The Game Industry - The Game
You know, it hasn't hit me until a few minutes ago.
I got an envelope at my desk. I opened it up and there's the card. I'm now a card-carrying member of the IGDA. While that isn't all that big a deal in itself, it kind of made me smile to myself and think that I really did achieve my goal of working in the video game industry. Almost by accident. The sheer amount of choices I had to make (including those I made without realizing), and the highly improbable nature of... well... almost everything in my life... it's all... sort of surprising to me.
I'm almost certain there are an infinite amount of pissed off Jay's out there in parallel universes working at some fast food restaurant in Montreal, completely fucking miserable and somehow this particular Jay lucked out.
It just took this card for me to realize it.
- Achievements -
[x] Become a tester - 10 points
[x] Promotion out of testing - 15 points
[ ] Release a console game - 15 points
[x] Release a mobile game - 15 points
[x] Release 5 games total - 20 points
[ ] Release 10 games total - 30 points
[ ] Release 20 games total - 40 points
[x] Fix 10 bugs - 10 points
[x] Fix 30 bugs - 15 points
[x] Fix 100 bugs - 20 points
[ ] Fix 500 bugs - 40 points
[x] Release a game with an average review score of 8.0 and above - 50 points
[x] Release 5 games with an average review score of 8.0 and above - 100 points
[x] Release a game with an average review score of 9.0 and above - 100 points
[ ] Release a game with an average review score of 9.5 and above - 200 points
[ ] Release a game that wins a game of the year award - 400 points
[ ] Become a game producer - 75 points
[ ] Be mentioned on Kotaku dismissively - 10 points
[ ] Be called an asshole on Kotaku - 20 points
[ ] Be called an asshole and gaming savior on Kotaku in the same sentence - 100 points
[x] Party past midnight and meet your deadlines the day after - 50 points
---
As you can see, I still have a lot more to do.
I got an envelope at my desk. I opened it up and there's the card. I'm now a card-carrying member of the IGDA. While that isn't all that big a deal in itself, it kind of made me smile to myself and think that I really did achieve my goal of working in the video game industry. Almost by accident. The sheer amount of choices I had to make (including those I made without realizing), and the highly improbable nature of... well... almost everything in my life... it's all... sort of surprising to me.
I'm almost certain there are an infinite amount of pissed off Jay's out there in parallel universes working at some fast food restaurant in Montreal, completely fucking miserable and somehow this particular Jay lucked out.
It just took this card for me to realize it.
- Achievements -
[x] Become a tester - 10 points
[x] Promotion out of testing - 15 points
[ ] Release a console game - 15 points
[x] Release a mobile game - 15 points
[x] Release 5 games total - 20 points
[ ] Release 10 games total - 30 points
[ ] Release 20 games total - 40 points
[x] Fix 10 bugs - 10 points
[x] Fix 30 bugs - 15 points
[x] Fix 100 bugs - 20 points
[ ] Fix 500 bugs - 40 points
[x] Release a game with an average review score of 8.0 and above - 50 points
[x] Release 5 games with an average review score of 8.0 and above - 100 points
[x] Release a game with an average review score of 9.0 and above - 100 points
[ ] Release a game with an average review score of 9.5 and above - 200 points
[ ] Release a game that wins a game of the year award - 400 points
[ ] Become a game producer - 75 points
[ ] Be mentioned on Kotaku dismissively - 10 points
[ ] Be called an asshole on Kotaku - 20 points
[ ] Be called an asshole and gaming savior on Kotaku in the same sentence - 100 points
[x] Party past midnight and meet your deadlines the day after - 50 points
---
As you can see, I still have a lot more to do.