Furs in the games industry Meet'n'Greet
Posted by foxb (Foxb) on Thu, 2008-01-24 13:40
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Hey guys and gals, I know that there a fair few of us involved in making games and wanted to see if anyone out there would be interested in having a get together to talk about the games industry, furry, and how to take over the world! This would primarily be aimed at those employed by a games studio/developer/publisher but thats the only prerequisite really. Wether you're a Designer, Programmer, Artist, Sound editor, scripter, or photocopy assistant your more than welcome. Im not sure if we could request a convention room but if not then I'm more than happy to hold it in my hotel room or in the bar area. Anyone interested? |
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Location: Europe,Great Britain, England, Borehamwood
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Im a Game Designer, but the games ive designed have not come out yet but i want you to have a look out for a powerpointpresentation called Power.Point.Desktop! i will make a thread about it
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Actually, you're a data pirate, according to your entries in the LAN party thread. I'm sure you're looking for more hard work to rip off.
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I'll be there.
I'll a Mid Term level designer in Australia. We're currently working on a new AAA Wii game. [thats not a port or on any other system ether
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So it'll be interesting to meet up with that.
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permalinkRight now I'm working on a game book for furries that will be a superlink game book for the Mutants and Masterminds game. I am also trying to design a book for True20. I don't know how much that accounts for anything.
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You can definitely request a function room for an event of this type. Please click on the "Suggest a Panel" link to the left and provide information...you'll get a response back from me with a programming request form so that we can properly set up the event.
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I'm a software engineer at Vicarious Visions, working on the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Wii SKU. I've also spent two and a half years at EA Tiburon and am credited in Superman Returns: The Videogame (yeah, it sucked), NCAA '08, and Tiger Woods '08. I'd be more than happy to meet up with you folks and chillax, and I'd be more than happy to answer any questions that any non-industry folks have as well (to start things off, yes, you really do need a college degree, and no, everyone has a great idea for the next great videogame, no companies are interested in buying yours).
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Alright guys, I just put in the panel request - anyone in the videogame industry who would want to participate, sound off.
I'm envisioning something like the following:
Part 1, Introductions: Each person on the panel has 5-10 minutes to say who they are, where they work, what games they've worked on, how they got into the industry, and any advice for furs wanting to get into the industry.
Part 2, General Q&A: People ask questions and have them answered. Hooray!
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I would be interested in participating.
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G'day Dudes. Caroo here.
I work as a Full time level designer for a third party THQ studio. We are currently working on the upcoming Wii title 'De Blob'
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29765.html
I've been in level design for about 16 months now and have been enjoying every second of it. Game development is very hard work but it's a challenging, good kind of hard.
As a level designer at the studio I work in I’m, along with the other talented level designers reasonable for the design and grey boxing of levels, implementation of curtain systems into levels and Bug fixing/Consistency Checks.
I would love to speak on the panel if you guys would like me to talk on it. And BTW dude. I got into the industry with a home made folio and a lot of determination. No diplomas in these kangaroo’s paws. XD
Cheers.
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Well... maybe I should've been more specific. It's unlikely that someone would get into an *engineering* role with no degree. Design is arguably even more complex than engineering, as it can't be taught, so you have to be one of the lucky people to know it intuitively. XD
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This is more true.
At my place of work while degrees and diplomas aren’t the be all and end all. As fair as programming goes knowing C+ / C++ that is pretty much the requirement. Not only that but knowing how these systems work. Not just how to use them.
Good programmers are hard to come by as while most out of their university courses know C+, they have no idea as to how it actually operates. They know how to use the tool, they don't know what the tool is.
Art and Design is more an iffy thing. Level design is even less design theory and more the practical application of taking all these art and code assets and modules and trying to make something fun out of that. =D
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permalinkLocation: London, UK
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Yeh that sounds a good idea for a plan. I would say that maybe the initial 15 minutes works more of a simple meet & greet. Be nice to get to know the people in the room before the more formal stuff happens.
Well done with getting it requested on the panal list. I have been working 50 hour weeks over the last two months and this is the first time i have had to check back. x.x
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Well, I hear from KuddlePup that apparently some fellow on the west coast of the U.S. has already proposed a panel much in the same vein as this, and I'm currently waiting on whoever it is to get back to me as to whether or not other furs who are for-pay employees actively working on games in the industry itself will be allowed to answer questions and be part of the panel as well.
Hopefully whoever it is will speak up in this thread.
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Keep in mind that said person may not be an active member of the forums here, or a member at all. Not everyone who posts here actually goes to AC, and the ones who do represent a pretty small minority of the actual AC attendance.
Might want to ask KP if he can have this other person email you or something, if you'd like to collaborate or whatever.
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Nobody has a gun to the guy's head to keep him from registering on these forums, and given the interest in the panel amongst other furs in the industry it would actually be a pretty good idea for whoever it is to register and actively participate in the discussion.
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permalinkLocation: Washington DC
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You I want to meet. I'm not interested in being on the panel (since I'm not qualified, yet) but I have so many questions....
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I've contact info in my profile if you'd rather ask questions now.
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permalinkLocation: Austin, TX
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I'm a software engineer at KingsIsle Entertainment and would be glad to partake in such an event. I've been in the industry a little more than a year now and have no shipped titles under my belt as of yet. Can't say what I'm working on now other than it's an MMO, unfortunately, but you know the drill.
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Oi! Strangely enough I found the second thread of this first. Although I've posted this question in that forum already, it seems to not see much response. So here's the question, what about those of us who are in the video game movie scene?
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Video game movies? You mean like speed-runs, playthroughs and the like? I'm not sure how that would fit into the panel given its intentions of being Q&A with furs in the game industry itself, to be honest.
Were speedrunners, etc. to be invited onto the panel, I fear it would start a slippery slope consisting of people who work on board games, pen-and-paper RPGs, people who draw fanart, people who compose MIDI renditions of game themes, people who write articles for GameFAQs, and so on, when (in my opinion) none of it is necessarily appropriate for a panel that would involve Q&A on how to get into the industry and so on.
If you mean things like documentaries about video games, I'm not necessarily sure it'd be appropriate for a panel dealing primarily in how to get into the video game industry rather than other media; however, if you can clarify what you mean by "video game movie industry", and KuddlePup can get whoever it is that has supposedly already suggested an industry meet-and-greet Q&A panel to post in this thread, you might find your way onto the panel.
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permalinkLocation: NY state, USA
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In all fairness the real answer is "none of the above". I'm talking about full length feature movies based on video games. Think of the likes of Tomb Raider, Doom, Silent Hill, Super Mario Bros, and Street Fighter. Allow me to show you the site to further illustrate the point.
www.x-strikestudios.com
I guess you could call us fans, but what we are is a low budget film company that produces dvds of the movies we make essentially for company profit. Poke around the web site and let me know what you think.
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I guess I'm having trouble figuring out where it would fit into a panel pertaining to furs who work on video games for a living. This sounds more appropriate for a furs-in-movies panel - "Furs 'n Films" or something.
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Word! Figured I'd ask, I know it can be a grey area sometimes.
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This is slightly off topic, but woah! I saw River City Rumble a few years ago when one of my friends, who went to Fredonia University at the time, showed it to me. I love that movie, and I saw a little of Silent Horror, and Nth Mile, and I liked those too. Awesome movies! Keep up the good work!
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Edit: I hate this board software; if you click on the "Reply" button next to someone's post and you aren't logged in, after you log in it will bring you to a reply box that ends up putting your reply as a reply to the original topic starter.
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permalinkI have done a little freelance work for the D20 System. I wrote a few spells that got into Sword and Sorcery Studios's Relics and Rituals 2. Haven't had anything published since then but I am writing an article for Palladium's Rifter magazine as well as doing on and off work on a furry Iron Age style campaign setting book for Green Ronin's Mutants and Masterminds. The gaming industry is something I am a peripheral part of but want to do more with. But the part of the gaming industry that I am looking to get more into it when I get get projects done in my own help.
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permalinkHello fellas! I'm looking to get into the gaming industry actually. I am currently 17 but I started doing 3D modeling and textures sense I was 16. Ive been taking college courses. But Id love to come in and watch what others have to say. I plan on continuing to do modeling, as well as C++ programming and animation
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Reeeeeealllllyyyy....
I'd like to talk to you at the Con. I have a project that I would like to keep handled within the fandom. Something special for us all. A modeler would be most useful.
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permalinkHehe, sounds good =) You can see some of the stuff I made for the class, like projects and whatnot, and random stuff, here: http://assassin2684.deviantart.com/ But yeah, I will definatly come to this! Just gotta let me know when and where hehe.
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permalinkI work on Audio Design for games, and will have a programmer and several artists at the con with me who are working on a game project - let us know if you do have this meet!
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So many people of interest to me.
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You're a bit late to be added to the panel participants, but yeah, we should definitely grab a couple drinks sometime before the panel.
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permalinkWhen/where is the panel?
We'll have 2-4 people from our team there.
I'm starting a new contract with EA next week, woot.
RL
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The panel itself will be in Allegheny 1 from 3PM to 4PM on Friday. No idea where the meet is going to be, though.
Also, good luck with EA. Contractors are treated halfway decently, but I'd sooner choke on something unmentionable before I'd ever go back to work for Tiburon as a salaried employee.
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permalinkLocation: London, UK
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I will be posting a sign up on the noticeboard about the "Game Maker Furs" and when we can have our meet up. My initial thoughts are that we have it on the Thursday at about 1 > 2 and we could all "do lunch".
Check on the notice board for details of when and where!
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Hey.. I'm actually at North Carolina State University getting my B.S. in Computer Science. My plan is to land a job as a game programmer when I get out of school.
Are you guys allowing only those that are actually in the job field to the meet-up or is it for anyone that might have an interest in the job field?
Thanks.
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