Great Advice About Resumes, Cover Letters, and Websites
Jim Rivers, the Hiring Manager for Obsidian Entertainment (KoToR 2, NWN 2, Alpha Conspiracy) gave a great talk at the Austin GDC Game Career Seminar about resumes, cover letters, and websites. It was specifically geared towards newly graduated students — some of his advice doesn’t apply to seasoned vets. I just found out that his presentation is available for download (direct link to a ZIP file containing a PPT). Here are some of the most important points of the presentation: If you lack industry experience but have worked on lots of game stuff as an intern or for sch

Notes From My Lecture at WPI
I gave a lecture yesterday at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, my alma mater. The class I spoke to was IMGD 2001, Philosophy and Ethics of Computer Games. A little bit of background on that: during my senior year in college, WPI was still putting together its undergraduate video game development major. I took on a thesis project for Prof. John Sanbonmatsu where I essentially wrote a grab-bag paper on video games and critical theory. As John educated me in critical theory, I educated John in video gam

Blogger to Wordpress Migration, With Redirects!
If you’re seeing this, I have migrated this blog both to Wordpress as a platform and to my own domain. I never really knew what to do with tinysubversions.com, and the blogspot page was always my real home on the internet. I’m happy to say that everything has moved over nicely. I might take a hit in PageRank for a little while, but the important thing is that the old permalinks work. Here, try it: http://tinysubversions.blogspot.com/2007/12/effective-networking-art-of-finding.html Ta-da! To do the migration, I ended up using:

Schools That Use My Articles?
Hey folks, I need a favor. I'm compiling a list of schools that use my articles as reference material. It's useful for me to know. For example, I might use it to reach out to schools if I'm in the area to see if they'd like me to drop by and give a talk.So if you are an educator who uses my Effective Networking in the Game Industry articles in a class, or you're a student who's been assigned them, please let me know! Commenting here is fine, and if you could tell me the school and maybe the name of the class, that would be great.

Schools That Use My Articles?
Hey folks, I need a favor. I’m compiling a list of schools that use my articles as reference material. It’s useful for me to know. For example, I might use it to reach out to schools if I’m in the area to see if they’d like me to drop by and give a talk. So if you are an educator who uses my Effective Networking in the Game Industry articles in a class, or you’re a student who’s been assigned them, please let me know! Commenting here is fine, and if you could tell me the school and maybe the name of the class, that would be grea