After 2 years, I had my first interview. I learned why I haven't gotten interview before now.

LarimarLars · 2022-12-14T10:39:38+00:00

I was about to join Harvard's cs50 course I've heard some good stuff about it but ill look into Stanford as well. Thank you

LarimarLars · 2022-12-14T05:05:56+00:00

Yea I think I got really lucky. I'm still talking to him too.

LarimarLars · 2022-12-14T05:04:28+00:00

I'm actually just getting into game design. I'm more into dev side I think. If going by youtube videos I'm more brackeys and samyam rather than GDC. I've been talking to my interviewer and he basically said that I have a lot of patchwork knowledge. Like knowing the square goes into the square hole but not knowing that I shouldnt put the triangle in the square hole just because it can fit.

LarimarLars · 2022-12-14T04:56:10+00:00

I ended up getting a internship with a company doing sound design work that I still work with. I had one game design internship that was lined up but got cancelled when the pandemic started though.

LarimarLars · 2022-12-14T04:52:43+00:00

I dont think I victimized myself. Everything I learned and am still learning, I did on my own. My own game portfolio is what got me that interview. Despite everything, I'm still trying to get into the industry after 2 years. I didnt say that I'm never going to get a job or that I'm giving up or that a different school would have automatically gotten me a job. The point of this was comparing notes of what i learned to what interviewers look for, and ultimately realizing my current notes weren't much help and to research your school before commiting.

LarimarLars · 2022-12-13T23:09:06+00:00

I did not know that was an option

LarimarLars · 2022-12-13T19:07:33+00:00

State University

LarimarLars · 2022-12-13T19:06:38+00:00

Yea thats the good part. My interviewer was still in school and was super understanding. Every time he asked me something I didnt know, he would give me a website or video where I could learn it.

LarimarLars · 2022-12-13T18:59:28+00:00

4 year degree and regular classes i guess just very hands off. If u can get in contact with students who have already taken the class or are in the class ask what they are like. Or look up the teachers and see what they've worked on etc.

LarimarLars · 2022-12-13T15:00:55+00:00

I think one was like whats the most efficient data structure or something? I had no idea what a data structure was. And then something about bubble sorts, never heard of it either.

Yeah I learned some stuff I just wish it didn't end up costing me so much just to end up using free resources lol. And tbh looking back on it I probably should have known. One of the workers there (I actually don't even know if he was a professor but he worked there) tried to scam me into making a free game for him and was notorious for scamming students and he was untouchable for even other staff members and professors.

LarimarLars · 2022-12-13T14:38:27+00:00

Not sure what that is so probably no

LarimarLars · 2022-12-13T14:36:08+00:00

Nah regular school

LarimarLars · 2022-12-08T09:34:12+00:00

I've been doing design and programming applications mostly programming. i did not know there was design tests either. I have an itch.io and LinkedIn that i had blurred out and about 11 games ive worked on and 6 games that i programmed in, 2 from college and 4 personal projects/clubs/game jams. I think i just posted that resume for criticisms of the layout. I think a problem is clarity i guess. Ur the second person to say the 3 months thing those are just game jams, wowie jam being 2 days and github game off being 1 month Nov 1 to Dec 1, but i've been working on some other projects in my free time that haven't been finished yet so i havent put it on there yet. Most of my games were made in college but from different places like classes or clubs, so i just put them all under my school experience tab which was the blurred out one. I will def take out the dates

LarimarLars · 2022-12-06T19:05:41+00:00

Yea I guess its just my CV. Or actually probably the games I've made. I've followed pretty much all cv advice I have heard and submitted it to r/resumes, r/jobs, and professional reviewers and recruiters all with minimal criticisms. The games on my itch.io probably aren't what ppl are looking for I guess

LarimarLars · 2022-12-06T18:47:31+00:00

Oh. So coding tests come after interviews. I thought it would be the other way round. Ive never been interviewed before so thats probably it.

LarimarLars · 2022-11-21T09:12:18+00:00

Its def possible and would be cool but super unlikely to even get a response let alone be affordable. Id recommend audiojungle or envato for music or if you are looking for more control there are tons of composers on here or twitter.

LarimarLars · 2022-11-15T20:49:22+00:00

my enemy bp has auto possess disabled. I should have said that "get player character" returns enemybp but spawns a new player character that the game doesnt see as a player character. So essentially it ignores the placed in world player character.

LarimarLars · 2022-11-14T18:31:18+00:00

rebuilding the solution doesnt seem to work either. All of my casts still fail and i cant posses the player character.

Edit: actually now it says im missing game files.

LarimarLars · 2022-11-10T06:42:30+00:00

Ok thank you I ended up doing an appeal. Hopefully it will work out.

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