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For 25 years, George Lucas has had a problem. He's been the Darth Vader of an evil developing empire.
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Design Team: Dan Brown, Adam Crowley, Jonathan Tramba
Area: 6,800 sqm
Completion: July 2010
Photographs: Matthew Hufft, Andrew Fabin
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Client: Companhia de Seguros Lusitânia
Completion: 2009
Construction Area: 2,300 sqm
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Landscape Architecture: Proap
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Hydraulic plans: Ductos
Photographs: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
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Photographs: Thorsten Humpel
Only 6 hours left to help fund Jimenez Lai's Hefner/Beuys House!
Last month we shared with you Jimenez Lai's vision to transform the Architecture Foundation's Project Space in London with a cartoonish architectural installation of Super Furniture… inspired by the exhibitionism of Hugh Hefner with the live-art of Joseph Beuys.
La Salut Market Square / Vora Arquitectura
Architects: Vora Arquitectura
Location: Av marquès de Sant Mori s/n, Badalona, Spain
Design Team: Eva Cotman, Anna Malaguti, Ondrej Fabian
Completion: 2010
Area: 1,000 sqm
Photographs: Adrià Goula Sardà
LEGO Architecture Landmark Series: Sungnyemun
LEGO has unveiled their latest model in the Architecture Landmark series: the Gate of Exalted Ceremonies in Seoul, better known as the Sungnyemun.
Sungnyemun is the series first Asian landmark and one of the most complete examples of Joseon Dynasty architecture. Standing in the heart of Seoul since 1398, Sungnyemun was once one of three major gateways through Seoul's historic city walls. It is listed first among the National Treasure of South Korea.
Sungnyemun is the fifteenth model in the LEGO® Architecture series, which uses the LEGO brick to interpret the designs of iconic architecture around the world.
VillaLóla / ARKÍS architects
Architects: ARKÍS architects
Location: Akureyri, Iceland
Size: 128 sqm
Completion: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy ARKÍS architects
modeLab Scripted Design Workshop
Studio Mode / modeLab… is putting on the Scripted Design Workshop June 9-10, which will introduce participants to the fundamental concepts for designing with programs in Python for Rhinoceros. As the next installment in the coLab Series, they are welcoming
Stockholmsmässan Main Entrance / Rosenbergs Arkitekter
With over a million visitors annually, Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö is one of the world's leading organisers of exhibitions, conferences and public fairs. The new entrance, designed by Rosenbergs Arkitekter…, starts construction this month and is expected to be completed
House for Five / RTA Studio
Architects: RTA Studio
Location: Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand
Area: 280 sqm
Photographs: Patrick Reynolds
Andronikos Hotel Interiors / Klab Architecture
Greek firm, KLab Architecture, has designed a series of suites for Mykonos, one of the most popular summertime destinations (the island's population rises from 10,000 to 50,000 seasonally). As is typical of KLab's work (check out their Urban Cubes project previously featured), their hotel project looks to the vernacular language of island's vocabulary and capitalizes on the environment's relationship between the landscape and the sea, to formulate a modern interpretation of the cycladic architecture that has evolved over centuries.
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Since robots have been in the news a bit lately, I thought this year I would get my robot to write you all a little Christmas Poem. I'm not entirely sure he understands the concept of Christmas, so much, but I think you'll agree he captures the spirit pretty damn well.
A Merry Yuletide to you all, wherever you may be and however you may choose to spend the festive season!
If you're so inclined, you can make your own robot-composed poem here.
Sun 15 Dec 2013
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No-one else is running with that headline, so I'm just doing my duty…
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Sat 23 Feb 2013
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So at last, my mysterious project is complete.
You saw Laura a couple of days ago as she arrived, straight out of the box. She was not quite as perfect as I would have liked, so the first step involved some surgery…
As did the second step. 'Trust me Laura,' I said 'I'm a doctor'. Well, I'm a Reverend, and that's as good as, right? I mean, with
God the Cow on my side, how can I do wrong? A little release of intracranial pressure…
Ah, that's better. And now for the pièce de résistance… And Binauralaura (Laura to her friends) is ready to begin to listen…
Binauralaura is my new binaural recording rig. Here begins the edumacation part of this post, so those who came for the titillation can now go watch Fox news and eat donuts.
To start, you should know that when you hear a stereo recording of sound or music – pretty much any recording – it is presented to your ear in a very different way to the way in which you actually hear in reality. There are many reasons for this, but the main one is that most sound recordings, and most music recordings in particular, use a somewhat artificial method to render their stereophonic sonic landscape. In a standard electronically-reproduced stereo domain, the stereo image is created from two point sources – your two hifi speakers, or two headphone speakers – each of which is fed by a discrete channel of recorded sound. All sound in a stereo field is thus contained in two separate, but interconnected, recordings – one for left and one for right. In simple terms, if a sound is only in the left channel, it will appear to come from your left. If it is only in the right channel, it will appear to come from your right. In almost all modern recordings, when an engineer wishes to make a sound feel like it is originating elsewhere in the stereo image – slightly left of centre, for instance – it is made slightly louder in the left channel than it is in the right. To make it appear to be right in front of you – or 'centre' as we say – then the volume is made exactly equal for both the left and the right channels. For over half a century, this result has been achieved by 'panning' the sound on a mixing console. A panner is simply a control that varies the amount of signal (or loudness) added to each channel.
In the real world, though, our ears don't judge the position of a sound in space solely by its loudness. Certainly, loudness is one aspect of the mechanism, but there are numerous other factors in play. The principal one is a component of time. If you hear a dog barking somewhere ahead of you, and slightly to the left, one of your ears will be receiving a slightly greater sound pressure (loudness) than the other. But crucially, that same ear will be hearing the sound very slightly before your other ear does. The human brain can, in fact, differentiate time differences smaller than 10 microseconds between your two ears, and it is that ability which allows us to aurally locate objects in space with an accuracy of about 1 degree.(i)(ii) Up until very recently, this time component could not be easily recreated in a studio mixing environment, and since – like most things – the recording process is a trade-off between the achievement of perfection and economic imperative, the old panning paradigm is still alive and well (and dominant) in modern sound mixing facilities. I would make a rough guess that 99.9% of all music and sound you hear is rendered to stereo with crude analogue panning.
Now, some of you may be ahead of me slightly here, and interject: 'But Reverend, what about a recording made solely with two microphones? There's no mixing console involved there (so no artificial panning) and the sound of any object off centre to the microphones must arrive at slightly different times for each? Surely that's preserved in a recording?'
Well, yes indeed. Two separate microphones (or a coincident stereo pair, to use the lingo) will indeed preserve the delay times inherent in the scene being recorded but they still don't hear the world like our ears do.
The important thing to understand at this point is that when it comes to human hearing, our eardrums – our 'microphones' if you like – are only part of the story. There are several other key players in the process, the most important of which is our brain. Our brain and ears work together to 'hear' the world, and the way we hear is a lot more complex and clever than you probably ever stopped to think about.
One thing that every one of us knows (because our brain figures it out pretty much as soon as we are born) is that our ears are separated from one another by a head. Everything we experience in the realm of natural hearing is mitigated by this big noggin right in the middle of things. And our brain calculates our aural experience by taking it into account as it forms our sonic picture of the world. Likewise, we are accustomed to hearing our surroundings via two fleshy reflectors that funnel the sound toward the vibrating membranes that actually detect the sound waves. The complicated contours of our ears – the pinnae – don't simply look like they do for decoration. The whorls and cavities of the ear surface impose certain kinds of characteristics on the sound that reaches them, and these help us with sound localisation, and, to a certain extent, with the perception of fidelity.
Which brings me all the way back to Binauralaura. Laura's head contains a pair of high fidelity omnidirectional microphones that sit in her ears just at about the place where the outside part of the human ear canal would start.(iii)
Her silicon pinnae are created from a CT scan of real human ears and these and her head create an aural 'shadow' which will match, in a generic way, the listening field of most humans.(iv) This means that a recording made with Binauralaura, will sound about as real as an audio recording can sound.(v)
So if binaural recording is so magnificent, why isn't it used for everything? Well, there is, of course, a catch. The binaural effect can only properly be discerned by wearing headphones. For the binaural image to remain coherent, the sound for one ear must not interfere with the sound for the other. Additionally, in order to avoid a doubling of the head and pinnae shadow (one gained from the recording, and then a second from the listener's own head and pinnae), the reproduced sound needs to be played back as close to the listener's ear canal entrance as possible. The most expedient method to do this is via headphones or earbuds.(vi) Wearing headphones to properly hear binaural sound is, in fact, analogous to the requirement to wear glasses to see 3D images (indeed, binaural sound is often described as '3D' or 'holophonic' sound).
I've had some opportunities to take Laura out for a bit of a test spin, and so far, the results are pretty nice. Here's a short clip. Remember – wear headphones or earbuds to listen to it. One thing you will immediately notice is the clarity and and detail of the sound space. If your hearing is fair, you may also detect one of the extraordinary features of binaural sound – something you will not hear in a conventional stereophonic recording – and that is the ability to localise sound height. Have a listen now, and see why I went to all the trouble to build Binauralaura.
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The BBC reports this week that soon we won't need to build robots any longer. Instead we can simply print them. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania have attracted a 10 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to help them realise a printable robot, a concept which would mean robots could be beamed directly into your home via the internet and assembled in your lounge room.
Well, we all know how that's likely to turn out, right?
Of course, it's not something that's likely to happen overnight – unless you have the resources of the Tetherd Cow Ahead Laboratories behind you. When I ran the idea past the boffins downstairs they were of the considered opinion that achieving a printable robot would be a doddle, and true to their word, this morning they had one all ready to go. And let me tell you, there was no $10 million dollar grant involved.
It is therefore, my dear Acowlytes, my pleasure to present for your technological delectation, the Tetherd Cow Ahead Printable Robot:
Just click on the pic above and a printer friendly pdf will appear. Print it on a piece of card, cut it out, and you're well ahead of those lamers from MIT and Harvard. All that remains is for you to find some useful jobs for your robot to undertake. I have provided a few suggestions to set you on your way to the new Printable Robot Future!
The possibilities are literally infinite! (BTW – anyone from MIT or one of those other thinktanks reading: we are prepared to make our technology available at a suitable price. Don't feel embarrassed that we beat you to the draw – we have some pretty sophisticated tech at work down here.)
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Researchers at the Cornell Creative Machine Lab came up with the brilliant idea of getting Cleverbot, their 'intelligent' chat program, to engage with its own doppelganger.
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***** We recently changed the sofa/bed to a new one , it is more comfortable , and is larger and has more space for lounge as well ,it has storage under neath and it is L shape.
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Unlimited, reliable and fast Wifi & Broadband in home with a free access to thousands of Wifi hotspots in London to use wherever, whenever if even you are away from the flat touring around the city.
Flat is comfortable , tidy ,cozy, recently renovated and decorated in stylish way. It has a nice and always hot water ready power shower , the patio not only gives a good natural light and fresh air but also can be used as lounge when weather is nice. Smokers can smoke out in patio. Plenty of space in several cabinets and wardrobes to store your stuff and baggage.
The studio is rather small but it is very well designed for your convenient , good natural of light even during gloomy days of London.
Flat has everything you might need for a short stay such as fridge/freezer, Washing machine and hair dryer , Microwave, kattle ... plates and all cooking tools and pans and even a good brand new oven and grill and gas cooker ... and a small plasma vision facing your double sofa/bed for the time you lounge and relax to watch from many entertaining channels.
On Arrival:
- Clean and lined bedding set and towels will be provided
- Cafe/tea/sugar/breakfast cereal
- City attraction map and all necessary information on directions will be provided
- ... and let me know if you may need anything else, I want you feel comfortable and home in this lovely small specious studio flat.
Highlight about Spacious Little Venice Studio Flat:
- Great , Fast and Easy 24 hours connection to centre
- Lovely , Safe and very Convenient neighbourhood area
- Modern , Stylish and Excellent design open plan studio flat
- Fully equipped kitchen
- Double comfy sofa/bed
- Plasma TV with satellite channels
- Mobile fast WIFI even you can take it with you to the city so you'll have internet everywhere you go and it is free.
- Excellent always ready hot shower
- Clean space, bedding and towels
Q - Is the area safe?
A - It is one of the safest neighborhood in London.
Q - What Time is Check in?
A - 2 pm
Q - Can I check in early?
A - Unfortunately not. We have to get the place nice and clean for you which takes at least two hours.
Q - Late check in?
A - until 10:00pm is normal to arrange but check-in after 10:00pm would cost £30 cash on check-in fees.
Q - Can I drop my bags there early?
A - Yes, but we have to agree about them before.
Q- Can I check in Late.
A- Yes we accept check in up till midnight but please inform us of the time you are coming at least couple of days prior to your arrival to arrange it. NOT THE LAST DAY.
Q - What Time is Check Out?
A - 12pm NOON
Q - Can I Check out late?
A - No, Sorry
Q- Is it completely Private
The Neighborhood
Little Venice canal is very lovely , beautiful , green , quiet and safe area superb for walk , dinning out or just relaxing
Maida Vale is one of the most desirable neighbourhood of London central areas. it is quiet and safe but still close to centre of London.
Getting around
Maida Vale Underground station connecting via Bakerloo line
Buses stop on door step connecting easy and fast and cheap to centre and touristic attractions.
No Smoking indoor. No pets . Smoking inside has £50 penalty.
Write me please details of your arrival prior to your arrival.
- Leave keys inside when you leave and slam the door.
-Latest check-out is 12pm (noon) sometimes flexible
-Earliest Check-in is 2pm but baggage drop can be arranged from 12pm
- Late Check-in fees of £20 applies to check in after 10:00pm. you will pay this in cash to the person who will check you in upon arrival if you arrive later than 10:00pm
Our stay in this apartment was very pleasant.
The apartment is very convenient and you will find everything you need.
The tube is 10 min walk and the way to go is nice.
Alix was very helpful and reactive.
I deeply recommend this apartment.
Het appartement is precies zoals je op de foto's ziet. Het is erg schoon en heeft alles wat je nodig hebt voor een relaxed verblijf! De ligging is perfect! De bus stopt voor de deur en brengt je tot Marble arch en Oxford street! Wij gingen de eerste dagen veel met de metro, maar met de bus is veel leuker omdat je dan veel meer van de stad ziet.
Op de hoek is een klein winkeltje waar je werkelijk alles kunt krijgen! Van afbakbroodjes tot soep en diepvriesproducten en niet duur.
Een tip voor de Nederlanders onder ons..denk eraan dat ze hier andere stopcontacten hebben dan wij!
We hebben Alix helaas niet kunnen ontmoeten, maar ondanks dat heeft hij veel contact met ons gehouden en was heel goed bereikbaar.
Wij zouden zeker weer terug komen naar dit appartement bij ons volgende bezoek aan Londen.
Clean and convenient, close to tube in nice area. Alix very helpful, flexible and available. Flat is similar size to hotel room with a sofa instead of bed, but is reasonably comfortable. Nice to have kitchen etc. It's below ground with glassdoor exit to small garden, and no other windows. A bit damp. Very good tv, wifi, washing machine etc. To conclude, at same price as 2-3 star hotel rooms, benefit is the kitchen and appliances. Recommended if you need that.
I had a great experience in Alix's apartment. The neighborhood is amazing, calm and a great place to recover the energies that we spend in London. Near to the tube, and you also can go to Camden Town by boat in a pituresque boat trip. Alix was great, kind, present when it's needed, a great host. Thank you!
Alix and his assistant Mahtab are so helpful and available.
Just to say we had a super stay in Alix's studio. Everything is clean, tidy and very practical. A real home from home.
Bus stop just across the road tube station 5 mins walk. The neighborhood is very safe and quiet, as is the flat.
We highly recommend this space.
Enjoy !!! Sincerely Susan and Jérome
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I'm Alix who manage these listings.I'm responsive , responsible and care about the comfort of my guests.
People say I'm friendly, reliable, trustworthy and helpful and open minded.
I enjoy art , cooking , travelling , socialising with meeting interesting and friendly people
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Timegate Studios Reviews
- Sugar Land, TX
- Any Job Title
14 Employee ReviewsSort: Popular Rating Date
2 people found this helpful
"Not Much to Complain About. "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
I have been working at Timegate Studios full-time (more than a year)Pros
- Laid back atmosphere.
- Coworkers are the nicest and most helpful people anyone could hope to work with.
- Despite what some say, management really tries to come up with ways to keep everyone happy, with surprise activities, free soda/gourmet coffee/dinner, pitchfest, social activities, etc.
- Competitive pay. IMO, slightly higher than industry when taking in to account the cost of living in Houston.Cons
- Senior management has unrealistic expectations considering Timegate's status in the industry. Because of that, their attitude seems to be "my way or the highway".Advice to ManagementAdvice
To upper management-
First off, come to work. When you are out of the office as many days as you are in, it gives off the message that you don't want to be there, you don't care about the success of the projects, you expect the employees to work harder/care more than you, and that you're just there for the paycheck. If you do happen to come in, try and make it for more than a couple of hours. 12:00 - 4:00 does not count.
To mid-upper management-
Reality check. Despite what you think it WILL hurt you to lose us. Considering the fact that no one in senior management has ever had a job outside of Timegate, and they really don't have any talent, accomplishments, or skills aside from years ofecterience which ultimately led to their high-ranking titles. Coming in on a weekend during crunch time to ask what you can do to help (or just being seen trying to help) would go a lot further than dropping off food.
To job hunters-
If you are a self-motivated worker, then Timegate is the perfect place to work. If you get your work done, you can pretty much do whatever you want. If you're the type that needs constant direction, recognition and validation (like the other Timegate Glassdoor reviewers) you will most likely end up unhappy.RecommendsNeutral Outlook
"Extremely Poor Management and Low Morale "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
I worked at Timegate Studios full-time (more than 3 years)Pros
* Because turnover is so high, it was relatively easy to get promoted quickly
* Free soda in the breakroom and "free" dinner if you work overtimeCons
* Management is incompetent and refuse to try to improve themselves. Instead, they push all blame onto the employees and others.
* The company mantra is "process over people" and they view all employees as replaceable. One underpaid employee was even told after asking for more money that they should "be thankful they just have a job in this economy".
* Turnover was approximately 50% annually, which is extremely damaging to the dynamic of the team.
* Positive feedback is nearly impossible to receive unless a process was done "correctly" (even if the end result was bad).
* The company is constantly in legal disputes with other companies and is often accused of being fraudulent.
* Mostly entry level employees are hired (cheaply), which can be fine, but there's little to no training after they join.Advice to ManagementAdvice
* Take some responsibility for yourself and realize that almost every manager underneath you mimics your management style, which hurts the company greatly.
* Please don't give yourself $45k bonuses and continue to fly first class and stay in Presidential suites after the company lays off employees.Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEO
"Only good for getting into the industry. Nothing else. "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
I worked at Timegate Studios full-time (more than a year)Pros
-The devs. Best and most talented group of people I have ever worked with. If it wasn't for them I would have left long ago.Cons
-Upper management.
-No one ever knows anything until a decision is made. No dev input whatsoever.
-Majority of management have only worked at TG. Only know the "TG" way.
-If you criticize anything you are ostracized and let go.
-Kill any chance of there being a "culture". If it wasn't their idea to begin with, it isn't happening.
-Have to uproot your life and come to Houston? Don't. There are no other studios nearby and they are notorious for laying off staff in droves. You will have to relocate yourself again.
-Moved one dev across the country only to offer them a position that does not involve making video games. (offered position with a sister company) Game industry pay but not making games...
-Unless they dump upper management they will always create mediocre products.
Unless you are in dire need of a job or really wanting to get your foot in the door avoid this studio.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Open the floor up and let the studio in. Only coming forth when you are announcing something or laying a ton of people off is not acceptable. You will only continue making mediocre products and word of mouth will continue to be "the guys that made section 8 and the hack job Aliens game".Doesn't RecommendNegative Outlook
"Only good for getting your foot in the door, if that. "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
I worked at Timegate Studios full-time (more than a year)Pros
Free soda.
Free dinner if you work late.
Sugar Land is a great city to live in.
They promote from within often because of high turn over.Cons
Pay is terrible.
This is a production run studio, and what they say goes.
Departments don't collaborate much with each other, as it isn't encouraged.
Play tests aren't important to the studio (though they say otherwise).
Constantly left in the dark about studio progress and development until something good happens.
They hire cheap "talent" over actual talent.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Just be open to the employees about what's going on. Don't cover up the fact that the studio is struggling to find income.
Let the design team run things and stop promoting QA to fill positions that they aren't qualified for.Doesn't RecommendNegative Outlook
I have been working at Timegate StudiosPros
-Free soda!
-Free lunch and dinner!
-Great coworkers
-Get to make video games!Cons
-Crunch time
-Communication could be betterRecommends
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I worked at Timegate StudiosPros
Overall talented peers and individuals - artists, designers and programmers alike
Free beverages
Due to the turnover rate, one takes on new roles and responsibilities quicklyCons
Management needs anger management, I've personally been threatened 5 times with HR write ups for missing deadlines on tasks that were to my knowledge completed. His attitude successfully robs you of any sense of accomplishment, so it feels very much like a Death March week to week, iteration to iteration. I'm already past burn out.
Policy enforcement seems very here-say and voluntary, especially when Management violates the same Policies it enforces - still not out of the woods from that. Or when conflicting to policy orders come from the President himself, such as pushing out marketing changes to the sites and portals.
The salary no longer satisfies the 50-60 hour work weeks and the level of drama as of day-to-day.Advice to ManagementAdvice
My folks once told me, if you can't speak in a constructive, positive, or polite and respectful tone, don't speak at all.Doesn't Recommend
3 people found this helpful
I have been working at Timegate StudiosPros
* Opportunities to pick up a lot of skills very quickly. (As a result of getting thrust into a bunch of different roles without much say in the matter.)
* Able to work with interesting (and young) people.
* Free drinks and 'free' dinner when you work an extra two hours each night.Cons
* Management and process overload. Upper management is so convinced in the necessity for 'process' and 'protocol' that they can't see when it doesn't work and why it breaks down so easily.
* Asinine minutiae: I've actually been yelled at for using a '/' instead of a '-' when typing a date out. Our corporate parent is some tight-assed healthcare company which burns through employees faster than we do, so we get a lot of our straight-laced nonsense from them.
* Involuntary voluntary overtime - they can't *force* us to work 9a-9p, but the messaging is very clear: If you're not here, you're lazy and we'll fire you the moment we can.
* Sycophants get ahead by filling seats, brown nosing with the bosses, and shadowing them.
* God help you if you want to change anything. There's a very strong 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' mentality despite upper management's 'claims' of striving for continuous improvement.
* The whole place feels like it's designed to churn through people like a machine. Get some kid fresh out of school, pay him an insulting salary, burn him out, then fire him and cite 'laziness' or 'a bad attitude'
* You work far more than you're compensated for. I've known people at other studios to do one fifth of what an AP or Concept Artists here does and get paid 1.5-2x as much.
* The production people who aren't senior look depressed every day and always have their heads down. it's depressing
* Morale is low and they try to buy us off with token 'employee of the month' programs where people get (and I wish I was kidding) nerf guns as prizes
* The company owners have a love affair with Blizzard's website and copy it whenever possible. Just open the new TimeGate site and Blizzard's home site in facing windows and see.Advice to ManagementAdvice
The single biggest piece of advice I can give to upper management is this: Take the power away from the brothers who run TimeGate and its parent company, Healix. They have no idea what makes a good game and they routinely run roughshod over anyone who speaks out and I've even heard they told the creative director 'Don't forget who signs your paychecks.' when he objected one of their particularly asinine 'requests.' (Design mandates, in other words.)
Also, it'd help to abandon the notion that TimeGate is a AAA studio. They aren't and they never will be. They're mid-grade at best and so long as they think they can make the next Halo or CoD, their products will always be rushed out, half-complete messes.Doesn't Recommend
3 people found this helpful
I worked at Timegate StudiosPros
* Overall, full of very talented and intelligent people
* Friendly and helpful coworkers
* A great place to learn (always new challenges to solve)
* Great locationCons
* Very production and email heavy (process over people)
* Lots of bottlenecks in the day-to-day process (very little trust placed in developers)
* Purposefully little project visibility/direction given out
* Direct communication to other departments is prohibitedAdvice to ManagementAdvice
I think TimeGate would do better if it went back to being a small company making amazing expansions or smaller titles. I don't think they currently have the right process in place for making AAA titles. As a result of this flawed process, I've seen an exceedingly high turnover rate and overall dissatisfaction among the employees. Instead of addressing the problem, the process has simply been updated to account for a high turnover rate. This is not how you keep your talented individuals (of which, there are still many), or how you ship AAA titles.
To their credit, I must say that I wouldn't be at the level I am now if it weren't for this great company. I wish TimeGate the best of luck on its next title, and salute each and every one of the amazing people still there, working their asses off.
3 people found this helpful
"Not a good place to be for long "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Career Opportunities
I worked at Timegate StudiosPros
-Work along side creative and passionate coworkers.
-Laid back atmosphere amongst employees
-General low cost of living within the areaCons
-Low employee morale.
-Poor salaries and benefits. Worst I've ever seen in the industry.
-Over micromanagement. Way too many producers for such a small studio. On a given day, more management updating and task management is done than actual development work by employees.
-Upper management is out of touch with its employees and fails to recognize their faults.
-Turnover rate is high, it's actually a goal to get out of there eventually.
-The passionate, creative, and talented individuals, (even the senior level), are inhibited and suppressed by the management. The general attitude is to break the employees down to demonstrate superiority of upper management.
-Management has a heightened sense of position within the industry.Advice to ManagementAdvice
-Keep the owner out of the development process. The only thing he did was bring morale down and belittle others to increase his self esteem.
-Trust your employees. Let them do good work. Keep them on track of course, but let them do what you hired them to do.
-Pay your employees what they're worth.
-Less production staff and more development staff will increase the quality of your titles and in the end, increase the sales of your products.
-Recognize that TimeGate isn't competing as a AAA studio, adjust the scope and expectation of the projects, and the quality will rise as well as the studio's renown.Doesn't Recommend
6 people found this helpful
"Worst Place I've Ever Worked "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Career Opportunities
I have been working at Timegate StudiosPros
- Skilled and pleasant coworkers. Despite all the negatives below I really enjoy working with the people there.
- Cheap place to live
- High turnover can mean more headroom for moving up.. it only takes 2 years here to be considered "senior," which may position you well for your next job (though it's a double edged sword.)
- If you enjoy corporate gallows humor, you may find Timegate to be very entertainingCons
- Worst micromanagement you could ever imagine.
- If management doesn't like your time estimates, they will replace it with one they like better. The same with any other facts you might have.
- You will be asked to rename and move things incessantly because it's not exactly what management would have done. As any veteran knows, this causes things to break and burns a lot of development time. And of course it is your fault when it breaks.
- Employees are heavily overworked: You will be asked to agree to doing a certain chunk of work over a period of time (currently 3 weeks.) However, not one day after this agreement you will get additional work and will continue to receive new work until the very last day of this time period, and when you don't complete the full load you agreed to, plus the many things that get assigned to you, you will be seen as a failure by management.
- You will be judged by how much overtime you put in, not how much you accomplish
- Interchangable parts were invented long ago. I think Timegate is trying to invent interchangable humans.
- When any issue arises, emphasis (even obsession) is placed on finding who is at fault, rather than finding solutions. Shockingly, it is never management's fault.
- Not getting yelled at is probably the highest praise you will ever receive here.
- Low morale and high turnover rate. Timegate shows no loyalty to its people, so its little surprise when its people show little loyalty to Timegate.
- You will find it very challenging to care about the quality of your work here.Advice to ManagementAdvice
The difference between Timegate and successful studios is this: Timegate is process driven and successful studios are people driven. Your process at its best can never be as good as the people you can hire. The only reason your process "works" is because at the end of the day, in spite of the process, the people are passionate enough to get the game out the door, and passionate enough to care about the quality of their work. This heavy process removes any sense of ownership or pride for your work and does not scale, because the process bottlenecks at a few specific micromanagers.
Also, please quit treating us like children. Layoffs and voluntary job changes are treated in such a clandestine way.. we know when someone is quitting probably before you do. And little certificates that you can use to win "prizes" cannot replace being genuinely appreciated. When coupled with all the abuse you put your employees though, it's like a slap in the face.
The way I see Timegate is as a stopover for fresh college graduates. You put in your time here for a year or two and then move to a different job that isn't terrible as quickly as you can.Doesn't Recommend
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The project cost stands at Rs 20 crore to light up 35,000 LED lights and the entire cost would be borne by the Energy Efficiency Services Limited.
An RTI application last year had revealed that, the civic body had distributed sweets worth Rs 94 lakh to its staff on the occasion of Holi.
"The Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) has signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with Energy Efficiency Services Limited."
The indices fell 7.7 per cent on Monday, their biggest one-day drop since the global financial crisis, as many financial shares plunged by their 10 per cent daily limit.
Toshiba has a global network of over 590 consolidated companies employing over 200,000 people. It has annual sales of over $ 63 billion.
While the breakdown of the data will not be available for two weeks, the report is "a clear sign that lower oil prices have found their way into consumers' pockets," Brzeski said.
Texas based RadioShack plans to sell 2,400 of its 4,100 stores to an affiliate of hedge fund Standard General, which in turn plans to sell 1,750 stores to Sprint.
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250 Columbus Avenue
Upper West Side, New York, 10023
Commute to Downtown West New York
Daily errands do not require a car.
World-class public transportation.
Flat as a pancake, excellent bike lanes.
Score Details
250 Columbus Avenue has a Walk Score of 100 out of 100. This location is a Walker's Paradise so daily errands do not require a car.
250 Columbus Avenue is a four minute walk from the 1 Broadway - 7 Avenue Local, the 2 7 Avenue Express and the 3 7 Avenue Express at the 72 St stop.
This location is in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York. Nearby parks include Verdi Square, Bowling Green Fountain and Sheep Meadow.
Nearby schools include Robert Louis Stevenson School, Blessed Sacrament School and Beit Rabban.
The closest grocery stores are Gotham Food, Azaka News Inc and C P Yang Corporation.
Nearby coffee shops include Le Pain Quotidien, Cafe Tallulah and Alice's Tea Cup, Chapter I. Nearby restaurants include Riposo 72, Cafe Ronda and Columbus Gourmet Food.
250 Columbus Avenue is near Sherman Square, Verdi Square and GreenFlea Flea Market (SUNDAY).
There are excellent bike lanes and the terrain is flat as a pancake. 250 Columbus Avenue is very bikeable, biking is convenient for most trips. Bike sharing is available from Citi Bike.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 250 Columbus Avenue.
250 Columbus Avenue is a Rider's Paradise which means world-class public transportation. Car sharing is available from Zipcar, Hertz On Demand, RelayRides and Enterprise CarShare.
Rail lines:
B 6 Avenue Express
0.2 mi
C 8 Avenue Local
0.2 mi
A 8 Avenue Express
0.2 mi
3 7 Avenue Express
0.2 mi
2 7 Avenue Express
0.2 mi
1 Broadway - 7 Avenue Local
0.2 mi
D 6 Avenue Express
0.6 mi
Q Broadway Express
0.9 mi
N Broadway Express
0.9 mi
R Broadway Local
0.9 mi
Bus lines:
M72 East Side - West Side
0.0 mi
M11 Riverbank Park & Harlem - West Village
0.0 mi
M7 Harlem - 14th Street
0.0 mi
Eastside NYC
0.1 mi
M10 Harlem - Columbus Circle
0.1 mi
M5 George Washington Bridge - South Ferry
0.2 mi
M104 West Harlem - Times Square
0.2 mi
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250 Columbus Avenue is in the Upper West Side neighborhood. Upper West Side is the 25th most walkable neighborhood in New York with a neighborhood Walk Score of 97.
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