Re: GRIPES!

[Karel Bagchus <H.Bagchus@cable.a2000.nl>]

At 01:14 AM 9/7/99 -0700, Justin Howard wrote:

>1) Have any of you got a degree, Software Engineering or Computer Science?

No, I also didn't know you needed one to be a game programmer. 

>2) What kind of game programmer doesnt know what RTS and RPG mean?

Well... I had the RPG right away, but RTS had me thinking for a few seconds.

>3) Why are peopole answering messages with a "Im sorry I cant help"?
>   Surely if you cant help there is no point answering is there!

Maybe the asker is new to programming and the responding persion is
considerate
of the fact that nobody else was able to answer the question. There is
nothing wrong
with being nice to people.

>4) I was wondering what the average time trying to nut out your own problems 
>is, I have an ssumption it is less than 5 minutes.

I've spend all day on an _asm & MMX routine that does alpha blending in
DirectDraw. I'm sure that I'm going to have to spend even more time on it
considering the looks of it.

>5) Have any of you even completed high school maths(to those younger ignore 
>this one).

No, I didn't. As a matter of fact, I dropped out of school when I was 16.
Went back to school at 20, did VWO for which I studied 5 years but before
graduation I took a job in IT. Can you blame me ? I'm not sure what the
schooling system is where you live, but over here in the Netherlands VWO is
the only highschool that wil allow you to go to study at an university
afterwards.

>Im sorry that some of you got this when you dont deserve it.

Good, you should be ;=)

>For those who are still learning the VERY BASICS, its easier to learn from a 
>tutorial somewhere on the net.

Ah, I do agree on that point. Let's see... we'll say STFW from now on... LOL

>1) how many people on this list have ever been employed by a game 
>Development company cause im interested...

I worked as a professional programmer for 4 years. It was an internet
related company I worked for. Half a year ago I started my own company to
work on games. There is no game development company in Holland so unless I
wanted to move to the UK or US, I just had to start my own. But while
developing I gotta eat also, so therefore I take on 'regular' development
projects.

>2) and how many are currently working on serious projects or working as a 
>team on something.

Yes, I've been working on a DirectX screensaver library for the last couple
of months, I'm currently working on add Direct3D features to it. Besides
that, I'm working with another company that does 3D design on a multiplayer
internet game.

Karel.


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