A gaming blog for Game Designer Steve Kramer (aka Saavedra)
Your description of what a game designer really is is a lot more inspiring to me than that commercial.Its ridiculous. We have a school here offering a 2 year degree in game design that is similar to that. It shows kids playing video games for like the whole commercial. What sort of lazy unmotivated people is that trying to bring into the industry? =/
You sound very bitter about your office space.
I'm not bitter at all, it's about reality. Do you think we all get replacement PCs every six months? My office looks just like every other boring office you ever saw with cubicles, except you see game stuff on the walls and game stuff on our screens. Trying to make our industry seem glamorous is silly.
yeah work is work regardless of the type of work it is. It is sad that they are trying to make it seem like an easy job when it actually takes a ton of skill... but then again perhaps next month a video will slip out on the net of the SOE devs drinking mountain dew and high fiving each other:P Just joking of course:P
I watched tha commercial and laughed. They don't mention the 60-80 hour work weeks or times you stay up all night waiting for a new build or times where a feature has to be cut due to time, and you have to think of something else ASAP. Any company is like that. When the game actually does come out, you're relived to see it. And then you go through it again. It's about as glamorous as a nosebleed.But nothing compares to that feeling of seeing people enjoy what you helped make. That's what I love.
Hey, I read them at the old blog too! But I like your new one a lot. =)
It's a jackass commercial, as if games are made by using just a game controller.Well, unless their engine is completely based off RPG Maker, then they might have a case. Otherwise... no.
Tighten up the graphics on level 3.
I go to this school and trust me, none of us are proud of that stupid commercial. I'm in the Film & Video program, but from what I've heard from the Game Design program, many of the students drop out probably due because they enter the program with the state of mind of that commercial.Whenever we (students and faculty) mention these commercials, we always laugh. The commercial is just a poor attempt to get students in.
We think that that commercial is completely ridiculous too, and we're not even game designers. Here's our take on that commercial - I hope it brings a smile to your face.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKy0JzX_4IEnjoy!
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Your description of what a game designer really is is a lot more inspiring to me than that commercial.
Its ridiculous. We have a school here offering a 2 year degree in game design that is similar to that. It shows kids playing video games for like the whole commercial. What sort of lazy unmotivated people is that trying to bring into the industry? =/
You sound very bitter about your office space.
I'm not bitter at all, it's about reality. Do you think we all get replacement PCs every six months?
My office looks just like every other boring office you ever saw with cubicles, except you see game stuff on the walls and game stuff on our screens. Trying to make our industry seem glamorous is silly.
yeah work is work regardless of the type of work it is. It is sad that they are trying to make it seem like an easy job when it actually takes a ton of skill... but then again perhaps next month a video will slip out on the net of the SOE devs drinking mountain dew and high fiving each other:P Just joking of course:P
I watched tha commercial and laughed.
They don't mention the 60-80 hour work weeks or times you stay up all night waiting for a new build or times where a feature has to be cut due to time, and you have to think of something else ASAP.
Any company is like that. When the game actually does come out, you're relived to see it. And then you go through it again. It's about as glamorous as a nosebleed.
But nothing compares to that feeling of seeing people enjoy what you helped make. That's what I love.
Hey, I read them at the old blog too! But I like your new one a lot. =)
It's a jackass commercial, as if games are made by using just a game controller.
Well, unless their engine is completely based off RPG Maker, then they might have a case.
Otherwise... no.
Tighten up the graphics on level 3.
I go to this school and trust me, none of us are proud of that stupid commercial. I'm in the Film & Video program, but from what I've heard from the Game Design program, many of the students drop out probably due because they enter the program with the state of mind of that commercial.
Whenever we (students and faculty) mention these commercials, we always laugh. The commercial is just a poor attempt to get students in.
We think that that commercial is completely ridiculous too, and we're not even game designers. Here's our take on that commercial - I hope it brings a smile to your face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKy0JzX_4I
Enjoy!
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