So, here come the results of my “googling” about game development :
I started with those key words :
1) game development how to because it’s quite explicit after all, if we want to work on game industry
- http://www.gdmag.com/homepage.htm :
A game development magazine, could be interesting - http://www.gamasutra.com/ :
Game development / Job offers => developers’ reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_development :
Game development description - http://www.parisgdc.com/ :
Paris game dev conference / Interviews – Conferences (French)
others :
=> Game developers sites
2) Then , I looked for interviews so I added the key word : game development how to interview
- http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060518/sheffield_01.shtml :
2006 interview with Tose, asian developer, talks about his job (text) - http://www.xbox-platinium.com/Game-Development-Magazine,1733.html :
2003 interview, game dev journalist – (French – text) - http://plus.maths.org/issue7/interview/index.html :
Andrew Wensley career in Eidos (Tomb Raider) – (text) - http://mashable.com/2008/09/27/gendai-games/ :
Game dev on web / iPhone / Drag & drop system – 2D & 3D maybe / Future possibilities (video 10:00 min) => Interesting but specific
3) So I was looking for videos, I added the key “video” but with “interview”, otherwise we would have too many results with “video games” so it wouldn’t be helpful : game development how to “video interview”:
- http://www.jobmonkey.com/videogamejobs/video_game_developer_interview.html :
Game designer interview / About the job (Text) - http://kidconfidence.com/blogs/2007/03/06/game-developer-conference-gdc-coverage-a-podcast-interview-with-dr-debbie-denise-reese-about-video-games-as-a-learning-tool/ :
Game development as a learning tool / (Podcast) => Interesting but once again very specific - http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/beyondgoodevil/video/6075520/beyond-good–evil-developer-interview-2 :
Ubisoft / Michel Ancel / (Video) => French speaking English, very bad accent, interesting about the way of designing a game : Beyond good and evil - http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/video-interview.html :
Smash Bros developer / Character design / (Video)
3) I had too many videos in specific games so it wasn’t always interesting, I searched for some podcasts : game development how to podcast
- http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-04/episode-92-introduction-game-development :
Software Engineering Radio / (Podcast 40:00) => Introduction to Game Development => Very interesting but a bit long, advertissment in the beginning - http://www.gdcradio.net/2007/09/game_career_sessions.html :
About careers / Lots of podcasts-conference
