{"id":697,"date":"2012-03-07T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T13:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2012-03-09T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:18:57","slug":"what-to-expect-from-the-games-industry-and-what-it-expects-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/what-to-expect-from-the-games-industry-and-what-it-expects-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect from the games industry, and what it expects of you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comp-soc.com\/\">Edinburgh University Computing Society<\/a>, who run the student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comp-soc.com\/events\/stmu\/\">TechMeetup<\/a>, have asked me to give a brief talk on the games industry to one of their gatherings. As anyone who knows me will attest, I&#8217;m happy to waffle about the games industry at length, but I do have a few pet topics. Here are my discussion items for the talk, on which I&#8217;ll expand at the talk itself.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hard but rewarding work &#8211; need talent and passion.<\/li>\n<li>The feeling you get from seeing other people pick up the work you&#8217;ve made and get real entertainment from it is fantastic.<\/li>\n<li>Making games is a business, but not a hugely lucrative business. If you want to get rich, look elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t expect a job for life, or gamble everything on one team.<\/li>\n<li>Employers vary in quality. Good teams make good games. Business can still kill good teams.<\/li>\n<li>Margins are much tighter, hiring people is a risk.<\/li>\n<li>Show your talent: make a demo, work on mods. An academic CV is unlikely to be enough.<\/li>\n<li>Passion should not equal crunch. Enjoying your work is not a licence for exploitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks from Edinburgh University Computing Society, who run the student TechMeetup, have asked me to give a brief talk on the games industry to one of their gatherings. As anyone who knows me will attest, I&#8217;m happy to waffle about the games industry at length, but I do have a few pet topics. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg1JR-bf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}