Replay wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 7:15 am
Julius Seeker wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2024 7:36 pm
I actually have loads of experience and connections in the video game industry.
(Evil business mogul laughter)
Do tell.
I worked on contract with THQ (multiple games mainly pro-wrestling ), Ubisoft, Namco, and Electronic Arts - and then worked directly for Electronic Arts for nearly 10 years.
Interesting enough, I’ve worked on projects for both World Wrestling Entertainment and the company that famously sued them for Trademark infringement, the World Wildlife Fund… both of the WWFs.
I was also a pioneer in mobile development and spent a lot of time in that field, BREW, Java Micro Edition, Facebook (remember when they had games? Not mobile, but same tier), RIM, XCode (for iOS), Android, and some other products and platforms including NGage. I’ve owned (probably) over 200 mobile devices which I used for porting to the top 40 Java and top 20 BREW, and all sorts of iOS and Android devices.
I worked with A TON of licenses and writers, I even worked on licensing for the likeness and headed up the design for Elon Musk (including determining assets, mechanics, animations, writing the text, and doing up the XML script), this was before he went crazy.
I also got enough into the industry gossip to know that the father of Final Fantasy, Hironobu Sakaguchi, was in fact a massive asshole and glory hog. Also, the beloved studio head of Silicon Knights (Denis Dyack) is/was probably the most hated video game development boss in all of Canada. It makes me wonder about other people in the industry who have achieved celebrity status.