[gameprogrammer] Re: Welcome new members!
- From: Gautam Narain <gautam_n_@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:24:56 +0530
Hi,
Well I will fill in my info as well then. I got into the list when I got
interested in game development way back in 2000/2002 (don't remember the exact
year) when I was doing my engineering. It wasn't on freelists at that time. I
remember coming across this list when I was trying to learn about fractals and
was trying to get my head around line subdivision and so on. Coming to me
becoming a professional game developer, my career actually started of as a Tech
support engineer. While I was working in the call center, I was busy trying to
figure out how to get into this field. I ended up writing my first 2d game way
back in 2002-2003 but had written quite a few demos and stuff before that in
dos, so that experience helped a bit. I had a lot of interest in writing code
that involved lighting and was more into game engine development. Thanks to
someone seeing a vertex lighting demo of mine, I ended up getting my first job
as a Trainee programmer in an animation company wanting to get into games
development side of things. Although that didn't last long for various reasons
excluding the company going bust, I did learn a few things and then I went on
to work in a finance company. After that I went on and did my masters and
actually enjoyed my masters after having worked for some time. After finishing
my masters, I went on to work on some PC, PS2 and DS games in a small company
in India. After finishing about 5 games in total professionally from concept to
finish on all those platforms together and with 1 cancelled PC game, I decided
to look for greener pastures and now I work for a big publisher/developer
working on various core technology areas on next gen consoles (I guess we
should call it current gen now).
Well, writing all this makes me feel old, although I can hardly be called
anywhere near old. I am not even 30 :)
Cheers
Gautam
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 09:32:33 -0400
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: Welcome new members!
> From: "Casey O'Donnell" <caseyodonnell@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Bob...
>
> I really like the practice of welcoming new members. A while back some
> folks posted information about themselves and I never took the time to
> participate. But I am now. :)
>
> I joined the list back in 2006, when I was at a crossroads. I was
> either going to go back into the game industry "center" as a tools
> engineer or go to graduate school to study the collaborative
> interdisciplinary work of the game industry (as you'll see from the
> story below, I did the grad school thing but have since met the person
> I lost that job to, and he was better than me...). At the time, I was
> working for an Autodesk subcontractor on different parts of their
> products and also custom tool development for clients. Prior to that I
> was an engineer at a small game studio in La Jolla, CA (3D Pipeline)
> and before that I worked for Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena.
>
> While in graduate school I worked on several serious games (we called
> them "design tools" because at the time the NSF wouldn't get close to
> "games"... How times have changed) and eventually took up residence at
> Vicarious Visions in Troy/Menands, New York. I spent five years doing
> research at VV during the development of numerous titles, most notably
> though, Spiderman 3 for the PS2, Wii, and PSP. I've also spent time at
> the now defunct Red Octane India and several other studios in India.
>
> Now I'm at the University of Georgia teaching classes on media
> industry structure and capstone projects for students. Occasionally
> (when budgets allow) I teach introductory game design classes. I
> recently founded a small game company here in Athens with two full
> time artists and a part time engineer with myself as
> designer/producer. Our first game will be released in January.
>
> That's it. :) Welcome everyone...
>
> Cheers.
> Casey
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I want to welcome new members fantomschnecke, bpowell415, seg.fault.x86, and
> > dschoeni1. As always, I encourage you to join the discussion and to ask
> > questions. We can't have get answers without asking questions.
> >
>
> --
> Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications
> Grady College, University of Georgia
>
> http://www.caseyodonnell.org
>
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Jonathan Dearborn <grimfang4@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:35:29 -0400
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: Welcome new members!
>
> Oy, La Jolla to Troy? That had to be quite a change. :)
> Jonny D
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Casey O'Donnell
> <caseyodonnell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > Bob...
> >
> > I really like the practice of welcoming new members. A while back some
> > folks posted information about themselves and I never took the time to
> > participate. But I am now. :)
> >
> > I joined the list back in 2006, when I was at a crossroads. I was
> > either going to go back into the game industry "center" as a tools
> > engineer or go to graduate school to study the collaborative
> > interdisciplinary work of the game industry (as you'll see from the
> > story below, I did the grad school thing but have since met the person
> > I lost that job to, and he was better than me...). At the time, I was
> > working for an Autodesk subcontractor on different parts of their
> > products and also custom tool development for clients. Prior to that I
> > was an engineer at a small game studio in La Jolla, CA (3D Pipeline)
> > and before that I worked for Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena.
> >
> > While in graduate school I worked on several serious games (we called
> > them "design tools" because at the time the NSF wouldn't get close to
> > "games"... How times have changed) and eventually took up residence at
> > Vicarious Visions in Troy/Menands, New York. I spent five years doing
> > research at VV during the development of numerous titles, most notably
> > though, Spiderman 3 for the PS2, Wii, and PSP. I've also spent time at
> > the now defunct Red Octane India and several other studios in India.
> >
> > Now I'm at the University of Georgia teaching classes on media
> > industry structure and capstone projects for students. Occasionally
> > (when budgets allow) I teach introductory game design classes. I
> > recently founded a small game company here in Athens with two full
> > time artists and a part time engineer with myself as
> > designer/producer. Our first game will be released in January.
> >
> > That's it. :) Welcome everyone...
> >
> > Cheers.
> > Casey
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I want to welcome new members fantomschnecke, bpowell415, seg.fault.x86,
> > and
> > > dschoeni1. As always, I encourage you to join the discussion and to ask
> > > questions. We can't have get answers without asking questions.
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D.
> > Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications
> > Grady College, University of Georgia
> >
> > http://www.caseyodonnell.org
> >
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> >
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:36:16 -0400
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: Welcome new members!
> From: "Casey O'Donnell" <caseyodonnell@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Almost as big as the one from Des Moines to Pasadena when I finished
> undergrad. ;)
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Jonathan Dearborn <grimfang4@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Oy, La Jolla to Troy? That had to be quite a change. :)
> >
>
> --
> Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications
> Grady College, University of Georgia
>
> http://www.caseyodonnell.org
>
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>
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