Comments on: Give Blood 1. Thanks for the shout-out about my son's apprenticeship. We finished up over the weekend and into late last night (his first crunch for a deliverable!). Check back on my blog later this week for a write-up. 2. Clearly, I'm a few weeks behind reading ADBAD. :) 3. You seem to me to be doing all the right things. You're clearly passionate -- the fact that you are here, posting alongside a lot of pros, speaks highly of your initiative. Personally, I feel that the well-roundedness of a full-on liberal arts education will serve you better in the long run, as you'll be exposed to a wider variety of ways and means of thinking, if that makes any sense, and that flexibility will serve you well. Although I've programmed computers almost my life, I didn't have any formal education in them until after college (grad school) and I only sort of fumbled my way into the industry -- I think I posted about that at one point on my blog so you can hunt that down if you're interested. In any case, I'm a little bit busy to comment further here, but if you'd like to get in touch via email for questions, whatever, by all means do so. I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in joining this great industry, so long as I can fit it in. 1. Thanks for the shout-out about my son’s apprenticeship. We finished up over the weekend and into late last night (his first crunch for a deliverable!). Check back on my blog later this week for a write-up.

2. Clearly, I’m a few weeks behind reading ADBAD. :)

3. You seem to me to be doing all the right things. You’re clearly passionate — the fact that you are here, posting alongside a lot of pros, speaks highly of your initiative. Personally, I feel that the well-roundedness of a full-on liberal arts education will serve you better in the long run, as you’ll be exposed to a wider variety of ways and means of thinking, if that makes any sense, and that flexibility will serve you well. Although I’ve programmed computers almost my life, I didn’t have any formal education in them until after college (grad school) and I only sort of fumbled my way into the industry — I think I posted about that at one point on my blog so you can hunt that down if you’re interested.

In any case, I’m a little bit busy to comment further here, but if you’d like to get in touch via email for questions, whatever, by all means do so. I’m happy to chat with anyone interested in joining this great industry, so long as I can fit it in.

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By: Ben/2011/04/20/give-blood/#comment-3025 Ben Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:00:15 +0000 After spending a lot of nights at the lab with you and just watching your dedication overall, I'm glad you've finally hit this point. I hope you continue to push yourself, because, honestly, I don't know what your limitations are yet. If all the students in the program had your dedication, it <em>wouldn't</em> be hard to get a job in the game industry, but unfortunately, Jon stands alone atop the hill. The more time I spent around school the more I regretted that #gamedev isn't taken particularly seriously by the students who claim to be game developers. You proved me wrong on that one, Jon Moore. After spending a lot of nights at the lab with you and just watching your dedication overall, I’m glad you’ve finally hit this point. I hope you continue to push yourself, because, honestly, I don’t know what your limitations are yet. If all the students in the program had your dedication, it wouldn’t be hard to get a job in the game industry, but unfortunately, Jon stands alone atop the hill.

The more time I spent around school the more I regretted that #gamedev isn’t taken particularly seriously by the students who claim to be game developers. You proved me wrong on that one, Jon Moore.

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By: Geraldo Nascimento/2011/04/20/give-blood/#comment-3009 Geraldo Nascimento Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:44:20 +0000