by Stuart · June 17, 2010
Some of you might have been wondering what I do for a day job. Am I Superhero? A ninja? A pirate? A spy? A super hero ninja pirate spy? Well I can finally reveal what I have been doing to pay the rent for the last few months because my latest project has been announced:
I’m a designer on the Killzone computer game franchise. That’s right, I get to play computer games and call it research. My day job involves making computer games.
Stuart
Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.
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You have a very cool job. :) And that jet pack is completely awesome.
Cool! I already knew that you were a game developer (you slipped up somewhere last year. :) ) But this is really cool! I’m not a game freak myself (apart from the Sims) but loads of friends do play shooters, so I’ve sat and watched loads of baddies being killed, while having a drink. :)
Oh, me having the drink, not the baddies. :)
wow, wish i can play games and call it a research ;)
Is there a game for petrochemical sector, playing which can be convinced as R & D? ;) hehe
Lies!!!! Foul lies!!! You’re a Motivational Self-Help Pimp, and you know it.
Looks seriously cool. My sons want to know how to get a job like that!
You’ve got one of the best jobs on the planet!
Aww, you should’ve added a proof of.. euhm… right to show that vid. It has been deleted :(
Amanda – Thank you
Anneke – It would have made for an interesting game if it was the bad guys having a drink :)
Lopa – Maybe in a Sim’s extension pack :p
kiks – Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone.
Sarah – It depends what area of it he wants to get into. There are lots of different areas; code, animation, modelling, design, art and lots of others. Once you know what area you are interested in there are a lot of courses out there that are a good starting pointing. Then it is a case of getting out there and getting experience. I did a course in design myself. If he knows what area of computer game development he is most interested in I could give you a more detailed answer.
A Touch of Dutch blog – Not as good as a super hero ninja pirate spy though :p
Dykam – Thanks for pointing out the mistake. I’ve linked to a working one now.
Super cool man ! But I have to confess something: when I first started reading your blog I had this feeling, this intuition that “Stu” was a character and the blog was made by two or three guys. Up to one day during a dinner party at Andy’s Amanda Perino told me she actually knew you and that you were indeed a person – not a cartoon. Feminine intuition… humpf !
That is awesome! I can’t tell my husband because he will be supremely jealous…
Wow! “Bring Your Child to Work” day sure will be interesting when/if you have kids. :]
Now I know what my sister’s boyfriend is going to be doing this summer :) He has a tattoo of the Killzone II on his chest!
So what do you do, designing game play or backgrounds and stuff?
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I knew already you work for Guerrilla (read it somewhere I think), and everyone and his mother expected you guys to be working on the next Killzone, so that wasn’t much of a surprise. ;-)
I am however interested in what it is you’re doing. Designer is a very generic term, gamedesign, graphicsdesign, character design, I’m sure I’m forgetting some. So I guess my question is if you could elaborate a bit more on what kind of design you do, or am I asking a bit too much here?
Way cool: do you do graphics, storyline, animations…it seems like these would be hugely diffficult to assemble. I hope it’s a big success (and that you get a cut!)