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Geek Culture / Game industry job for my gap year?

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Chris K
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Does anyone know if any UK game studios would give me a low pay internship for my gap year after the summer?

The only big UK companies I can think of are Lionhead, Rockstar and Eidos, but they probably wouldn't take me...

Anyway, if anyone has any good ideas as to how I should spend it, speak up!

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Raven
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Eidos is a publisher (and technically now SCi) but I think your best bet is just asking companies you can think of... preferably local, cause most internships are either low-paid or not paid at all. (it's why a number of companies do it, cheap labour heh)

I think that Codemasters does it, and you might be able to get some from a few smaller companies. Depends on your area though.


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Posted: 21st Apr 2006 21:41 Edited at: 21st Apr 2006 21:43
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Quote: "I think that Codemasters does it, and you might be able to get some from a few smaller companies. Depends on your area though."

don't bother, they don't do work placements when i phoned them last year, they will point you in the direction of blitz games (http://www.blitzgames.com/)- not associated with blitz basic afaik - might take you on, it says that they accept work placements for a min of 8 months - go to corporate at the top of the page then education on the left hand side, its based in leamington spa, which is warwickshire


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Chris K
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Cheers

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Seppuku Arts
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Ask Digital Jesters for any of their clients, they're a relatively new publishers that are UK based, just google them. Publisher's might be able to give details of their clients as their clients could get business, if not, find out who made the games published your own way by looking at the cases.

I'm still deciding on a gap year I was thinking of seeing if it was possible to make a publishable (or published) game for a gap year project, however I am reconsidering taking a gap year, some people are refused by some uni's depending on what they do in their gap year, I know someone who did a computing course in Italy who couldn't get into uni, then again the course he did wasn't very good.

Also I am reconsidering because that idea doesn't quite fit into Creative Writing in the English language

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Jeku
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EA over here does internships, so Criterion (EA UK) might as well.


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Raven
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Wouldn't mind knowing the rough area of where you are though, would help quite a bit.

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Chris K
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Well, the south, I guess. But I would hardly mind moving to Scotland if it meant working at Rockstar North.

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Raven
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How far south is, south? lol
Just wondering which area you're in is all. You don't have to say the town or such, but a shire would help.

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Megaton Cat
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I wonder if EA would take me as Art Director.


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Chris K
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Dorset, so I guess that's South. But seriously I was planning on getting accomodation so it doesn't really matter...

@ Megaton
EA actually seem to be really good for getting started, check the website. It's weird, I'd heard they were real hardcore bastards... probably a gingerbread house-style scam.

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Raven
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I take it your quite handy with C++, right?
Do you have particular area of expertise...
Aritificial Intelligence, Physics, Shaders, Resource Management, etc.?

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Perhaps you could consider taking the year in industry as part of your degree? Went to Warwick University yesterday to look around the CompSci dept, they offer a year placement in industry where you work as a programmer for a whole year. The upside is after having had two years tuition, you know more and so can do more interesting work and its a learning experience so you can come back and ace the exams.

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