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So… It’s been a while.
Life is good, excluding the torment of a dying molar, and not a whole lot has happened in this time of silence. Work has been good, but has not really been related to what I wanted to write about in this blog so I opted to stay quiet for a while.
Lately I started looking at available positions in various game companies and it was somewhat upsetting to notice that you are not really suited for filling any position other than as a junior. So I basically decided that I really needed to do something about my portfolio. It was a while back that I decided this, but there was Christmas and stuff in the way so I haven’t really started doing stuff until now. Now it has begun though.
The general idea is that I will simply implement all the various things I have always wanted to try and then post the results in the portfolio section (hopefully with some binaries as well). The types of thing I will be implementing will mostly be 3D graphics related, since this is the area I always seem to find myself drooling over. But there will also be some other stuff like resource management and so on.
I have already implemented the first thing I will be putting on the portfolio (relief mapping) and it will be going up there shortly (probably not today though). Other things to be expected, in the very near future, are things like, just to name a few: Parallax mapping, Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, Deferred rendering.
If one refuses to work for any other industry one can only blame themselves for not doing everything in their power to be worthy of working there.
Tags: 3D, Bad excuse for not blogging more often, deferred, deferred rendering, deferred shading, Game Programming, parallax map, parallax mapping, Portfolio, Programming, relief map, relief mapping, Screen space ambient occlusion, SSAO
Posted in 3D Programming, Life, Programming
Yeah so I went to the job meeting. 15 minutes into the meeting I got the job! So I am now a full time employee ( for 6 months at least ) at the xDelia project as a game programmer.
I start tomorrow already, so it is going a million miles an hour at the moment. I am headed over to Germany, Tuesday – Thursday, next week for some work related workshop as well. So lots of things happening indeed.
So now there’s lots to do. I need to fill out some papers for the educational part of school and report that I am taking a leave of absence. Then of course there is also contract signing and all matter of other stuff I need to fix with the job (have to hunt down a computer for my room, and then of course have someone tell me where my room is). Not to mention having to report to CSN my leave of absence as well so they’ll stop sending me money, but for some reason you need to know how much you will earn, which I don’t know yet, before you are allowed to report a leave of absence. Seems kind of silly to me.
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
Kinda how it feels. This will pretty much change everything I was doing. No more school for a while of course and iPhone coding will be put on the back-burner again. It is, however, all good. I get what I value most. Experience. With the economy as it is there is no way in Helsinki that any game company would hire someone that has no prior work experience. So this job will be worth a lot for my CV. Hopefully it will be for at least a year. Generally looks better in the resumé than 6 months, I say anyway.
So who’s turn is it next now then from Quantum Studios?
Tags: Blekinge, BTH, College, fresh prince lyrics, Game Programming, Germany, Högskola, I got an effin' job!, iPhone, Leave of Absence, Programming, Quantum Studios, xDelia
Posted in School, Work, iPhone
Yeah so I’m still full up with all the school assignments. My little web server is slowly getting somewhere, if it will be done within a reasonable amount of time is yet unknown.
I recieved what could seem to be a job offer the other day. I don’t really know what terms are involved yet (pay, hours, duration, etc) so trying to not get my hopes up. Going to meet up with the person that contacted me on tuesday and discuss it. Hopefully it will be something worthwhile. I really want an excuse to cut down on college for a while.
I really hope it will lead somewhere, but no point in obsessing about it until tuesday.
Back to C and continue with the web server a while longer.
Posted in School, Work
So I started on the web server assignment. I can tell already that this is gonna take plenty of hours to finish. So the plan is to continue working on that today. Hopefully I will learn something from this that I will actually need some day.
Also got rejected from the job I applied to the other day. Kinda silly that companies won’t even consider people with no prior job experience, where will the next Carmack come from then? ( did keendra smile now? ) :p
There should be a law on companies having to offer junior positions if their corporation is larger than x people =P As long as there is senior staff there it shouldn’t matter all that much if some of the positions gets filled by post-grads.
Tags: Assignment, C++, Carmack, Game Programming, Job, Keendra
Posted in Work
Yeah so I haven’t written in a while. Been busy with school so there hasn’t been much progress with the “furthering of my career” aspect of my life.
One of the courses I am taking is assignment oriented, so there is no exam, which makes the assignments very time consuming. So I have been working alot at that.
After these few weeks of being back to school I have convinced myself that I really need to try harder to find a job. School is nice and stuff, but I feel ready to make a name for myself and gain proper work experience.
So I updated my portfolio a bit today (just added info about my Bachelor’s thesis) and found a job I am going to apply for as well. So the rest of the day will be dedicated to three tasks.
- Write a cover letter and apply for the job.
- Start looking at the next assignment.
- Go to Amiralen (a local shopping center) and do some grocery shopping (Dragons need food apparently).
So yeah, thats about it.
Give me a job!
Tags: Assignment, Bad excuse for not blogging more often, BTH, Job, Programming
Posted in School, Work