the chances of getting hired at these companies?
: 3. What is the standard background of most game programmers (i.e. Do you
:      need a computer science degree? Do you need an art background?
:      Are the big name programmers today the same people that started out
:      programming commercial Atari games?)
: 4. Do you need to have a shareware game to get looked at?
: 5. Are there any computer game making companies in Canada?
: 6. Do I have a hope in hell of getting into the video game industry?
: 
: Any information at all on anything (I'll even take unsubstantiated opinions)
: would be fantastique. I (along with everybody else here I presume) would
: love a job programming computer games.
: 
: Thanks a million,
: Jim 'I'm doomed to work at a bank' McGinley
: 
: P.S. Thanks for all the help everyone gave me about redefining characters!

I think that I quite agree with him.  But what is the competition and
marketableness of people like us?  I'm sure there are a lot of people
out there looking for these type of jobs.  



Nico.
Department of Information Systems and Computer Science,
National University of Singapore.