Computer Games Development

best off if ya have a contact from a company, otherwise it's a pretty horrible process. I had a contact but it fell through and i'm in the process of basically annoying every game development country i can find (and i mean all over the globe) and asking them to take me on. Overheal, if you have american citizenship, i can give you an email address of a company that would more than likely take ya on next year in Reno

you don't HAVE to go to america. but i'm not gonna lie to ya, it's ten times easier to get an intership over there. there's only two companies in ireland taking interships from us this year, microsoft and popcap games. admittidly vivendi and activision are taking people but the college requirements are only BARELY satisfied with these two companies due to their contract length of only 3 months

Havok physics are quite far past what you would be expected to do in our course. In fact they'd be just as interested in hiring physicists.

Reno sounds like a hoot

I suppose, they would have in-house/bought physics engines, so you dont need to worry about physics or anything.

The good ones end up with a job. Im currently entering a Games Development contest known as dare to be digital - entering such things is generally where companies will do their scouting from. I could even win a BAFTA... *cough* but thatll probably never happen because they let the asians enter >_>

a job is not going to be handed to you on this one. Its like an arts course: during the 4 years you will build up a portfolio of work and based on that you will get jobs: not so much the degree itself though it helps. Entering competitions greatly helps your profile and thats what im at.

Activision are looking at CVs as we speak.