   Game companies in Tidewater, VA
  Does anyone know of any game companies in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area of Virginia?  I have checked www.gamejobs.com and a few other sites, but the closest I can find is Mythic in Fairfax, VA.Thanks,--Mike   
  Considering I've never heard of the town of Tidewater (and neither has Google Maps), I'd recommend you move somewhere where jobs are more plentiful.I think Epic's in Raleigh NC.   ;  I'd highly recommend that you move up to the DC metroplex, Mythic has an office up here and a few other companies are in the area as well. Bethesda has an office in Rockville, which is still pretty close to Bethesda.  Also, you won't find much about it on these forums but there are many companies who do game development for the government, more along the lines of 'serious games' instead of recreational, but still good jobs.  Firaxis has an office north of Baltimore as well.  Cary, NC is also fairly reasonable for a relocation and Epic has job openings there.For what it's worth, is an area of southeast Virginia as well as a tiny town on the Rappahannock River.  Either way, it's not exactly a hub of software development.Addendum: Big Huge Games also has an office in the Baltimore area.  Day 1 Studios (makers of Mechwarrior for the X-Box according to their site) has a studio in the same town as Firaxis (Hunt Valley, MD).  There are other places as well, but these are the only ones I was able to find with current job openings.  Mythic seems to have a lot of job openings, even if they aren't a perfect fit they can probably start you somewhere in the industry.  Their web site makes it look like they're really ramping up things for Warhammer.   ;Quote:Original post by RavuyaConsidering I've never heard of the town of Tidewater (and neither has Google Maps), I'd recommend you move somewhere where jobs are more plentiful.That's because Tidewater isn't a city/town, it's more of a collection of cities.  Hampton Roads (Tidewater, both names can be interchanged) is made of like 10 cities (Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Hampton, Newport News, Suffolk, Williamsburg, etc).  We're the ass of Virginia.;Quote:Original post by Coaster KevQuote:Original post by RavuyaConsidering I've never heard of the town of Tidewater (and neither has Google Maps), I'd recommend you move somewhere where jobs are more plentiful.That's because Tidewater isn't a city/town, it's more of a collection of cities.Oh.Quote:We're the ass of Virginia.You guys should put that in your commercials.   ;Quote:Original post by JRaveyI'd highly recommend that you move up to the DC metroplex, Mythic has an office up here and a few other companies are in the area as well. Bethesda has an office in Rockville, which is still pretty close to Bethesda.  Also, you won't find much about it on these forums but there are many companies who do game development for the government, more along the lines of 'serious games' instead of recreational, but still good jobs.  Firaxis has an office north of Baltimore as well.  Cary, NC is also fairly reasonable for a relocation and Epic has job openings there.For what it's worth, is an area of southeast Virginia as well as a tiny town on the Rappahannock River.  Either way, it's not exactly a hub of software development.Addendum: Big Huge Games also has an office in the Baltimore area.  Day 1 Studios (makers of Mechwarrior for the X-Box according to their site) has a studio in the same town as Firaxis (Hunt Valley, MD).  There are other places as well, but these are the only ones I was able to find with current job openings.  Mythic seems to have a lot of job openings, even if they aren't a perfect fit they can probably start you somewhere in the industry.  Their web site makes it look like they're really ramping up things for Warhammer.Thanks for the info.  I actually already live in Chantilly, just west of Fairfax.  As for those serious-games, I already work for "one of those companies" doing just that.  My wife would like to move back to the VaBeach area because that's where her family is from.  I can get to VaBeach through a defense contractor, I'd just prefer a game studio.