demoscene going commercial?
category: general [glöplog]
Actually I dont mind people going commercial WITH demos... I'd rather have a group making a demo (which they enjoy and are good at) and then using the funds to, say, organize a demoparty, than slaving at some crappy job to sweat together the funds for the very same.
If you don't like it, you're acting like "buying a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard" (c) Elvis Costello.
If you don't like it, you're acting like "buying a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard" (c) Elvis Costello.
another section of spaceballs went commercial several years ago: www.spaceballs.com
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BTW: Jamba is recruiting scene musicians as well. I know at least one working for them, two who didn't want to work for them and one Okkie who wasn't good enough for fucking Jamba. Congratulations. :)
Hold up there laddy, I was doing fine with Jamba until they started nagging me to change stuff more and more detailed still without paying for it, I told them to fuck off, i'm doing a bit of work for free, but you will pay if you want details. So I kept my tune and we used it wisely.
rainmaker, me and dixan are not in mfx anymore or we've been recruited by mr. goodliving without noticing it? :)
Oh, sorry Maddy, I see now that a certain korean guy was wrong.
regarding my profession... i'm your momma, i'm your daddy, i'm that nigga in the alley. i'm your doctor, when in need, want some coke? have some weed. you know me, i'm your friend, your main boy, thick and thin, i'm your pusherman.
Uh, what happend to Moppi? They do commercial stuff? In which ways?
anyway moredhel you are so stupid, you won't be recruited by anyone, EVER!
nosfe, actually ... we are looking for new game testers. :)
freeze, memon is working for crytek - the rest of moppi are more on the new media side.
regarding the original subject. lot of sceners work in game companies. lot of sceners don't. most work somewhere anyways, and i think it's natural people like rather to do something they enjoy working with. games aren't actually that far from demos, add interactivity and there you go. :)
...goes back playing darwinia.
freeze, memon is working for crytek - the rest of moppi are more on the new media side.
regarding the original subject. lot of sceners work in game companies. lot of sceners don't. most work somewhere anyways, and i think it's natural people like rather to do something they enjoy working with. games aren't actually that far from demos, add interactivity and there you go. :)
...goes back playing darwinia.
Memon is in Germany working for Cryotech (the Far Cry-one anyway) I think... At least at FMX last year, a certain Cryotech guy got repeatedly pestered by the sceners present for "not letting Memon go to Breakpoint" - not that he was responsible for anything, but he was at hand :)
Crytek, then. (I'm not too familiar with Far Cry :)
Two possibilities when you're not student anymore :
- you get a boring employee job, so you manage to find enough free time to do demos, that is quite refreshing for the mind
- you get a terrific creative job (doing what you did in demoscene but paid), in this case you'll hardly find free time to do anything else in this same domain, for finally having to face the same STUPID and IDIOT whiners on pouet =D
- you get a boring employee job, so you manage to find enough free time to do demos, that is quite refreshing for the mind
- you get a terrific creative job (doing what you did in demoscene but paid), in this case you'll hardly find free time to do anything else in this same domain, for finally having to face the same STUPID and IDIOT whiners on pouet =D
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rainmaker, me and dixan are not in mfx anymore or we've been recruited by mr. goodliving without noticing it? :)
Ok ok so not everyone but still more than 75% :)
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nosfe, actually ... we are looking for new game testers. :)
Nosfe, the mother of all anarchists, working? :)
and KEWLERS IS STILL DEAD KTHXBYE! (what, nobody's crying or committing suicides or anything?)
willbe: do note though that a "terrific creative job" usually pays better :)
gargaj: for this kind of job you have to be terrific as well =)
rainmaker, well... Kewlers still suck ;)
Me and Shadez (+ maybe some other sceners) are working at Sumea (now acquired by Digital Chocolate), a mobile games company founded by couple of Virtual Dreams guys.
but, where do i get a non-bullshit job that pays well?
absolutely commercial when it comes to wild demos
commercial companies with their powerful structures winning to sceners who obviously dont have that many computers to render stuff nor ultra-expensive software
imho they shouldn't be allowed to enter compos at demoparties
commercial companies with their powerful structures winning to sceners who obviously dont have that many computers to render stuff nor ultra-expensive software
imho they shouldn't be allowed to enter compos at demoparties
why, did such things happen? never heard.
bugbear has atleast: abyss, kanttu and sivu
Remedy and Housemarque have lot of scene dudes also.
I'm also working on game project.
Remedy and Housemarque have lot of scene dudes also.
I'm also working on game project.
I take it Rofly is a prime example. (Which for whatever reason is not to be found here or at scene.org apparently)
Demoscene going commercial? Why is that?
People just try to get jobs in their fields of interest (cg, music, code, design). That's not specific to demoscene whatsoever and that's not new either: there have been Thalion software in 1988, DICE in 1992, etc.
Yes, sceners aren't students till their 80's, they eventually have to get a job, someday. Scary revelation it seems...
People just try to get jobs in their fields of interest (cg, music, code, design). That's not specific to demoscene whatsoever and that's not new either: there have been Thalion software in 1988, DICE in 1992, etc.
Yes, sceners aren't students till their 80's, they eventually have to get a job, someday. Scary revelation it seems...
I deeply agree with you Keops
if I got your message you say people involved into demoscene gets a related job which is well imho great
problem is "au contraire" non-sceners or even companies entering compos* and of course winning them
it is _not_ fair
* (I'm talking only about wild demos)
if I got your message you say people involved into demoscene gets a related job which is well imho great
problem is "au contraire" non-sceners or even companies entering compos* and of course winning them
it is _not_ fair
* (I'm talking only about wild demos)