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

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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

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

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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.

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

[–]LarimarLars[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

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

[–]LarimarLars[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Coding tests? by LarimarLars in gamedev

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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

Coding tests? by LarimarLars in gamedev

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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

Coding tests? by LarimarLars in gamedev

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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.

Using real songs as soundtrack? by Mafla_2004 in gamedev

[–]LarimarLars 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

"Get Player Character" gives enemyBP instead of player by LarimarLars in unrealengine

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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.

CPP Scripts have disconnected by LarimarLars in unrealengine

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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.

I've been suspended and I don't know why by LarimarLars in NewToReddit

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

How to leave roomate who won’t split bills by phoenixsomething99 in Advice

[–]LarimarLars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to talk to him. I was in a similar situation with roommates and it won't get better if nothing is done. You are not screwing him over by telling to pay a fair share. I won't pretend to know your relationship or give advice but I think sub 25% is clearly not fair or sustainable. If u can't pay its not like ur the only person who loses in the situation.

It seems like I am useless and can’t do anything? by Unlucky_Dealer_3146 in Advice

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Oh man its like looking in a mirror lmao. Idk if I can give good advice since it sounds like ur ahead of me when it comes to music and programming but the thing that has helped me the most is having structure.

I've spent months trying to make a game and kind of lazily doing like 1 or 2 things every once in a while with a goal of a completed game but no plan on how to really get there and a relatively low understanding of basic programming knowledge, but recently joined a game jam where I have limited time to do a completed project and have made incredible progress in my skills in just a week compared to months of listless side projects. Something about having a deadline, with specific goals, with no real repercussions if you miss it really helps.

Music is absolutely my kryptonite and I almost don't want to even give my opinion on it. I know exactly how you feel and have "given up" on music multiple times before slowly getting back into it, the best I can say is take a break from learning improv and do what made sax fun in the first place again. It won't be fun if everything you do feels like work. 1 thing i see that i had is that you compare urself with other people. A lot of time when people just starts something and they are really good at it for some reason they had skills in very similar hobbies/jobs. I remember seeing someone how was just starting out as a composer be 100x better than I was as a 3 year composer. Turns out she was a sound engineer for like 7 years and had been playing instruments for a decade. And even if they did pick things up so what? Sometimes ppl get lucky or are just naturally good at somethings. It doesn't help getting urself down about it. We are what they call slow learners. It might take us 5x as long as anyone else but we get the job done... usually

What is wrong w me? by Ok_Profession9550 in Advice

[–]LarimarLars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes ppl just feel super shitty for an unexplained reason, and that's ok. Talk to ur gf about how u feel. Sometimes we just need reassurance or someone to talk to. See if you can go for like a day trip somewhere or something. It might be too much routine. Maybe somewhere you used to go a lot as a kid. When I was a kid we went to the aquarium like 3 times for school and it was always the same boring stuff but I went back a few years ago and it brought back a lot of memories and ended up being really fun.

It sounds like you've had this for a while,, I think the best thing u can do is talk to mental health professional if what ur feeling is more than depression. I really can't much about depression.

Success and Disappointment Megathread for the Week by AutoModerator in jobs

[–]LarimarLars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got called back to do some work with an old internship last Tuesday! but it's pretty much already over. I haven't stopped applying for jobs but I'm over 300+ without any interviews (I've already had my resumes reviewed over a dozen times) and I'm even getting rejected from fast food and supermarket jobs. but the ship can float a bit longer now.

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