A game producer has analyzed usage statistics of their I-Phone game and noted that 80% of the players in the high score list consisted of pirates and that 0% of those players bought the game later in the shop.
So much for that argument by the pirates!

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Yesterday I visited the “Games Academy” in Frankfurt. You can find their website here (german). There was a short presentation about Game Design and then an open question time about the academy itself, the game industry and the curriculum. All in all a very interesting concept. I don’t know yet if it’s worth the time but they sure offer some interesting lectures and more importantly have a very good contact to the games industry. It would be a cool addition to my degree in C.S. but I don’t know if I want to invest another two years… There is a trial course in march, I might want to join that one In the meantime I will find a work somewhere else, continue to program on my own project and maybe do some self-studying. I think I’m lacking a bit experience working with up-to-date game programming libraries/tools, I still miss those old days with ModeX when everything was easy and straightforward Now it’s all bloom and 3D

Last friday I finished a major project at university. I am working as a research assistant there and got the job to write a paper about my diploma thesis. It turned out very well, now I’m waiting for some responses to make some final adjustments. After that I have to complete a small consulting job at a different project (rearranging some code in a large software project, a virtual robot simulation), then all that is left is learning for my final exam.

New perspectives, well, I thought again about starting my promotion at university (Ph.D.) but I will wait until I have the responses of all the companies I wrote to. Currently I’m looking out into the game industry, maybe they have some interesting positions (e.g. artificial intelligence), and they pay well I have heard

I finally got one of these, partly because I suddenly needed a cheap replacement for my broken laptop, partly because I wanted to have a real portable unit.
I feared that all this thing could do was maybe wordpad and some simple email program… how wrong I was! Despite its relatively slow Atom280 processor it runs nearly everything I need Office, programming, web, videos, … One has to remember that speed depends also heavily on the harddisk
It has 10 hours of battery, a 1024×600 screen, 2GB RAM and running WinXP. Opening several HQ videos is a bad idea, multimedia in general and compiling is notable slower, but other than that it’s perfect :> With a large external monitor (up to 2048×1536) it easily replaces my old (much faster) laptop.
Oh, I bought the 1005HA-H model from Asus

I finally have some time to write about my experiences at the “talents” job faire in munich. All in all it was an interesting experience, so many well-dressed job applicants at one place!
I talked to several companies, the main subject was what exactly they mean when advertising a job as an “IT-Analyst”, “IT-Consultant”, “IT-Expert” etc.
The main things I have learned are the following:
- Trust your instinct, if you feel bad about a company (and if your feeling corresponds to your wishes and if you have enough self-awareness) then follow the feeling and apply somewhere else
- My education is more worth than I thought
- Every applicant has nothing but A-Grades, is running three companies and speaks ten languages ( – titles and job experience count!)
- I know now better what I actually expect from a job
- Having a C.V. in english would be cool
- Always take with you electronic equipment (my laptop was broken :< ), it helps

Oh and most important:
- Internships help to determine which job you like

On 8/25/09 and 8/26/09 I’m in Munich at the “Talents” job fair (see www.talents.de ). I’m curious what firms there are and I hope for some interesting speeches and talks.
Just drop me a line if you want to meet me in Munich or if you’re a visitor at the job fair as well.

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