Week 15.............The big shiny world that awaits us

is gruelling, I’m not scared by the concept of hard work but the awesome talks we had with people from industry all had a certain ring to them..........this is a ring made from razors that drains you of your soul!!!

Not one of them said "ooooo its great being a game artist, ooooooo easiest job ever" but that isn’t what I’m looking for, otherwise id still be in the corner shop job I had during college but full time :P
Even though they may not of secreted happiness with every word about the industry they still liked their job.

One interesting point about the industry is the way different countries vary with it, when Mathis was over we got talking about how the industry is different from place to place, he has the exact view of the English Game Industry bleeding their artists dry, with characters within a couple of days and such, where as the more prominent American Game Industry will quite happily give you a week or 2 to do a character if it means you make something that has had several hits on the awesome button. But then with most things America seems to be prominent, films are flooding out of Hollywood and we squeeze out a few gold nuggets now and then.

But the same story rears its head, graphics are so good we need something else, and small time game companies not only now have to compete with leading Game Companies with money to spew at graphics, but now increasingly more money will be lathered over some unsuspecting intellectuals to make a game actually interesting.
So does that mean the end of small time companies?

Actually no, because one thing of interest when Mathis did that "official" talk thing, with the vast supply of cakes, with freeness that I didn’t abuse :P
It’s the small time companies that produce the interesting things, then big companies eat them, one prime example is one of the biggest games of the year, that even the great zero punctuation couldn’t dislike, not even partially ->

Portal, which I might add, Mike has so gracefully joined the Portal fun train, 10 years later, god Mikealaleal catch-up an stop whizzing off to Amerrycana!!!

But yeah, portal like other games within Valve were created originally by modders of the original Half-life, the "bedroom coder" of a sorts and because Valve left them to their own devices, this pile of awesome was created!!!

So all you people with no lives hiding with your awesome ideas please be eaten by a company, but not EA, because that will cost you your soul!