UK Games Industry Over the Hill?

Tinkle writes "A games industry campaign group has warned the UK is falling behind on coding skills because university courses are not up to scratch. But this article includes an interview with an industry coding veteran who believes a lack of creative home computing hardware (think: Atari ST) is more likely to be at the root of the skills shortage, and explains why Britain's games coders are getting a bit long-in-the-tooth."

Comments

Re:Money not skills the problem

[damburger]

My dads pub makes more money than the UK car industry, on account of the fact is in the black.

Nahhh..

[comm2k]

Nahhh not at all - with new talent like Majestic Studios, the UK is making a full swing attack at all the cheap-ass clones made by EA-Borg collective.

Re:UK IT bosses whinging at the lack of slave labo

[Fred_A]

I am continually spammed by UK recruiting agencies that request high qualifications and pay you 20K pounds and 50 hour week, but there is a plus to it. The uniform is provided. Phew, that's good to know. My sewing is really terrible.

At my last job I had to make my own uniform and the kids threw stones at me. It really sucked.