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12-27-05, 10:26 AM
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#1 | | Adamantium Golem Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England
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Heya, just thought I would like a future career in computer games programming...but I feel I just need some questions answered:
What's it like to be one? I know all the requirements for it...I mean are they social and stuff? I heard they have no social life and...I'm really scared about that, because Im a super social guy, and i dont want that to be stopped when I started the career!
Help!
Edd.
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12-27-05, 11:14 AM
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#2 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix
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My bro programs all sorts a things... including some game stuff... and he's always at the bar.
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12-27-05, 11:47 AM
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#3 | | Project Team Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Denmark
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So you think the job defines the person, and all game programmers are alike? |  | | |
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#4 | | Administrator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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What's it like to be one? I know all the requirements for it...I mean are they social and stuff? I heard they have no social life and...I'm really scared about that, because Im a super social guy, and i dont want that to be stopped when I started the career!
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#5 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Washington (East Side)
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Tedulas - 12/27/2005 3:26 PM
What's it like to be one? I know all the requirements for it...I mean are they social and stuff? I heard they have no social life and...I'm really scared about that, because Im a super social guy, and i dont want that to be stopped when I started the career!
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12-28-05, 07:09 AM
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#6 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Sweden
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| RE: Computer games programmer...
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Tedulas - 12/27/2005 9:26 PM
Heya, just thought I would like a future career in computer games programming...but I feel I just need some questions answered:
What's it like to be one? I know all the requirements for it...I mean are they social and stuff? I heard they have no social life and...I'm really scared about that, because Im a super social guy, and i dont want that to be stopped when I started the career!
Help!
Edd.
| Game programmers usually have much tougher deadlines than "normal software programmers", which results in less time for social stuff. More people like these things too, which means harder to get job...
I suggest you to become a "normal" one first, and maybe change to "game" one later. 
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#7 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Suffield CT
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There are two things that i fear in this world... Clowns and game programmers...
Nuff said *slinks off*
Edit: they have no social life OUT SIDE their office...
I have heard horror stories fromt he guys that programmed Grand turismo 4... they slept under their desks never saw the light of day and were fed rarely because they were too busy getting the game done so they ended up lookling like gollum
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#8 | | Lich Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: On the moon with the rest of the space kitties
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I think the social requirements are the same as any other computer nerds. Caffination cravings during crunch time, taste buds honed for cold pizza, disgust in pop music, hellish nightmares involving pixilized avatars and floods of ones and zeros. As far as interpersonal communication goes, that wouldn't really change at all. Heck, I'm a rock star and I date less than most computer programmers.
Too many bad memories of fetching my guitar from the pawnshop after a messy breakup and being stalked...
You can eat my cat, call my mom, set my porch on fire, just leave my Stratocaster out of it!
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#9 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Northern CA Bay Area
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I started as a coder and now I travel all over the world working on future technologies. Jump in the water is fine 
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