[TRENCHES] Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - A Comic About Ideas

Geth

A Comic About Ideas
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/a-comic-about-ideas

That’s All Well and Good, But…

Anonymous

Like so many people, I love games and dreamed of joining the game development industry.

In college I studied programming, gained experience building games and apps for Flash and on the iPhone, and applied for game development internships and jobs. After several false starts where entry-level game dev jobs were downsized out from under me, I ended up as an insurance salesman; it was kind of depressing!

However, insurance sales provided a stable income. One day I realized that I could probably live off of my savings for about one year while I tried to find a job as a game developer. After the thought hit me I could not shake it! If I couldn’t get a game development position, I could probably go back into sales later.

I moved to Seattle, where the game industry seemed healthier, then spent most of my time applying to jobs and creating simple games for my portfolio. I emphasized these games in my applications, but for a long time I did not receive many callbacks. I purchased StarCraft II and began playing it to keep my spirits up. I became reasonably good, winning a small amateur tournament.

Out of the blue I received a strange email from a headhunter. She told me that, sure, I could program and I had built a few games, and that was nice, but could I play StarCraft II at a high level? I wanted to know if she was joking.

I came in for an interview, defeated a few members of the design team, and talked for a while about the current state of StarCraft II’s competitive multiplayer balance. They hired me and I spent the last thoroughly enjoyable year as a member of that design team.

“So, how have you liked the year that you’ve been here in Seattle?” recently asked the supervisor who had hired me.

“Two years. I spent a year building and publishing little Flash and iPhone games out of my apartment. That was at the top of my resume!”

“...Really? Oh. I hadn’t ever noticed that. How funny!”

Clearly, I had been approaching the job hunt all wrong. Please excuse me while I update my resume.

Experienced princess rescuer, reliable zombocalypse survivor, avid prophesied hero…

Taskman

Skintone Phone.

Chris FOM

I really dislike the new design for Gwen and this story arc isn't doing much for my anywhere, but the back half of today's Tale is one of my favorites.

kedinik

Chris FOM wrote: »

I really dislike the new design for Gwen and this story arc isn't doing much for my anywhere, but the back half of today's Tale is one of my favorites.

Hey, they used my story.

Glad you liked it,

michaelkdaw

I nearly lol'd at this one. It's pretty much the same as every college kid the night before a final exam.

someboddy

Trench Tale by Mary Sue

milski

That thing where you skip the first 30% of a youtube video can easily apply to resumes, especially if they are formatted "poorly" (in quotes because it doesn't necessarily imply obviously and highly visible poor design). Plus, it seems like things were very informal, so I mean... forgetting the headliner of a resume (or really any part) isn't that weird?