[arg_discuss] The Dorklyst: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry

[Wendy Despain]

That sounds like an interesting conference. What was it?

Wendy Despain
quantumcontent.com



On Sun, November 20, 2011 3:17 am, Thomas Maillioux wrote:

> There are a lot of supposedly glamourous fields that young people will

> be

> eager to jump in, only to be disenchanted after - pop-culture related

> ones

> easily come to mind, because we don't always realize how much hard,

> tough,

> gritty work it involves. The video game industry is a great example in

> that, when you're only on the gamer side of things, you can't help but

> imagine how COOL it must be to work on the next Skyrim/Saint's

> Row/Virtua

> Bread Rider <http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/05/15> - and the

> reactions from some gamers can be pretty ugly when one breaks that

> bubble

> for them.

>

> I recently attended a day-long series of very interesting conferences

> on

> the relationship between marketing and video games, how both have used

> each

> other for quite some time now (Pepsi

> Invaders<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRg6jH_DdAY>anyone ?) and how

> marketing tools and approaches can be used in the design

> and success-tracking of a video game title. Some of the people who

> weren't

> attending the conference in meatspace litterally ripped the

> conferences

> apart over Twitter on accounts of OMGMARKETING - I found that a little

> sad.

>

> Also, one of my Brit buddies Marc moved to Canada just to work for a

> big

> video games company. *ticks #6*

>

> 2011/11/20 Sheri Rubin <sheri at designdirectdeliver.com>

>

>> http://www.dorkly.com/article/**27379/the-dorklyst-7-reasons-**

>> you-dont-want-to-work-in-the-**video-game-industry<http://www.dorkly.com/article/27379/the-dorklyst-7-reasons-you-dont-want-to-work-in-the-video-game-industry>

>>

>> I have lived #4 (go QA!) so many times it's not even funny.

>>

>> Sheri

>>

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Wendy Despain
quantumcontent.com