From: yorka AT dlc DOT fi (aYk)
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Subject: Re: DJ+Allegro & employment?
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 18:35:48 GMT
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On Fri,  5 Jun 1998 03:41:17 -0400 (EDT), James W Sager Iii
<sager+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

>Are there positions available anywhere for people
>with these skill sets as a major portion of the job?
>I am tired of spending all my time coding a game with no compensation,
>and would like to get paid to develop games commercially.

Sorry to break this to you but getting a job in the computer game
industry is virtually impossible with that kind of skills (if you can
call them skills in the 1st place, even my 10-year-old cousin knows
how to use Allegro, real coders make their own libs). 

If you want to get a job as a game programmer, then I suggest you
ditch Allegro and DJGPP, get Visual C++ 5.0, learn Windows 95
programming and DirectX + OpenGL and everything affiliated with 3d
programming, almost every game programmer in the market is a 3d
programmer.

Good luck! You're gonna need it...

- aYk -