[gameprogrammer] Re: Are AO games bad for CVs?

[Bob Pendleton <bob@pendleton.com>]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:22 -0200, Edilson "Dirso" Vasconcelos de Melo
Junior wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> An adult site, SM stuff, offered me some really nice money for a
> simple game, not bloddy, and I’m considering to make it. Since this
> would be the first game with my name on it and since I’m really
> serious about getting into game business I would like to ask the
> professionals here: Should I accept the offer? 
> 
> It’s not about money, since I have a nicely well paid part time job.
> But that’s something I could in my free time, quickly, nice payment,
> nice number of users and it’s not agains my religion (hehe). I WON’T
> do it just for the money, I would do it ONLY if I can use it on my CV.
> 
> What do you think? A nice game studio would reject my CV if I put a
> game like this into my application?

Interesting question... You can release the game under a pseudonym if
you are worried about your real life reputation. If you are in a
strongly religious part of the world you might want to do that just to
keep the idiots off your lawn. OTOH, in the game programming world I
doubt it the subject will make any difference to anyone. It might make
it hard to get a job for a company doing Bible story games but it won't
turn off the folks who wrote "Grand Theft Auto".

The real question is does it bother you to work on such a game. If it
does don't do it, if it does, then do it.

Bob Pendleton
 


> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dirso
> 
> 
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