General Discussion 5

Leo · May 31, 2011 9:45 PM

Sucks alot more for me. But at least I have foodstamps.

Swaffy · May 31, 2011 9:49 PM

I know how you feel, Stormy. I've been trying to get a job for a whole year now.
No emphasis added, either.

RedDragonX · Jun 01, 2011 12:08 AM

Stormy wrote:

Yeah, I just finished my second year of college. Now I'm back at my parents' house for three months with nothing to do but send out more applications until someone calls me. Kind of sucks.

You are outside of the Coca-Cola influence ring I'm afraid sad

Neotyguy40 · Jun 01, 2011 12:25 AM

I got extremely lucky. I have a paid internship at the company my father works at.

I get to work full time as a programmer at $10 an hour.

Swaffy · Jun 01, 2011 5:16 AM

I'd like to do some kind of programming. Sure, it'll take some extra learning
and practice, but I think it'd be a well-paying job. I don't know if I already
stated this before, but I dream of working for DICE over in Sweden. But that
would be programming more for video games instead of normal programs.

What kind of programming do you do, Ty?

Neotyguy40 · Jun 01, 2011 8:00 PM

Swaffy wrote:

I'd like to do some kind of programming. Sure, it'll take some extra learning
and practice, but I think it'd be a well-paying job. I don't know if I already
stated this before, but I dream of working for DICE over in Sweden. But that
would be programming more for video games instead of normal programs.
What kind of programming do you do, Ty?

I work at a chemical store company. We have machines that store and manipulate chemicals and test tubes for pharmacies and biological things.

I work on two kinds:

1. Programming a robotic arm in a machine that can move and manipulate tubes and racks of chemicals.
2. Testing programs to monitor parts of the machine. For example, I made a program that measures the temperature of a freezer (at around -80°C) and also monitors how long the freezer is on compared to it being off.

A Guy · Jun 01, 2011 10:24 PM

Meh, I'm more a fan of making video games and whatnot, something that's actually fun.

JazzJackrabbit · Jun 01, 2011 10:28 PM

Programming games is more fun, but programming monitoring equipment is quicker and easier.

Neotyguy40 · Jun 02, 2011 12:31 AM

A Guy wrote:

Meh, I'm more a fan of making video games and whatnot, something that's actually fun.

I can't make a wage off of building a game at this point. That's what I'm going to be doing at college in a few weeks. And besides, I take joy in the actual programming, not the target result.

JazzJackrabbit wrote:

Programming games is more fun, but programming monitoring equipment is quicker and easier.

Not necessarily. I found it takes a lot more time debugging for testing actual hardware and equipment programs than for software. And programming the robotic arm is very repetitive and difficult.

JazzJackrabbit · Jun 02, 2011 2:08 AM

I guess if you can't manually move the equipment and program it to repeat that movement, it would get annoying. Maybe it's because I use Arduino that it seems easy. Programming a modern game from scratch still seems to be pretty dang difficult and time consuming.

Dark Fury Dragon · Jun 02, 2011 2:15 AM

I wanna be an artist for games, such as making concept art, designing characters, etc. It seems like a lot of fun!

Neotyguy40 · Jun 02, 2011 2:24 AM

JazzJackrabbit wrote:

I guess if you can't manually move the equipment and program it to repeat that movement, it would get annoying. Maybe it's because I use Arduino that it seems easy. Programming a modern game from scratch still seems to be pretty dang difficult and time consuming.

We can't manually move it because...

Well, let's just say -80°C is a bit too chilly for someone to manually move it.

The problem arises because wiring and electrical components can't go in the freezer. We rely on magnets powered by external motors to move bearings on the inside, which, in turn allows an arm to move. The amount of moving parts inside each freezer is high enough to create an error of a few millimeters for each freezer.

Dark Fury Dragon wrote:

I wanna be an artist for games, such as making concept art, designing characters, etc. It seems like a lot of fun!

Look at the ID Tech Camps.

I took the Maya Modeling 1 week course, and I was able to create an entire city that looked like it was made by a AAA studio. It is really intense (6 AM in the morning to 9 PM at night). I got more hours in that then the average person gets in a 3d modeling course in college.

JazzJackrabbit · Jun 02, 2011 2:39 AM

I want to be a writer of a game. I actually have an awesome idea for a platformer/shooter/action-adventure/MMO with a bunch of characters few would expect or remember. If my idea is ever made, you might see Rainbow Dash fight Bucky O'Hare, and Spike battle with Sparkster.

Stormy · Jun 02, 2011 4:00 AM

Me and a few friends spent a lot of last semester thinking of game ideas.

We would be the most awesome game company of five people ever if we actually started working on something.

RedDragonX · Jun 02, 2011 6:28 AM

I can provide free soda to your cause?

ontels · Jun 02, 2011 8:35 AM

Seems like evreone here wants to work on games, I wonder how many of you will make the cut?

Aceedwin · Jun 02, 2011 10:09 AM

Not many, I imagine. It's a ridiculously competitive job market, and it's only getting worse, as the gamer demographic swells. On the plus side, that means only the best applicants get a chance to go near the games, which will improve the quality, presumably.

Before you ask, I'm aiming to be a writer.

Clock-la · Jun 02, 2011 12:25 PM

Im going to be a...designer of some degree

ontels · Jun 02, 2011 4:43 PM

It seems like every game developer has job openings though, I would have thought that they would be taken in an instant.

JazzJackrabbit · Jun 02, 2011 5:02 PM

Competition is what makes business better. If Microsoft was the only computer company, there would be no motivation to make better software, and the prices would be incredibly high. Because Apple exists there is motivation to be better. The two companies are rivals, but they are unknowingly working together to improve computer technology.

Stormy · Jun 02, 2011 5:46 PM

RedDragonX wrote:

I can provide free soda to your cause?

Of course. XD Although I don't like soda, I'm sure everyone else would appreciate it.

Yeah, I hear jobs in the video game industry are really hard to come by. It would be nice, but I'm not hopeful that it will happen. My major is computer science, so I'm going to be doing some kind of programming, though. I'd kinda like to do something with internet security if only because I freaking hate viruses and the idiots who write them. Other than that... I've got nothing. What'll probably end up happening is I'll have really limited options when I graduate and I'll just have take whatever is available.

Neotyguy40 · Jun 02, 2011 7:49 PM

Stormy wrote:

RedDragonX wrote:
I can provide free soda to your cause?
Of course. XD Although I don't like soda, I'm sure everyone else would appreciate it.
Yeah, I hear jobs in the video game industry are really hard to come by. It would be nice, but I'm not hopeful that it will happen. My major is computer science, so I'm going to be doing some kind of programming, though. I'd kinda like to do something with internet security if only because I freaking hate viruses and the idiots who write them. Other than that... I've got nothing. What'll probably end up happening is I'll have really limited options when I graduate and I'll just have take whatever is available.

Nowai! I'm going into computer science too!

I also like to make games, but I like AI development a lot funner and more practical as a job. I plan on doing that as a hobby though.

Stormy · Jun 02, 2011 8:21 PM

AI programming does sound interesting, but what practical use does it have as a career? What kind of AI are you talking about?

Swaffy · Jun 02, 2011 8:30 PM

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence]

I can only judge off of his previous posts. Ty, you're talking about the AI
aspect of robotics? I like the idea, but just don't make robots that will kill my
family and I, alright? Heheh.

Neotyguy40 · Jun 02, 2011 9:31 PM

Stormy wrote:

AI programming does sound interesting, but what practical use does it have as a career? What kind of AI are you talking about?

Practical uses? AI is a huge developing field. Look at IBM for example.

I'm mostly interested in robotic and superactive AI (AI that can process large amounts of human-inputted data such as speech).

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