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Re:UK Codemasters Sold to Take-Two Games by richardjdare on Saturday November 07, 2020 @11:09AM (#25015850)
Ah, I almost got a job as a level designer at Blitz Games but I found out from an insider that they gave it to a guy who had done the exact thing at another company. They would have got me on board if he hadn't shown up.

All the game developers I applied to were incredibly slow in their communications. It would take weeks to arrange an interview and subsequently get a response back from them. I often thought, "Can I afford to take the time to apply to another games company?" Eventually I got into web dev with a couple of friends of mine, and work on games in my own time.

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Re:UK Codemasters Sold to Take-Two Games by CodeGlitch on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:54PM (#25018457)
I think you did the right thing. Although game development was pretty fun at times, I feel like it had a negative effect on my programming career. There was no culture of learning, it was all about getting to the next release date in one piece!
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