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UK game-development degrees not up to snuff, claims industry
The UK videogames industry is suffering because UK university courses aren't equipping students with the right skills needed for the job, a gaming industry campaign group has warned. But it's also partly the Wii's fault, apparently. A campaign group called Games Up? – which is backed by several UK gaming firms - claims that only …
What, no Introversion?
When I first read this article elsewhere I commented that no one thought of Introversion. It appears here, and once again no one mentions Introversion.
Look them up, English designers, made 3 games, currently making 2 more, very sucessful, small group that make good games.
Just a thought that perhaps The Register, and the creator of the original document, may want to check just a bit better in future before commenting as they are.
erm... game design isnt all about code and comp science. sure you need the game engine but these days 3dmodelling, texturing, story, script writing, character development, sound all need filling too. the coders are usually the ones that just sit writing classes all day while everyone else does the creative stuff (how many code monkeys with any design skills do you see?)
also in this day and age a lot more is focussed on look and feel and there are shit-loads of 3d modellers and artists out there!
if we just relied on coders for games they might run well but would all look like shite
i would also imagine that most positions in gaming are filled by talented people rather than educated people. everyone knows most computing related courses arent worth the paoper they are written on. a lot of computer science people cant even build a pc ffs lol!
and i guess wii is holding everyone back due to the technology (apart from the controllers) being 5 years old. nothing bleeding edge in wii games really
Why would anyone mention Introversion though? There are loads of independent game developers in the UK like Introversion (ie. Puppygames, GreyAlien, PomPom, Addictive247, etc. etc. etc.)
tit-le demanded,
first off, the average age of a gamer before the wii was in their 30's already.
secondly, where is the mention of the brain drain currently going on as canada is giving tax breaks out to anyone in the games industry in attempt to draw them away from the UK - having already usurped our position as 3rd largest producer.
and finally, there is indeed a problem with the games design courses in that the industry is very reluctant to invest time and resources in helping out the universities and students in the first place!
don't forget many others such as frontier and zoe mode, who recently won the contract to make konamis rock band alternative title.
Tis true.
I have a BSc Games Computing (Software Development) from Lincoln University.
It was a typical joke ex-poly 8-hours a week degree, and I cruised a 2:i. There was zero input to any of the courses from the industry, the greatest 'link' was some local fruit machine company.
The vast majority of students graduated with second class honours, still unable to grasp the concept of OO design. The quality of the creative modules was 95% woeful, including my own dreadful, I mean really dreadful 3DS Max work, got marked 2:i standard or higher.
I think one person on my course landed a job in the industry, and he was just one of those gifted programmers. When everyone else was writing console-based fruit machines, he was producing 3D one-arm bandits with shops to spend your winnings. Ho hum.
Still, I got my development skills up to scratch with community development in parallel, and have managed to end up making good money as a business intelligence consultant.
Doesn't help that the games industry has a really terrible reputation for working hours and remuneration.
shouldn't that be...
...all sectors are "facing a serious decline in the quality of graduates", which is compounded by the problem that "95 per cent of all degrees are simply not fit any purpose"
Drought caused by tech-snobbery!!!
As a recent graduate with a 1st class degree (from a so called "Red Brick" university), I find articles such as this make my blood boil! I went to a job fare to talk to some game developers quite recently. They were advertising roles, so i was really excited to speak to them.
After some pleasantries, they asked me "what have you studied" etc, and then asked "What language where you taught?". When I replied JAVA they just laughed at me! No we don't want your CV, bye bye. Mmm. Strange. It didn't matter how good a programmer I was, or what awards I'd won....
And when I do get job interviews, I'm presented with a programming test so obtuse and mathematically complicated, it serves no purpose other than to make me look really stupid. If you want mathematicians don't advertise software roles. If you want dedicated, talent developers who CAN solve mathematical problems outside of a highly stressful interview, then use your brain!! We are taught to use API's to solve complex problems, that why they exist!!
National Crisis?
I think not! Maybe students should/are focusing on actual important things... trying perhaps to say, make an actual difference in life? Whoa... thats a problem there eh?
Anon.. because who cares anyway.
This is news??
Christ ... the quality of graduates has always been shite. I actually quit my degree to enter the "industry". I was told by one of the directors of the company a few years later that I was a good bet as i showed more innate ability than a lot of graduates. To be honest, I wasn't surprised considering some of the graduate interviews i sat in on.
from all the job adds that I get through.
from all the job adds that I get through one thing is clear, there paying no where near enough for me to want to go an work for them. Maybe they should pay a bit more if they want better people.
e.g. Job in games industry 25k Job in defence writing 3d simulation games 60k
..pay penuts get ..... people who learned programming from ... one of those computeach type jobbies ><
We're short of programming skills or game design skills?
Article doesn't make it clear.
Programming skills are a problem. We're not short of people who can script or write C#, Java, Python, etc. We just don't pay enough to attract the good ones. We *are* short of people who laugh at C++ because they realize how poorly a std::list or std::vector performs compared to intrusive lists or fixed-sized arrays. Too much engine code written in a C++ way - try porting that to the Cell.
Of course the problem isn't a lack of British-born people who can do this. The problem is that they pay 2x the money in the USA so they've all gone there.
Computer science courses are good
I graduated from Imperial College a couple of years ago. The university is currently ranked (not that is really matters) 5th in the world. It definitely has one of the best computer science courses in the world.
The CS course teaches you more than enough to do games programming (which I have done in the past), as well as producing some of the finest programmers around. Some of the people I worked with truly were brilliant. This is my first point: you do not need a computer games degree to make computer games. In fact, I would say a good CS degree is just as valuable (if not more in some cases) to games companies. It creates better programmers in general. So, while 95% of the video game degrees may not be good enough, I would suggest that most of the comp sci ones are
Most people I know from my year (and others) now work in the square mile for various investment banks and hedgefunds, where believe it or not, you do get to do *some* interesting stuff as a programmer.
Starting salary at the bank for me was £45k and others i know got higher. After working 2 years I am on £65. This excludes our yearly bonus, which normally comes in at around 40-50% of our salary (or if you are at a hedge fund, maybe multiples of your salary).
The games companies that offered me jobs were willing to pay £18k/20k. With very little increase, and little-to-no bonus.
Thats why we don't have good programmers going into computer games.
I should add, that from the age of about 15 it was my plan to go into computer game programming. It was something I really did want to do.
This held up until I had nearly finished my masters and was looking for a job.
The salary difference + travel/moving (games companies seem to be based out of london), changed my mind. This was the same for just about everyone else I knew in my 1st year who said they were interested in getting into games.
So, in summary. The games companies can fix this:
- Tell people who are interested to do computer science courses, rather than computer games ones (just make sure you specialise in relevant courses).
- Pay more.
This was covered on slashdot the other day also: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/19/1719206
Robb, what exactly do Introversion have to do with the subject of this article? It might be worth reading the article before responding. This article is about there being a lack of quality game development related degrees in the UK. There are quite a lot of successful UK game development firms, there just isn't a steady stream of well trained new talent.
Of course they could take on more trainees and actually skill someone up in the manner that they require but well thats more costly and time consuming than bitching about the education system isn't it??
I somehow doubt a 21 graduate is going to start knocking up a PS3 title right out of uni and I seriously doubt any uni course could properly educate someone to this level given the usual 2-4 hrs lecturing a week on most courses in a couple of years.
Good of the Industry to point out the failings of the University courses though must really inspire all the kids enrolled on them to continue with their studies...
Fail to mention an important fact...
Which are the four Universities offering accredited courses?
Surprise surprise
There's nothing games-industry specific here. Businesses like their costs (eg training) externalised. Eighty percent of employers want somebody who will work 50 hour weeks for under £20K , be 100% up to speed on their second day at the job, show fanatical loyalty for the duration of their project and then bugger off without complaining when they're deemed surplus to requirements. The same companies will offshore to India at the drop of a hat so why exactly should anyone in the UK take any particular notice of what they want?
Talking of games development degrees i have a 2.2 from Linc Uni in their Games Computing course, which was quite good only it focussed to heavily on the more academic side of software development than providing us with the practical skills that we would need when we left. As a result many of us ended up getting jobs in the IT Support sector rather than the games sector.
So yeah something needs to be done but I'm wary of anyone that says things like 'The group want centres of excellence for videogame design' as it sounds too much like 'we want to control everything'
Excuse my ignorance, but what have Introversion got to do with games degrees being useless?
Not just the games industry
University software engineering degrees certainly don't produce good software engineers; indeed, many people manage to obtain a 2:1 or better degree in software engineering without knowing the basics of object oriented design, and with no real experience of programming. I recently interviewed three people with 1sts in software engineering from leading universities, none of whom could tell me how to extract a byte of data from a 32 bit integer.
Having said that, by all accounts the games industry is badly paid, has long hours, and treats its staff like turd, so it's probably for the best if naive graduates don't get suckered into it.
So, to clarify
My tax dollar,er pound, is spent letting a bunch of long haired pot smoking yobs spend 3-4 years in a subsidised pub, do a bit of programming (not difficult, I do it most days) and then sell out to some US company for a few million. And none of it comes back to the tax payer (or specifically me).
81 degrees available to write games. No wonder our education system is completely f^cked up. The should be doing real degreess like being a doctor or something.
Paris - I'm as shocked as she is shocking.
Sorry, what?
@Robb, relevance? Not sure if you're saying "here's an indie uk developer" or what...
Hold that thought and extend it.
Gaming degrees not up to scratch? Try Computing degrees in general.
I'll sound like a crusty old grey beard now, but I don't think that Computing qualifications are up to scratch these days at all. Gaming is simply one more industry affected by it.
I see it every day. Where I work we don't hire new starts straight from college as it takes a full year for them the be of any use whatsoever. The need for re-learning and new learngin of fundamental programming technique is amazing.
I saw this process begin as I left my university clutching my degree in my anxious hand years and years ago. Already people with non-numerate degrees were taking post grad diplomas in IT and then claiming that they were suited for jobs in programming. These were the first wave of graduates that went on to become business analysts and consultants. They spent a decade pissing off geeks and techies everywhere.
University/college courses have steadily eroded the basic fundamental programming practice in favor of the latest fashionable language or tool. Courses have become more like training courses in particular development environments. What used to be Computer Science is little more than enhanced vocational training.
How can people come out of university Computing programs and not even know how to do a simple binary sort routine? People interviewing with a couple of years of supposed experience and claiming to be Oracle experts can't explain database normalization, nor do they have a clue about PL/SQL techniques as simple as using a cursor. And it's not about application specific skills like PL/SQL. I'd expect anyone who claimed to be a developer of procedural code in a database environment to at least understand what a cursor is.
In game programming fundamental skills are what is needed. Simulation, Physics, AI, all of these are really classical, pure Computer Science. There used to be degrees on building numerical models to simulate systems and models. Accurately simulating and implementing physics in a game environment requires understanding of that physics and the math involved. Both of these require a good structured approach to the code. AI is a field of science all of it's own, and again requires some very strong fundamental technique. Moving on from this to the programming of the graphics engine, that's not exactly a walk in the park either. Again fundamentals are key.
Yet if you look at many of the degree programs available in Computing and those specifically targeted at game programming. What are they? Superficial education concentrating on tool sets? Accelerated programs designed to bring people through quickly? Hardly the careful, structured approach to fundamentals is it?
But you see, it's the same through the whole field. In real IT in business, it's not about manipulating tools to build a web front end. That's something that any Business analyst can cope with, the tools are there to support it. However, any application still requires some fundamental programming. Any business application build models at least one business process. So the skills needed to analyze and model that process are just as fundamental and important as those used in game programming. However the scale of the application is typically a bit different, as is the tolerance for error and tightness of the deadline.
I'm tired of hearing kids reel off a list of acronyms and names of languages or environments to me at interviews when i know I can stop the cold in their tracks simply by asking them how they would do something without their favorite tool.
I think it's time for universities and colleges to return to a more fundamental and academic basis for their education of engineers, technologists. University and College is supposed to be about education and learning how to research, evaluate and assimilate new knowledge. Fundamental methods, techniques, and facets of the topic of study. University and college should not simply be a training course. Once people graduate they enter the work world and training happens, training in specific tools or methods that the particular place of work uses. University and College is not vocational training school.
There, it's done now. Mine's the 'old crusty BOFH' T-shirt.
I've checked out Introversion as you suggest but have no clue as to why you think they're worth mentioning? The articles are about a shortage of properly qualified game designer/programmers because of poor standards in uni courses. Are you suggesting that they could get all their staff from Introversion or that every games company should be that small and not need qualification?
Either that or you're seriously underestimating how many "British" developers there are here as it stands. I highlight that as DMA Design, who became Rockstar North, started in Dundee (where some of the first games-based courses were started some years ago due to a lot of acticity in the area) and moved to Edinburgh. Anyhoo, I just don't see what you're trying to say.
Game making degrees
The problem with teaching a subject like games explicitly is that you have to promote fixed models. Arguably one of the UK's strengths in the market has always been unconventional thinking.
Compare the UKs Lemmings, GTA, Elite, Tomb Raider etc with the USA where the-same-sports-game-every-year and another-moody-first-person-shooter have taken over from the film-tie-in-platformer as the commercial game of choice. The Japanese have always been more inventive than the Americans, but new ideas that work in Japan rarely make the crossover successfully (Nintendo being the notable exception), and most of what we see coming from Japan is Final Fantasy type stuff, car sims and flying shooters.
So, after indoctrinating the next generation into how games should work, where are the new ideas going to come from? Or will we become a mere follower of trends, and produce first person shooters that won't sell in America and flying shooters that won't sell in Japan?
Teaching Game design?
Can it be taught? Surely teaching people the same skills will lead to a raft of identikit games - exactly what we don't need.
Wouldn't it be better to pick individuals with flaire and imagination, then train them up in-house under a mentor scheme, much like the old skool Japanese and British developers?
Just imagine what a games industry full of miyamotos, kojimas, Nakas, and Mizuguchi's could accomplish...
Bring Back Jeff Minter - now there was a guy who could write games.
Hey, if you want the best, you have to pay for it
Just like you do with any other limited talent your business depends on. Like, say, your CEO.
You give him a HUGE pay offer "to get the best" and options "to incentivise". So do the same for these people who do the work you sell.
My brother made very nearly the same wage working in a call centre than he did with his degree for SCI (whose marketing bod [boyfriend of CEO] thought red was a fast colour because his ferrari was red and it was fast).
Well they've changed their tune
Back in the first half of the 1990s I went to an interview at a games company with my shiny new maths & comp sci degree. Not interested they said. We only want bedroom hackers who've already had a game published.
Paris because she knows how to handle a joystick.
David Braben?
Is that the David Braben who co wrote Elite?
Degree Shortage and Employee Training
Used to be, in the world where business made sense, that you found capable people and you trained them in the skills they needed to perform the job. This not only resulted in a better product, but (re)enforced employer/employee loyalty. Now a days companies want someone to be able to perform instantly - in return for more job opportunities employees stand a much larger chance of being canned at the first blip in the market. An "Expert in a Box" is a commodity and can be easily replaced - whereas internally trained staff are investments in and of themselves.
Someone said it above that 95% of degrees are crap, and they are correct. School has become it's own end. The school wants to pass out degrees and increase enrollment, not teach people anything useful - so they create "programs" that enhance their internal/government required metrics but destroy any semblance of education.
"We *are* short of people who laugh at C++ because they realize how poorly a std::list or std::vector performs compared to intrusive lists or fixed-sized arrays. Too much engine code written in a C++ way - try porting that to the Cell."
Bad example. If the object of your comparison is a fixed size array, then the only thing you might be comparing is the access to an element, and I'm not aware of any compiler that can't make std::vector run as fast as a fixed size array. The compiler generates the same code for the two cases. Try grovelling over a disassembly output some day.
Problems porting to the Cell? Well that might be the switch from a desktop OS with virtual memory to an embedded device with only 256K of directly address memory. I can imagine *many* attitudes that have to change in that case.
However, the Cell's architectural foibles will be ancient history in a couple of years time, just as carefully scheduling instructions for non-OoO processors has been for a decade or so now, and quite definitely *not* doing so for OoO processors might be in a few years time. It is the *duty* of any half-decent programming course to ensure that students *don't* spend the entire time gaining experience with *modern* architectures, because in 10 or 20 years time that experience will be about as useful as my own personal expertise in optimising for 16-bit segmented systems.
Sounds to me like a rather specialised branch of industry doesn't want to pay for itsrather specialised training costs.
change the "new" unis back to polys?
Heres a thought....close down all the "new" unis and perhaps the degree quality will go up and perhaps those of us (like me) who struggled through an old uni course and left with a comparitively low mark due to the difficulty of the course...(database normalisation at an advanced level, SQL coding again at an advanced level etc [lack of industry contacts though was a disgrace]) who are stuck in retail might stand a chance without the piles of "new" uni students such as those from a certain dundee university starting with aber.
I say this as prior to the "final" exam I have been they are given a list of 8 questions and told they will be asked 6 of said questions......hmmm trying to ensure a 100% pass rate?
That and the enormous amount of people walking out of there with a 1st who cant even figure out how to assemble a PC or write a program without libraries galore is sad.
Their only reasonable course is their computer games tech course and it is even woeful as its based on tools and *java* and filled with sad old farts and bankrupt ex games 'tycoons'....such as chris van der.....ill stop there.
Heard this before
A mate of mine working for a reputable games developer told me that as soon as they see they have a 'games' degree they bin the cv. I asked why, and the most important reason is their portfolio of games, each one shows the same 3 or so games that they have been told to make, which are near identical and so show no innovation, talent etc. They far prefer intelligent people, who have by their own interest fired out a load of code to produce some ace games.
... excuse me, just testing if it still works.
A few years back I used to be on a mailing list where we had this superstition that if you said his name three times, he would be summoned. And the funny thing is, it worked. Every time. Let's see if he turns up here to post a comment.
Coat? Ah, thanks, mine's the one with the filthy truth in the pocket...
extension of dave austin's comment
This brings up an interesting point, in that the problem is more along the lines of industrialising something that specifically does not need to be industrialised, game design is a craft that does not need industrialisation, it needs hedging into exalted communities of geniuses who are entirely free to make precisely what they want, and pass it through great ritual and ceremony to them what pay for them to do so. but of course this will never happen, as that would involve invalidating distribution industries, and we know how thats gone so far.
On a side note, the MDF university what I go to (UWS, formerly Paisley University) is one of the accredited-by-Skillset centres, and i'm pretty sure that Abertay/Dundee is the only other one in Scotland. Having seen this discussion I can understand why. Two comrades from the feeder college I came from gave up less than halfway through their games tech course, simply because they were incapable of keeping up with the literal mountains of physics, hardcore mathematics and similar ardours. I never heard any mention of a single toolset, which they were greatly disheartened on, having spent two pointless years learning Java at college and hoping for more of the same + bells &/ whistles.
Me, I'm happy I jumped onto the net tech bandwagon after years of pining pointlessly for games tech, then realising that its even more hellish (and generally worse paid) than.. well, tech support.
@heard this before
Interestingly, leeds met uni don't make their students design the same games. They give their students concept briefs and tell them to make a game out of it as long as it incorporates key elements.
They don't say "you will reproduce this game", they make each group or student come up with their own narrative.
They were told that they are banned from making FPS games and focus heavily on the concept document.
At one point they even emulated the teaching staff as publishers by introducing a new game element every week - which lead my GF's team to creating a quest based game set in a bus depot on the moon whilst trying to assemble scuba gear for their dieing teacher >.<
At the end of each project, they have to host a presentation where they pitch their game to the teaching staff and that pitch makes up part of the grading mark.
But as I said waaaay back in the comments, the biggest failing point I can see is that the industry is taking very little interest in helping Uni's with guiding these courses - you whinge about the quality of skills coming out of uni when you make zero damn effort to get involved too.
Tho, I have to admit that leeds met uni have been getting local games studios involved after seeing team 17, sumo digital, rockstar leeds and a few others host lectures there this past year alone!
Having spent a decade working in games, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this is pure bullshit.
The games industry requires the same skills as at least a dozen other fields but is completely unwilling to pay for any training or development of staff. Demanding that universities fill your niche training requirements is arrogant, ineffectual and the cause of the so-called "skills shortage".
You sir are an ass
"My tax dollar,er pound, is spent letting a bunch of long haired pot smoking yobs spend 3-4 years in a subsidised pub, do a bit of programming (not difficult, I do it most days) and then sell out to some US company for a few million. And none of it comes back to the tax payer (or specifically me)."
Wake up. Students pay their own way. Perhaps you were deliberately trying to sound like a foolish bigot in your post but you should be aware that the government dont subsidise students anymore. We get loans and then have to pay them off with inflated interest thus helping keep you in your over-mortgaged home.
If the games industry wants to attract graduates maybe they should try and support those with academic skills and no industry skills. I retrained from a science degree to a computing degree at the same time as working (and paying tax) achieveing the highest possible grade. Similarly to Rob Lyon I went to the uk game conference last year and was told that I shouldnt even bother with the game industry if I couldnt write low level C++ and a complete game engine.
I'm not that bothered. I dont want to work for another bloated, backward, corporate monster anymore anyway. They wan't new blood because they want to steal their ideas. Make them sign a non-disclosure agreement. (see terms of contract saying all inventions at work belong to the company). My advice to all is, write as much of a game as you can yourself, get help from friends and forum users and ignore the computer game companies. Release it yourself and do it your way.
not specific to games, software in general
A lot of the comments on here have backed it up too, if the course is games design, then you need to give examples of your design skills in your interviews. The problem isn't coding skills, any monkey can pick up coding skills. Its around full software development, of which coding is only a small part. A game development is made up of a lot of different skillsets, coders being one small, pretty unremarkable, part.
I did a software engineering degree, and i too, focussed on the coding aspect, but now i'm actually a proffessional i've found coding to be a minimal part of the job.
You need to be able to design the software in the first place, spot and resolve problems in an abstract way before it goes anywhere near a graphic designer or a coder. Coding skills help, but are not particularly essential for design, as a good design will be independant of the final language.
If you want to become a games programmer, fair play to you, but again you need far more than just coding skills. Documentation (yes that included knowing how to comment your code properly) design, architecture etc are all essential, or you will end up being nothing more than a coding monkey*. Documentation is particularly important if you expect anyone but youreslf to actually use your code, and thare aren't that many lone game developers out there anymore, doing it proffessionally anyway.
*affectionate name (sort of) for the coders who are given a spec which details step by step exactly what they need to do and the way in which they need to do it, rather than be given a design and expected to emply any sort of thought/creativity in their coding.
@ Rob Lyon
I agree the company shouldn't turn you down just because your uni only taught Java.
But your complaint about math in interview exams is invalid, if you can't do the math yourself without wasting time trying to figure it out on the fly you can't be sure you're doing it right.
They need people who can do the math off the top of their head and that hence know that they're following the right procedure.
I used to feel like you but experience has taught me that you do need to be able to do math for these types of job. If it's that that's stopping you getting a job may I suggest you consider doing some math courses from the likes of the Open University (www.open.ac.uk) or similar?
If they want high quality recruits why don't they pool their resources and create a private institution, instead of going cap in hand and begging the state?
That's funny..
I finished an HND here in Dundee, and most of the people I knew advised me *not* to take the games course at Abertay, and go instead for Applied Computing at Dundee. I see why now =)
A view from a games degree graduate and industry professional.
I graduated from the BSc(Hons) Computer Games Technology degree at Abertay in 2005 with a 2:2. I've been working in the Games Industry as a Software Engineer since June of 2005.
Getting a Desmond wasn't an ideal way to end my academic career but thanks to me being able to prove my skills I still got an 'in'. Getting a first isn't mandatory if you are able to prove your skills although I'd heartily recommend it as it looks better on your CV!
If you really want to work in the Games Industry in any form of programming position you are going to have to demonstrate your skills with a polished demo. Especially coming into it as a graduate. This could be a complete small game or some form of tech demo if you are applying for a more physics/rendering oriented job. You should also be able to provide the source or code samples that show you understand Software Engineering concepts. It doesn't have to be beautiful but it shouldn't be a mess of hacked together rubbish!
Going back to the subject of education, at a degree level you essentially get out what you put in. The lectures, tutorials and assignments give you a base level of knowledge. It is up to the student to get out there and learn more. Universities recognise this and give a lot of students a ludicrously large amount of free time. This in part gives you a chance to up your academic grade (important!) but leaves a large amount of time where you can make games or learn techniques (e.g. the demo mentioned above). You can also fill in the gaps that the degree doesn't teach; for example project management, software estimation, technical documentation and mathematics.
Selection of degree is also important. There are some really dross Computer Science and Games Development courses available. There are also some really good ones although fewer in the latter category. Apply to the very best institutions that you meet the grade requirements for. If you can't get on to one of the good Games courses or want a more general education then apply to the good CS courses. It won't hold you back in my opinion.
Games development is becoming more and more about being a good communicator as well. As the average team size ramps up this is fast becoming a core skill. The ability to explain problems to people of varying technical expertise is important. A healthy and varied social life is important. The days of the anti-social uber nerd with bad hygiene and no interpersonal skills are numbered.
Universities and educators also need to wake up and supply quality content to their students. They need to be more discriminating about who they take on as a course with decent content will be as challenging as many top CS degrees. Games Development Studios also need to work with the universities to provide information about their requirements and if necessary review course components. This will never be critical to the business but is important if the talent we want is to be found.
The other criticisms regarding poor working practices, low-pay and long hours are all valid reasons the games industry doesn't attract staff. Hopefully these things are being addressed. For the record in the three years I've worked in industry I've perhaps done a total of 6 hours overtime. Pay still isn't great but I've worked at a couple of forward thinking studios with regards working practices.
It's the professors, not the school
I don't believe that there are good or bad universities, just teachers that are better or worse. Unless you're a classic self-starter (e.g. Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Richard Feynman), the real purpose of universities is to increase the chances that you will bump into someone dedicated to the life of the mind who will by example show how much entertainment and utility hide in the outer convolutions. It is by their interest and enthusiasm that great teachers communicate a love for their subject. Sometimes you take away a shared appreciation of that subject, sometimes you just take away the desire to find something that moves you as deeply. In either case you are fortunate. Many grab the sheepskin and run, never having had the experience which in any case can never be guaranteed.
(Reminds me of an old joke: "You may not know the right answers, but at least you'll learn how to ask the right professors...")
If you go back to the origins of the university, you'll find that they were student associations that paid standout lecturers and standup philosophers to entertain them, much as fanboys gravitated to Plato in the grove of the Academy. Later on came the transformation of the university into the institution of primary importance and of the professor into a mere university employee (with few exceptions). In the origins of the university lie the original reason for and the true utility of university education.
UK games = Quality, US games = Quantity
I think I've found the reason why there is such a gulf between the skills and abilities that the industry craves, and what the average student crawls out of tertiary education with... "accredited by the Skillset, the government monitoring body"
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Each morning during prayer time I ask God to please embrace adults, children and animals, who are homeless, hungry, abused and afraid. Even in their darkest moments I want them to feel the love of Christ hugging them. I do the same prayer when I see someone stranded on the side of the road or when I know someone is hurting. This occurred yesterday when I was in the grocery store.
A young woman walked through the doors and came over immediately to the sales associate helping me. Tears ran down the woman's face as she talked to the clerk. I couldn't hear the conversation, so I was startled when the employee asked me if I knew where the young woman could get financial aid. It seems the young woman needed immediate help or she would lose her home. At first I thought the sales person knew this troubled soul, but soon realized she did not. I did however quickly recognize she was a Christian. Simultaneously we ask this troubled person her first name so we could pray for her, and she said "Jenny." I felt troubled for Jenny when she told us she had given up on God because He had let her down. Not only are we now praying for Jenny to get the help she needs, we are praying for her to not give up on God, because He surely has not given up on her.
Prayer is such a powerful thing and when we trust God to already be working on the solution, it will be done. I think Jenny was directed to us strangers, not to hand over the several hundred dollars she needed, but to offer advice of where she might gain help, as well as to lift her up in prayer. Could Jenny have lied about her situation? Absolutely. Though I don't believe she did, either way, God will be with her. There are times when I am led to pray for a stranger, followed by the push to do more. I know many of us are familiar with feeling "led by God" to do something for someone. It can be something we see, or even a sound in a voice we immediately recognize as a call for help. Perhaps the person you have a conversation with is having a bad day, or has just learned sad news. Something clicks within your heart and you are able to "hear" their need for help. Simple words of comfort or encouragement could be the very thing you are sent to provide. Other times, like yesterday's opportunity, where I felt the information we gave her, along with continuing to pray, were the responses asked of us by Christ.
If I see a car broken down on the side of a road, I pray for their safekeeping and for help to arrive. On a rare occasion I have felt an urgency to stop. I always remember how very thankful I have been when I needed help and gained it. Because it is dangerous, I leave it up to God. If I'm supposed to do more than pray, He will guide me and I stop worrying.
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These beautifully glazed carrots are colorful and dressed up enough for Christmas dinner. They have become such a favorite side dish that I often double the easy one-skillet recipe!
8 Servings
Prep: 10 min. Cook: 25 min.
2 pounds baby carrots
1/4 cup finely chopped green onions
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1 teaspoon grated orange peel
1/2 teaspoon salt
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The Starfires of South Adams look to advance to the sectional finals for the first time since 2006 on Friday as they take on the Union City Indians on their home turf.
The records are the same; 9-1. The rankings are not. According to the coaches poll, South Adams is the fourth best team in 1A football this week, while Union City is perched just outside of the top ten. Both are coming off of great wins (SA over Monroe Central 46-0, Union City over Wes-Del 42-20).
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It brags about being the nation's first credit union. Its original name - "La Caisse Populaire Ste-Marie - adorns its buildings, even on the non-Franco, east side of our city. And its first location is now a historical museum.
Yet, even for St. Mary's Bank, time moves on. When the organization's West Side headquarters moves to a new, $10 million building later this year, one historical tidbit will be staying behind.
For 43 years, a two-panel mural has hung in the lobby of the current St. Mary's Bank building at McGregor Street. One image depicts a waterside meeting between French settlers and native Americans. The other shows two settlers on what appears to be a hillside, overlooking a log cabin down below.
Underneath it is a caption written in Quebecois French, wording that twists my brain as much as my tongue as I attempt to decipher it with the Parisian French I struggled through in college decades ago.
As it turns out - this is their story and they're sticking to it - there is just no space for the mural in the three-story, 29,000-square-foot headquarters under construction beside the current bank building.
The new building is designed on a curve, company officials said. (If you were looking at it from a helicopter, it would look like a quarter piece of pie.) So the lobby and most public areas will be curved walls, glass walls or walls that are both curved and glass.
Just no place to hang a mural that is roughly 18 1/2 feet long and 5 feet high.
"We just don't have a large enough, flat wall on the interior of the building where it will fit," said Ronald Covey, president and chief executive officer of St. Mary's Bank.
So St. Mary's Bank is searching for a home where the public will be able to see it.
First choice - Manchester Historic Association. Executive Director Aurore Eaton said the Historic Association is having conversations about the mural, but nothing is resolved yet. The acquisition has to go through an internal review process (it's not the documents and photos the association usually accepts). And Eaton said the association would not be able to display it immediately.
Covey, who is also trustee chairman of the New Hampshire Institute of Art, has asked the Institute of Art about a place for the mural. The Institute doesn't know if it has a large enough space for the mural, said spokesman Christopher Williams.
I'm not the first to ask about the mural, said Elizabeth Stodolski, marketing director for St. Mary's Bank. Her department has started to research it.
In 1969, directors authorized the use of an unspecified portion of the clock budget for the art work, upon the suggestion of Sherman H. Jones, the Melrose, Mass., architect who designed the current building.
No artist is ever mentioned, not in records or on the mural. But a pencil sketch of the piece gives references to history books about Manchester and the Merrimack River Valley.
Another thing: It's not wood. While framed with hardwood, the scenes are painted on some type of a metal. Rub your fingers along it, knock it, and it's obviously metal, Covey said.
It's clear that St. Mary's Bank is sensitive about the piece. My questions to Stodolski were bumped up to Covey, and when I visited McGregor Street yesterday, customers bemoaned its loss.
So let me be brave and say, frankly, that it does not belong in the new building. In history, as well as art, there is timeless, and there is dated.
This is dated. No one working at St. Mary's Bank headquarters yesterday could tell me whether the French on the caption was Quebecois or Parisian. (I had to ask a customer.) Painted tin has gone the way of Victorian ceilings.
And most importantly, the scene doesn't depict Manchester. The mountains in the distance aren't the Uncanoonucs. The water body is a lake (not a river), the land is flat like a Midwestern plain, and the vegetation consists of three birch trees with jungle-like canopies.
It's kitsch, and the new corporate headquarters of St. Mary's is anything but that.
Designed by Lavalle Brensinger Architects, the new building represents the triumph of the little guy. It is being built while big Wall Street banks nurse self-inflicted wounds caused by arrogance and careless greed. Stay prudent and above-board, this building announces, and a bank can build a palace of rock-solid stone and transparent glass.
No need to clutter up this showcase with a dated amalgam of history and art.
But my word is not the last one here. My fellow Union Leader columnist Eaton loves the piece.
"I think it's beautiful folk art," she said. It represents the French history in North America - the French as explorers. The French as homesteaders. The French who befriended and married natives.
"That's part of our history and cultural lore as Franco Americans. Growing up I learned that history," Eaton said.
So although the mural is only 40 years old, and although it may have some geographic inaccuracies, it depicts how French-speaking people look at themselves, she said.
"There is," Eaton said, "a context to this thing that's lost on anyone who hasn't studied it."
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It's a rumor that's probably full of…um…high grade fertilizer, but it's fun to speculate.
What would you like to see in a new Star Trek series? More prequel/reboot stuff? Back to the TNG/DS9/Voyager time period? Or go even farther into the future (the next-next generation)?
(Also: other series news)
Brian Robert Orci, Star Trek Star Trek
Robert Orci is set to make his directorial debut with the next Star Trek film (#13 or #3, depending on how myopic your view of the franchise is).
That's right kids. A guy with a mediocre record as a writer and zero experience directing anything has been handed the reigns to one of the biggest science fiction franchises in history. Did we mention the film is due out on Star Trek's 50th anniversary?
Man, and I thought I had a bad feeling about the new Star Wars film…
Brian A.C. Crispin, Enter your zip code here, Star Trek, Star Wars, V Obituary
Known, predominently, for her media tie-in novels, Ann Crispin made a name for herself in mainly male-oriented industry. She wrote original works as well as novels in the Star Trek, Star Wars, and V universes.
While some may look down their noses at tie-in novels, Crispin's work has often been pointed to as some of the best around. Indeed, her novel, Yesterday's Son was the first Star Trek novel to break onto the NYT Bestseller list.
On a personal note, I think I can point to her novelization of the original "V" miniseries as one of the first (if not the first) Science Fiction book I ever read.
She passed away today after a long battle with cancer. She did manage to post a farewell message to her friends and fans on Tuesday:
I've been hesitant to make this post, but it's time. I want to thank you all for your good wishes and prayers. I fear my condition is deteriorating. I am doing the best I can to be positive but I probably don't have an awful lot of time left. I want you all to know that I am receiving excellent care and am surrounded by family and friends.
I wish all aspiring writers the will to finish and a good contract. Please continue to monitor Writer Beware and be careful who you sign with. Victoria Strauss and Richard White are there to help.
I've asked Michael to collect and read me your messages. As I don't know how things will proceed, I don't know if I'll have the strength to post on Facebook again.
In addition to her writing, she was the founder and chair of the Science Fiction Writers of America's committee against scams AKA Writer Beware.
She is survived by her husband and fellow Sci-Fi author, Michael Capobianco.
Brian Freebies, Star Trek Star Trek
It's on Netflix and Amazon Prime, but if you subscribe to neither, you can get every episode of every series from StarTrek.com. For free. The only drawback is that they are Flash-based, so mobile viewing can be tricky.
I might start spending my lunch hours the next few weeks catching up on TAS, just for fun.
W. Blaine Dowler greatest science fiction film tournament, Star Trek Star Trek
The first of our podcasts about contenders in the Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament is ready for your listening pleasure. In this one, Brian and I discuss the 2009 rebooted Star Trek film, with some minor digressions. If you subscribe to the Bureau 42 Master Audio Podcast feed through iTunes or straight RSS, you should find it in your feed already. Due to the unpredictable nature of the release schedule for Great Science Fiction Film Tournament podcasts, these will go in the master feed, but will not get a feed of their own. Warning: this is a long one. In fact, it's about half an hour longer than the actual movie.
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For lack of a better name for our villain's ship…
Brian Star Trek, Trailers Star Trek
We've seen a bunch of teasers for the movie, but this would be, what I would call, the first real trailer.
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On January 3, 1993, Star Trek took a turn into a darker, grittier place with the premiere episode of Deep Space Nine. The pilot episode, "The Emissary," introduced us to a Commander who hated Picard and was looking to retire early, an ex-terrorist turned first officer, a 700 year old Science Officer, a shapeshifting security officer, a morally challenged barkeep, and a slew of others that, frankly, did not get along.
What emerged was a show that was the first Star Trek not created by Gene Roddenberry. In fact, before his death, he was pretty pessimistic about it. Gone was the doe-eyed optimism of his original vision of the future and replaced with the harsh realities of war, occupation, and…well…life.
So, twenty years later, what's your take on DS9?
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Paramount has been closely guarding the name of Benedict Cumberbatch's villainous character in next year's Star Trek Into Darkness, with Khan Noonien Singh and Gary Mitchell as front runners for the role. The identity of his character may have been revealed today. See below.
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Isn't it exciting when new restaurants or attractions open up near to you? I am always on the lookout for new places to eat, and I had the pleasure of being invited to Yard of Ale Gastro Pub in Clearwater recently. This is their newest location, and I love that it is a bit more accessible to me. Not only is it closer to me, but it also has a great atmosphere and vibe! I mean, how cool is that curved wooden wall in one of the rooms we visited? You can also sit outside and enjoy a cocktail on the patio, sit indoors and watch one of the many TV screens on the walls, and even attend events.
Anyway, a group of us were treated to a food and drink pairing, and it was absolutely impressive! I have to admit: at first I would have thought we'd be dining on chicken wings and other fried food. I was dead wrong. Yard of Ale Gastropub is what it's name implies. There is American fusion cuisine ranging from classic pub food to hearty entrees with a twist, a huge selection of beer, and craft cocktails too.
We began our culinary tour with fried shrimp topped with Thai chili, arugula, and sriracha, paired with Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc. What a way to start strong! This was one of my favorites of the evening. I could have eaten an entire plate of these bad boys all on my own. Yum.
Last Thursday, William Dean Chocolates hosted yet another amazing event fit for foodies. It included a chocolate showpiece presentation, a chocolate tempering demonstration, and (of course) a lot of savory and sweet treats! You really can't go wrong with that combination…
As guests entered the kitchen, their eyes were met with tables piled with beautifully plated bites.
There was a beautiful meat and cheese spread, as well as a five spice butternut squash terrine with a fig and mint ganache, balsamic cherries, and a white chocolate cream. Talk about a good start to an evening…
After spending seemingly the entire week in a funk because of sickness, I somehow (miraculously) managed to nurse myself back to health in time for the weekend's festivities. I had plans to attend Clearwater Beach Uncorked, and darn it, I needed to be in good health!
We attended the very first Uncorked event back in 2012 and had an enjoyable time, so Justin and I were looking forward to experiencing how the event has grown over the past two years. Clearwater Beach Uncorked is a yearly event that takes place outside under a tent on Clearwater Beach (in front of the Hyatt); a perfect location to wiggle your toes in the soft white sand. Attendees are treated to food from local restaurants, wine (of course), some spirits, and food related products. This year, a DJ played music to keep the mood light, and merriment ensued as guests moved from table to table.
Tis the season, everyone!
What better way to herald in the holiday season than with a Buche de Noel (also known as a yule log)? If you are not familiar with this particular dessert, it is traditionally a rolled cake in the shape of a log that is served near Christmastime. Typically, a Buche de Noel is a roulade style cake, very similar to a giant sized Hostess Ho Ho.
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YOUNGSTOWN — City council approved legislation today that Youngstown officials hope will convince a Vallourec Star subsidiary to invest $81.5 million to build a steel-pipe threading facility about a mile from the company's $1.1 billion expansion mill.
The company, which negotiated with the city on this project for several months, is expected to make a final decision in the next 90 days, said city Finance Director David Bozanich.
The company wants to use the former Genmak Steel building and an additional 67,500 square feet nearby in the city's Ohio Works Business Park for the VAM USA LLC threading plant.
The facility would employ 84 full-time workers by early next year, according to VAM's 10-year, 75-percent real-property tax abatement application.
The company wanted the city to approve the abatement before making a commitment on the expansion, Bozanich said.
Also today, council approved legislation to spend about $60,000 to relocate 11,000 cubic yards of dirt located at the proposed VAM site.
For the complete story, read Thursday's Vindicator and Vindy.com
...at least the Mayor and City Council decided tonight to give Vallourec Steel a 75% (that's SEVENTY FIVE with a "7" and a "5") tax abatement to create 90 gigantic jobs (that's 10 less than 100) in a city that has thousands of unemployed in the inner city, ensuring the city coffers will continue to not have enough cash to demolish the thousands of blighted homes in Youngstown, (or, say, hire a few more first responders, or, maybe even lower our immorally overinflated water bills, or - God forbid - invest in renewable energy so that Ytown can lead the nation into the future instead of falling further into the scrap heap of history as a third world, fossil fuel extraction colony) because they just couldn't stand firm and bargain for, say, a 50%, or - wait for it - a 25%, (OH NO!) tax break, especially since everyone and their daughter knows there's no fracking way this corporation is going to walk away from their billion dollar investment, even IF our city officials had the cojones to actually force them to contribute a few dollars more to the betterment of the community in which they're making their record profits!
Oh no, of course we wouldn't want that...
(I'm sorry, was I being too sarcastic?)
This article provides a very graphic description of Youngstown's urban blight crises:
"So, in a perverse vicious cycle, the cities themselves will likely be on the hook to dig deeper into their already decimated tax bases, and foot the bill to remove the houses. It is a no-win situation: ignore the problem, and watch the blight and disinvestment spread even farther, or spend money that you don't have, raise taxes, and drive more residents and businesses away, in order to try to keep things from getting worse."
"If you are skeptical about this future projection, the future is already here. Today, over 15,000 houses in Cleveland sit abandoned. In Akron, the number is around 2,300. And in Youngstown, a city of 65,000, that used to have 170,000 residents, an estimated 5,000 abandoned houses and 20,000 vacant lots pose a problem almost too overwhelming to comprehend."


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Studies show that a number of factors can raise a woman's risk of primary high blood pressure. In the United States, blacks are twice as likely as whites to have high blood pressure, although the gap begins to narrow around age 44. After age 65, black women have a higher rate of high blood pressure than any other group of people.
You're also more likely to develop high blood pressure if you have a family history of the disease, and your risk increases as you age.
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About 5 to 10 percent of cases of high blood pressure are due to underlying conditions such as kidney abnormalities, tumors of the adrenal gland, congenital heart defects, and certain medications such as birth control pills, cold remedies, and decongestants. This type of high blood pressure, called secondary hypertension, tends to appear suddenly and cause higher blood pressure than primary hypertension.
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