The Beginning of the End of My Game Design Career
This news post today regarding BioWare and LucasArts made me recall a phone conversation I had on the lawn outside AltaVista back in 2001. A producer from BioWare called me and said they were using a set of textures I’d made to prototype KOTOR. They wanted to know if I was interested in moving to Canada.
It was then that I realized that the game industry, as attractive and fun as it could be, was not going to, well, pay well enough to have the life I wanted to have. Especially in 2001. In Canada.
I ended up taking a 50% pay cut to go work on a PS2 game in Seattle later that year. Silly me, not learning.
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I need to hear more stories as I'm starting to pick up job offers (or rather, more like people poking me with sticks - sharp ones) and I'm now seriously contemplating taking up an offer. But I realize that the life of the video game developer is ironically not all fun and games.
BTW, what's wrong with Canada? :(