Last week some colleagues and I took a trip up the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Our company had a booth at the career expo set up there, so I had to put in a couple of hours while people tried to tell why they are AWESOME and should be hired. We had a few good candidates, but a swear I spent about an hour talking with people about comics. Hard life, I know...
I got a chance to walk the industry expo as well. It's kinda nice to be a name in the industry. There are people constantly looking to recruit you or work for you, and you get invited to parties! In the couple of hours on the industry floor. I was approached to work by about a half-dozen companies, and was invited to the Ubisoft, Icarus Studios, and CCP parties that evening.
After a meal, me and my colleagues attended the Icarus Studios Fallen Earth party where they had plenty of food, drinks, and post-apocalypse-dressed hostesses! Their game has a GREAT degree of interactivity and I look forward to playing it when it comes out. While we were there we had a chance to meet Tycho from Penny Arcade! Tycho is a really great guy, and I hope we can meet up with him at PAX later this year.
We went over to the CCP party next where they were doing heavy recruiting for the new White Wolf MMO. Their party was a LOT bigger, being held at a big industrial dance club called dieMASCHINEN. There was again lots of food and drinks, but with more women who were dancing in go-go cages. Man there's a lot of money being spent in this industry...
All in all, it was quite and good time. I put a lot of effort into my work, and it's nice to have events like this where you're treated like a rock star!
