Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?
The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a
shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists,
level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to
move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should
email Dave.
Yeah, um, i'm looking to sell my car. Can i get a story on Slashdot too?
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first post!
1) I like playing games where I get to shoot things.
2) ???
3) Hire me!
Its definetly a once in a life time chance.... why everyone not just move out to albany instead, its gonna be the new tech capital of the world ;)
That is an extremely bad idea. It's not uncommon with junior open source programmers running of and cloning the project and giving it away for free (smoothwall for example, there are countless of other examples).
People do open source for different reason and just a minority are fanaticals but you put yourself in risk hiring people with a open source background.
shouldn't this be to http://wantads.slashdot.org?
did slashdot get hit with a stupid stick all of a sudden?
This sucks, what, you pimping to monster now? Here's a nice job, why don't you all fight over it so we can get someone who's a sucker..
Too bad that John Romero probably doesn't want to leave Texas.
What a killer game it could have been !
did they pay for this ad?
this sounds more like a want ad than 'news'.
They probably don't want replies unless you've already been through the entire product cycle on a released game. These people are after money and success, they don't care about your 3D engine on SourceForge.
Could you throw in some firearms training? [And yes, I have been to L.A!]
Ph33r m3!!!
Too bad I hate the US, game programming, id software and especially the X-box.
Otherwise very cool job.
You're not trying to pick up OSS/FS advocates for developers unless you fancy to risk getting your products a bit GPL-contaminated.
That's not the case always, but hry mate, you can't afford screwing up repeatedly, can you?
It's nto developers you're looking for here, but artists, web site designers, free-riders, Microsoft bashers and this sort of stuff...
At least American McGee is capable of developing a non-cookie cutter game like Alice.
I like the Guy.. I like Twisted.. I hate repetitive crap games.. the lack of creativity. Remember the 80's? When every game looked and felt different?
I find American McGee's games reminicent of those times. Creative. Different. Strange. *FUN*
-=-Ze End-=-
At least userfriendly.org doesn't front about it!
The only reason anyone would want to move to LA is to check out all the hot Persian girls. Other that, isn't it a barron polluted wasteland that crushes the soul and poisons the body?
Taco, /. start running calssified ads? I mean, how much are they / week, and who decides when to place them? I totally understand that this may be of some interest to some people, but it hardly meets the bar as "news." Come on, now.
Since when did
Just what were you thinking?
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wwjd? jwrtfm!
Dave's not here, man!
One way or another, ddt will see that a Linux port is produced. (Inside joke)
/. their email, why not. They are looking for employees and now you cut off their primary method to get it. Good job guys.
You could have at least put another link up for people to harass.
Jesus christ, since when does Slashdot post help wanted ads?
Is this their new advertising method, posting stories for money?
Even though he's selling out, I have to give props to Taco for having the balls to post a story about Xbox, with all of it's evil Microsoft connections. I guess taco-snotting may just be a rumor.
BTW, read my journal. If you don't like censorship, you'll like my journal.
My name is Alex. I like cats. I need a job. Here is my resume. Can I get a slashdot story?
wtf in this? Score: +2?
Why does a shooter for the X-Box need to be developed?
Is it armored, so an ordinary gun can't destroy it properly?
Old model: slashdotting websites into oblivion
New model: slashdotting inboxes into oblivion
i'm amazed that i survived - an airbag saved my life.
How many emails will he get to create a special secret level, the dark, smelly cavern of goatse.cx?
"Face it bub, I'm not interested in this, and don't know anyone who is, but it must be anyways, because, ummm, it has to do with programming and gaming {Even though there's no story in this story}. Yeah, that's the ticket."
if they use the X-Box development kit. If they were asking for help to do the first unlicensed X-Box game, now that would be a Slashdot worthy news.
Um, dude, Persia has been dead for centuries. They would now be called "Iranian".
On the other hand, it's not surprising that they prefer to call themselves Persian Girls. For similiar reasons they aren't called Iranian Rugs, either.
Yet another first person shooter. How tedious.
and so is every porn site and spammer i can sign him up to, if he wants responses im sure we can fill his inbox for him, thanks for the mailto link, the spamcrawlers will enjoy it
the poor guy is gonna get spammed into hell ! ..
so whats the point ?
he's never gonna see YOUR resume
he'll end up deleting 1000's of emails
just to be able to cope
If junior open source programmers can "run out and clone the project", then obviously "the project" can't be very big or complicated. If it weren't the "junior open source programmers" that clone it, it would be a competitor, or some other open source project. Perhaps the business management of the project should take then hint and look for a more profitable project.
just a minority are fanaticals but you put yourself in risk hiring people with a open source background.
Yes, you do put yourself at risk: at risk that if you persist in doing something stupid, your programmers are going to run out on you. I'd consider that a benefit. But to each their own.
(smoothwall for example, there are countless of other examples).
Was there actually a company stupid enough trying to make a business out of that?
"...you should email Dave."
Poor Dave.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
No seriously, this story is off topic. Slashdot, don't waste our time with want adds for developing a game that will run on a game console sold by the possible anti-christ.
a turd person shooter. /. staff.
You know, like shooting Taco and other
Before getting too excited, check out their website - they are looking for development teams, not individuals. Sending in just your CV probably isn't going to get you very far!
However, there is actually in interesting story here - the whole idea of there being a third party connecting the money (publishers) with the developers, but controlling the design and management on the project seems to be quite different to how things currently work in the games industry.
I walked in on my Dad to see his hairy leg squatting over my baby sister. I could see his large balls rubbing against her chin as he
turned to look at me.
"Hey Bud," he said as I stood there - staring and speechless - unable to ignore such a lewd and disgusting sight. Unable to comprehend this new level of perversion. This new level of depravity.
"Hey kid, you're just in time." He said. "Get your little ass over here." I dropped my book sack on the floor. I was cautious at first. My dad could be real unpredictable and I'd learned early on to be weary of him. But when I looked down between his hairy legs to see his hard cock sticking straight up as it always did against the thin trail of hair on his stomach, a steady stream of precum running down the shaft, I knew he wasn't looking to fight - but to fuck.
I curled my lip up at the sight of him. He smelled. He always did. In 1977 he worked in the mines and at that time there was a lot of work to do. Every day after work he'd come home covered in that thin misty soot from head to toe.
"What are you sneering at ya little fucker?" he asked and reached up to grab my 10 year old cock through my pants. I bucked my hips forward and
grunted. "You're little cock is already hard so don't go giving me shit about what I'm doing."
Of course - I knew better than that.
"I've been waiting all day for you to get your little ass home so I could try this. I've been hornier than a mother fucker all day. It took everything I had not to go and shove my cock up your little sister's cunt. I waited because I knew you'd like this."
My dad continued pressing my on my cockhead with his long fingers and I continued moaning and pushing my hips toward him. We'd been having sex
since I could remember and he probably started me at the same time he did my sister - as a baby, but we never talked about that. In fact, I
was the one he caught licking out my baby sister one day after he came home early from work and the rest is, as they say, history.
"Like what?" I asked him reaching down to unbutton my pants.
"Like watching me take a dump on your baby sister's face." He replied and grinned.
"What?" I said meekly not believing what he was saying now. There seemed to be no end to my dad's depravity.
"I said, I'm gonna take a shit right in your kid sister's face and your gonna help me," he said and grinned. It was an evil grin, twisted and
perverse in it's own way. "Now get your face down between my legs. I want you to get a close up of this shit."
I did as he said moving back behind him, already smelling the funkiness of his dirty ass crack. I could see the hairs were all plastered and
wet with his ass sweat.
"Smell good?" he asked me and chuckled. "You ain't seen nothin yet." He said and then moved his ass closer to my baby sisters face. She just
laid there, her blue eyes staring up at his hairy ass hanging over her without a clue of what it really was.
Suddenly the silence of the room was broken by a loud wet fart. I could see my dad's asshole open up as the nasty gas filled the air around my
baby sisters face. The wind of it blew her thin hair as she wrinkled her nose and then turned her face. My dad grunted again as another fart
blew out of his hairy hole. He moaned then getting off on how perverse this was and then having and audience to watch it all.
"How'd you like that one?" he asked me turning his head, his eyes intense and strong.
"That was nasty dad," I replied, yet still harder than ever.
"Oh yeah, " he said still squatting over my baby sisters little body.
"Well take a look at this!"
Suddenly a thick brown log of shit started to push out of his hole. I could see the muscles in his legs strain and the veins in his neck pop
out as he pushed. I could hear him grunt as the log pushed out of his smelly butt. It was thick and hard at the end and smelled worse than
anything I could imagine.
"How's that look champ?" he asked me without turning around.
"I just grunted and said nothing." It looked like a brown snake pushing it's way out of his ass.
Suddenly it broke off and fell right on my sister's face.
"Aahhhhhhhhh," he moaned and let out a loud wet fart right in her face.
Bit's of shit fell in her open mouth. I could see her eagerly pushing the shit out of her mouth with her little tongue. She had an utter look of disgust at the anal assault from her own father.
"What's she doing now?" my Dad asked me as if I were his commentator and this were nothing more than one of my school projects.
"She's got shit all over her face and in her mouth. She's trying to get it out with her tongue."
"FUCKIN A!" my dad said reaching back with his large hands to pull his ass cheeks even farther apart. Suddenly another large log began to ease
it's way out of his ass.
"Mmmmmmmm," he moaned as it broke off and fell on my sisters neck and chest. It was followed by another loud nasty fart as bits of wet shit exploded from his filthy anal cavity.
"Ahhhhhhh FUCK! This is hot," I heard my Dad say. Suddenly I looked even closer to see a thin runny string of shit and ass juice drip from his asshole directly into my little sisters mouth. She smacked it unknowingly and then closed her eyes and turned her head in disgust.
"Goddamn..." I whispered watching this incredibly disgusting show while eagerly jacking my 10 year old cock. Seeing that was almost enough to make me cum.
Suddenly my dad turned to look at me. He smiled. The combination of him looking at his smelling shitty asshole and his smiling face was
uncanny and it was also driving me crazy.
"Well Bud, I think I'm pretty much done here. Nothing much left in the old pooper. I was still stopped over watching him squatting over my
baby sister's face like she was some type of human football ready for him to punt. That's when he lowered his ass and began rubbing his
asscrack all over my little sisters face.
"AAAAHHHH FUCK DAD!" I said feeling like I was going to cum any second.
"That's so fucking nasty!" and indeed it was. My little sister's face was covered with my Dad's shit and he was in fact getting more shit in
his ass crack by doing that than if he hadn't. At one point I wondered if she could still breathe.
"Fuck it feels good too kid. Rubbing my dirty shit covered ass all over your little sister's face and mouth."
I couldn't see my Dad's hands, but I could tell he was jacking his cock. I wondered if he too was ready to cum.
My Dad then moved away from my baby sister to look at his work.
"Goddamn." He said staring down at her with his intense blue eyes. Her entire body was wet and messy and brown but remarkably, she wasn't even
crying.
I could see my Dad's cock dripping precum. "Fuck this is nasty," he said reaching back toward his ass with his hand and wiping it across his shitty hole. He brought it back, his fingers caked with shit. He sniffed it a bit and then turned his head.
"Fucking stale beer," he said and then ran his fingers across my little sister's mouth. He suddenly inserted them and slowly began sliding his thick shit covered fingers in and out of her little baby mouth. I knelt there jacking my little 5 inch cock obscenely. This was so fucking hot.
Then to my surprise my little sister began sucking on my Dad's shitty fingers! They went in brown and came out white.
"Fuckin little bitch likes it!" my Dad hollered and grinned. "She's a natural little shit eater."
Then I watched him take his long middle finger, smear it in his shit and then slowly stick it up my little sister's cunt. I watched in amazement
as he fingered her hairless bald cunny.
"Fuck Dad," I said still jacking my cock.
"Pretty hot, huh boy," my Dad asked and grinned up at me. Aren't you
glad I waited for you."
I just nodded yeah as he continued finger fucking this 10 month old
baby. He then reached up with his shitty fist and began jacking his
hard adult cock. The sight of him kneeling there, his shit covered cock
dripping cum while fingering my little sister was too much and I started
cumming.
"AAHHHHHHHHH FUCK!!!!!" I yelled, "I'M CUMMMMIINNNNGGGGGG!!!" I shot
several feet into the air. Cum shot out all over my shit covered baby
sister's face and even landed on my Dad's arms and leg.
"Fuck son," my Dad said, "I told you to warm me before you shoot off
like that."
I just shrugged still coming down from my high.
My dad eagerly eyed my cock as he reached between his legs and grabbed
his cock. "Fuck this feels good," he said as he began jacking off with
his shit. I watched his thick white cock turn a slimy brown and
listened to the squishy slick sounds of his jacking off.
"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" this feels good kid," he said. Suddenly my Dad
stood up - his cock jutting straight out from in between his hairy legs.
His cock curved hard to the right and the head was lemon shaped. A
string of shitty precum fell from the tip. I reached down and wiped it
off for him.
"Fuck kid!" he said and jerked his hips forward as I suddenly wrapped my
hand around the shitty head, "Grab your sister and follow me."
I picked up Katie and followed my Dad into the back of the house. A
brown shit stain smeared his asscrack and ran down between his legs.
Once in the bathroom he sat down on the commode.
Put your sister down, he said. I obeyed putting the little shit baby in
the sink.
I looked at my Dad who just grinned, spread his legs and pointed to his
cock. "Suck it," he said, his voice seemed to echo in the small room.
"No way!" I said repulsed. "That's disgusting." Suddenly, quick as a
flash my Dad grabbed my arm and pulled me down on the floor twisting it
back in the process.
"Do it or I'll break your fucking arm off!!!!" he hollered.
"AHHHHHHhh, ALRIGHT!" I screamed already smelling his funky asscrack and
shit covered cock.
I leaned forward.
"Just hold your nose," my Dad said spreading his hairy legs some more.
I bent down and ran my tongue across my Dad's cock head. Precum and
shit smeared my tongue and I tried to spit it out into the bowl below
him. My dad then slapped me hard in the side of the head. "You swallow
that shit!" he said meanly.
I began to cry. "Now get down there and suck my fuckin cock!"
I moved in again closing my eyes as I opened my mouth wide and swallowed
his hard cock.
"AAAHHH Fuck Yeah," my Dad moaned, bucking his hips forward as I blew
him.
"That's it ya little dick sucking faggot. Ya fucking shit licker. Suck
my fuckin cock. Suck on that hard Dad cock."
I gagged as he pushed my head down on his thick dick. Suddenly I began
to vomit and could feel it in my stomach.
"Uuuuugghhh, agggghhhhh," I choked as the thick stuff erupted from my
gut. I backed up as vomit flew from my open mouth all over my Dad's
cock and balls and legs.
"You filthy little faggot!" my Dad screamed. I expected him to hit me
again, but was surprised to see him reach down and slowly jack his cock
with it.
He just grinned again and grabbed his slimy shit and vomit covered cock
by the base and waved it at me like a weird treat. "You did it - now
you eat it." He said.
I leaned forward and again began sucking his hard cock into my mouth,
vomit and all.
After a few minutes my Dad was grunting like crazy.
"That's enough," he said pushing me away. "Get your little sister out
of the sink."
I stood up, my hard little cock sticking out between my legs. My Dad
quickly reached out and grabbed it, pulling on it with his large shit
covered hand.
"UUUgh," I moaned as he jerked my cock. "That feels good Dad."
When he stopped, I went over to the sink. My baby sister looked up at
me through a dark brown mask. It was already turning hard and drying on
her face.
I handed her to my Dad who in once quick plunge shoved her down on his
hard 7 inch cock.
My little sister let out a yell that almost split my eardrums.
"AAHHHHHHHH FUCCCKKKKKK YEAH!" my Dad screamed bouncing her up and down
on his cock. Suddenly there was blood and it was coming from my sister.
It began leaking from around his cock shaft and running down my Dad's
hairy balls and into the toilet below.
All the while she was still screaming and crying and I had in the
meantime began jacking off again.
"OOOHHHH GOD YEAH!!! My dad moaned through clenched teeth. "FUCKIN THAT
LITTLE BLOODY ASS BABY CUNT. SHOVE MY HARD FUCKING COCK UP THAT BABY
PUSSY. GONNA FUCK THE GUTS OUT OF IT. FUCK IT TILL IT BLEEDS. GONNA
BLOW A FUCKING HOLE IN THAT TIGHT LITTLE CUNT."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK!" he screamed one more time and
brutally slammed my baby sister all the way down on his hard cock, the
cords of his neck straining like they were gonna burst.
His legs suddenly kicked straight out as he came, blood shit and cum
erupting everywhere.
"I'M CUUUUUUMMMING!" I screamed as I began shooting as well, blowing my
load all over my Dad and little sister. Some hitting my Dad in the face
as well. He came too in a total explosion of hot fucking blood and cum
mixed with shit. Incest cum.
Suddenly everything came to a stop. I looked down at my Dad. My baby
sister impaled on his fat cock. The water in the bowl below a bright
red.
"Oh fuck," I said as he pulled her off his cock with a sick 'plop'
sound. As he did, runny shit that was red and yellow and white spilled
out of her cunt onto his deflating cock and balls. My Dad simply
dropped her on the floor. She wasn't moaning, wasn't crying, wasn't
doing 'anything'.
My dad just sneered at my horror like he always did.
He nodded and then spread his legs and pointed with his thick finger to
the bloody glob between his legs.
"Lick me clean," he said and smiled.
I just shook my head with disbelief when he grabbed my hair and pushed
my face down between his legs. My mouth opening on his cock and
instinctively pushing out my tongue and wrapping it around his thick
blood coated mushroom head.
"Mmmmmm," that's it kid, "Clean that dirty fucker off. Suck off all
that blood and cum and shit. Make sure you get it nice and clean. Yeah
boy, that's it. Taste your sister's bloody guts on that cock??? You
like that don't you boy?"
By that time I just looked up at him, lost in a daze, my face covered in
a mask of blood.
"Yeah, do it good for Daddy. Get me real clean , ya hear? And maybe I
won't do the same to you."
I did as he said and even pushed his legs apart further and ran my
tongue all over his big hairy balls and then down along his nasty ass
crack.
"OOOOHHHH Fuck YEAH!" my Dad said getting hard again. "Clean out that
fuckin ass. Get all up in there kid."
"That a boy. That feels so fuckin good son."
After I was done cleaning off my Dad to his satisfaction, he simply got
up and left the room. I then turned to look at my baby sister and
suddenly wondered if she was dead. I wondered if my Dad had fucked her
to death. Blood was still running from her pussy that was now a funny
shade of red. I filled the tub with water, bathed her swollen little
pussy, and wondered what my Dad would think of next.
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XBox is proprietary and owned by our eternal foe Microsoft. Therefore this is helping our ruin. Now, if the company would use profits from XBox sales to subsidize a copylefted, up-to-date port for GNU systems, I'd be all for it.
At lease id has always created cross-platform code, and even donated some of it, even if belatedly.
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News and press releases
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job openings posted
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If you are part of either an established game development team or a new team with outstanding talent, and you are looking for funding and intersted in...
Not very current and I hope you've got a fair bit of experience in the video games industry before you send off a CV - the programming and artist positions they have open each demand at least 5 years.
I guess the angle is that Dave Taylor used to work for id and has been a Linux advocate? Does that make him a great person to work for? There are hundreds of other game companies always hiring. And of course it would make sense in this case to hire someone with:
1. Game development experience.
2. Console programming experience.
And this surely isn't the right place to troll for those.
No *way* am I working for a nigger
...and you're asking this on slashdot? haha good one :))
[YES I'm ironic, don't bother mod me down if you didn't get it]
-- There are two kind of sysadmins: Paranoids and Losers. (adapted from D. Bach)
I need a job. I can code. I can cook coffee.
yes, I'm the perfect junior 3d programmer! Unfortunately I do not get the job before I programmed an awesome 3d shooter demo at home and spend 2y in coding without making any money. yes, I can cook coffee... do I get the job in the game industry?
[ ] yes
[ ] no
[ ] keep cookin... um coding
Why would any self-respecting geek want to write games for a proprietary Microsoft platform. For crying out loud, we need more multi-platform PC games! How about developing a highly modular Open Source game engine and then sell non-free scripting, levels, artwork, etc. (the part of game design that takes all the real time and effort) I would gladly support such an effort as compared to a game with binaries only. Then build a community around the game and encourage mods, network tournaments, etc. I guarantee you'll find a market because community is something that console systems will likely never have.
I'm starting a new station a few blocks from here and need some people to pump gas, wash windows, etc. Wanna work for me?
On the heels of the story of LWN now taking donations, it look like Slashdot has begun selling classified ads as stories on the front page!
rooooar
You definitely have the right attitude. You're hired!
Is this the first example of the Slashdot effect on an email address?
This
Dave: "I'd like to check my mail"
Slashdot: "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that"
*ducks*
It seems that the common method for creating a company in silicon valley nowadays is as follows:
-Find a futuristic or artistic/creative single noun.
-Concatenate a single digit number between 1 and 9.
And hence, we have these rediculously uncreative company names which all sounds the same.
Cloud9, rhino9, carbon6, etc.
Also applies to computer games, IE: rainbow6.
One day, company names will relate back to the products being sold.
When you actually spend time around Iranians, then you'll have a bit more credibility. Iranian, Persian, it doesn't make a bit of difference to me. Apparently you've got some hangups, though.
"relocate to LA, work with McGee, TaAylor"
Qualifications: You Must be gay.
I've heard the postings at Hotjobs can often recieve more than 1000 replies.
;)
Posting for a video game development position on slashdot? Geez... the sky is the limit.
Perhaps this is a scam for a recruitment firm to gather resumes.
Are Slashdot stories allowed to be nothing more than 3-line advertisements? If I wanted shameless plugs, I'd watch TV.
Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".
Check the Jobs link. It's not asking for teams, it's asking for specific things like "Lead Developer", "Lead Designer", etc. That's not asking for teams.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
It sounded like a toilet bowl manufacturer until I realised it's an actual human being's name...
You Merikkkans really like to push your 'patriotism' to extremes, doncha?
See subject
I like to shoot things too. I'm also good at being a YesMan, making espresso drinks, and I'm willing to compromise all morals for employment (up to and including homicide with a reduced sentence). The whole "programming, developing, directing" thing is a little weak but I'm sure my mad "killing anything that moves" skillz make up for that.
Find out about my new childrens book: SS Death Camp Criminal Batallion Go To Monte Carlo For The Massacre
Time for everyones favorite quiz show, "Who's e-mail just got slashdotted?!"
a) Bill Gates
B) The guy in this story
C) Malda
To find out the answer, wait until this gets modded down!
On to our advertisement...
ho hum..why bother..the nvidia chipset in the damn thing is gonna be outdated by the time the summer is over. Anyone seen the ATI 9700 yet ?
I fail to see the problem here - I work for Playstation, my friend's dad owns Gamecube and my little sister has GP32 hair.
Ad posted.
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In America we are imprisoned by our fear of them.
If id couldn't have the guy as an employee, is he really a good guy to work for?
New gaming company American McGee was found dead on Sunday. Police say it looks like a slashdot by email killing. They looking for a suspect named "Takko" who is presumed to be of japanese origin.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Too bad that John Romero probably doesn't want to leave Texas.
Yah, when I lived there, I said that about a certain State Governor. See what happened? =)
Get off my launchpad!
I would suggest someone give Rasterman resume to Dave since he has not done anything lately
"What for?"
"Standard credit check. Need to find out whether you're an intelligent, helpful, informative individual or... well, this also helps us weed out the trolls."
"Actually, I just got an offer from another company I couldn't turn down. Sorry."
I was fortunate enough to have a chat with Dave at GDC 2001 and he seemed to not like first person shooters at all. I wonder what changed his mind. =)
Tom the Sigless
I'll second what the AC said, and as a special one-time offer you get a free link to it. LyX is truly the best word processor I've come across.
You completed 115 credits and didn't get the degree? You had to be fairly close, no? A lot of employers would look at that and think you were a flake, I know I would. I think you have to spin that somehow or give it some context.
These teaser images look pretty interesting.
PCXL was more than just the best gaming mag EVAR, It was also a better prognosticator than Nostradamus. Case in point: It was a recurring joke that PCXL would shut down before Daikatana was released. This came true, as the final issue of PCXL was published in April 2000, while Daikatana was released on May 23, 2000, just a month later. Coincidence? Maybe, but wait until I provide the rest of my evidence of PCXL's psychic abilities...
g
;-)
In the April 1999 issue of PCXL, they had a large April Fools section in which there was a story about John Romero (PCXL's favorite punching bag) leaving Ion Storm, cutting his hair short, and focusing on old school games. Well guess what, that is exactly what happened!
www.johnromero.com/images/News/Haircut-After.jp
He quit Ion Storm, cut his hair and started MonkeyStone Games, which makes simple games for PDA's and the like.
And there exists other, more circumstantial evidence regarding PCXL's talent for divination. In an editorial in the December 1999 issue of PCXL (shipped early November), editor Mike Morrisey states that he's sick of buying a new video card every six months, and that he's skipping the current generation (voodoo3/TNT2) because he's sure the Voodoo 6000 will be released in a few months. Lo andd behold, on November 16, 1999 the VSA-100 chip and the Voodoo5 6000 are revealed by 3dfx!
I'm sure by now your jaws have dropped, as you have probably come to the same conclusion as I: namely, that PCXL was the best, most hardcore gaming rag ever, and that its existence was a threat to crappy game publishers and developers everywhere *cough* Eidos, Ion Storm *cough*. It had to be destroyed so that the game oligopoly could continue to pump out crappy games with short development cycles in order to maximize profits without the public being aware of their evil machinations. PCXL was the bastion of truth in the gaming world, and with it gone gamers would again buy crappy games which consistently scored high in the cookie cutter mags. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!
When you actually spend time around Iranians, then you'll have a bit more credibility. Iranian, Persian, it doesn't make a bit of difference to me.
Except for that whole muslim fundamentalism thing, and the terrorism, and ...
And by the way, I dated a "Persian" girl.
We need programmers and artists too, where's the form to fill in my classified ad for /. ???
I had sex with a persian cat once, and it didn't like it one bit I don't think. Thankfully it was declawed. Anyway, it was awful funny watching it try to rub all that jizz out of its fur for the next few days. Stupid cat...
I know Slashdot didn't just post someone's email address on the home page ...
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
I'm not a game programmer and I don't live in LA, but can I just like, hang out with you guys? :)
SL33ZE - Artificial Intelligence is No Match For Natural Stupidity -
yeah, it may be for the M$ X-box, but half of you would probably sell your soul in order to be a 'game designer'.
Uhhh... Uhhh... Uhhh... I can do their webpage!
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
SO FUCKING BAD!!!
...living proof that you need little more than a "weird" or "interesting" name to suddenly become very famous in this country (particularly among nerds....American McGee, Jello Biafra, etc...)
I'm sorry, but could someone give me an idea of what this guy has _actually_ done to deserve such fame? I hope 'Alice' isn't your answer...I saw him talk at GDC '01 this past March, and my impression was that he wasn't even a part of the development team -- he wasn't even on-site...he'd ship off his "artistic visions" to the on-site team who actually designed/coded/drew the game, he got all the credit, and the press loves him why? Because he's got a cool name.
Seriously...I'm happy to give him credit where credit is due...if the guy's a brilliant game designer, a top-notch dealmaker, a great programmer, or a lead artist, fine -- I'd love to know about it, but come ON...enough with the sensationalism.
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Hell no. But I see that YOU work for the Unreal boys. How's that whole "UT2k3" deal going? Any inside info or easter eggs you wanna divulge?
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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
I'm a computer geek from Melbourne Australia currently spending some time interstate in Sydney in a vacation. Meeting up with a fellow freelance journalist and on our way to a club, our taxi passed a museum advertising its upcoming exhibit, Chinese Dinosaurs.
"Chinese Dinosaurs?"
"Chinese Dinosaur Ninjas"
"Undead Chinese Dinosaur Ninjas"
"John Romero's Undead Chinese Dinosaur Ninjas"
(we both burst out laughing)
Sorry, us peons aren't allowed to talk about it. Zug Zug :)
--was a Pac-Man rip off. Nostalgia clouds your vision and is for old people. Halo, Panzer Dragoon,, Super Mario Sunshine,, X-Box, GameCube, PS2, and yes even the venerable Dreamcast. . .to hell with the past, I'd much rather have today's gameing world any day of the week!
How about a little AC action on the sly?
I'm wondering if I'm the only one enjoying the irony of a CmdrTaco posting a story looking for X-Box developers.
Sure, I'll apply for lead programmer. Now all I need is a million years experience as a developer, knowledge of all possible API's out there, a PhD in maths, chemistry, graphical design and one in psychology, 25 years experience in the gaming industry, a neat house and a great car. Just hope a girlfriend isn't required.
That's what should be done to prevent the evil /. subscription plan. A classified ad section should be created. People can pay to put up classified ads for other slashdotters to respond to. That should bring in enough money so that a subscription plan won't be needed.
Technoli
And by the way, I dated a "Persian" girl.
Uh huh
DO YOU HAVE AN INSIDE MAN?!
I think I blew this case wide open! And I'm talking all the wayIt's cuz I have SuperKarma(tm).
I guess once you have really high karma it just mods you up auomatically. Even if it's just chit chat.