[gameprogrammer] Re: Job market in Austin, TX

id software is near austin i believe, i heard they are looking for
programmers right now!

Bob Pendleton, owner of this list I believe is in texas as well but i
think he is in the acedemic side of making games, teaching it at a
college.

I've always heard there are 4 main gaming hubs in the US

* Southern California (LA / orange county)
* Middle California (san jose etc)
* Seattle, WA
* Austin tx

not sure if this info is still accurate but I heard that southern CA
and the Seattle area have the highest average sallaries,and that
Seattle has a low cost of living, but southern california of course
has a huge cost of living so IMO washington is the place to be.

I also heard that THQ recently closed a studio up there that employed
~75 people so in the immediate future the job market might be slightly
flooded, but THQ laid off aprox 200 people total so that may be a
slight industry wide flooding until they all get re-absorbed.

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Matthew Weigel <unique@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kevin Jenkins wrote:
>>
>> Someone posted in my blog that there are a lot of game companies in
>> Austin, TX. Anyone live there and have feedback on the work situation for a
>> game programmer? How is the job market?
>
> There are a lot of companies here, and most of them are hiring.  Austin has
> a bit of an MMO focus, but there are also a decent number of console
> studios, and a handful of non-MMO PC studios.  There's even Aspyr, the
> mostly-Mac publisher/porter/developer company.  Quite a bit of the community
> is California transplants, too.
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>  Matthew Weigel
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