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Successful Career

from Those Who

Have Done It

Brenda Brathwaite

Ian Schreiber

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Breaking into the

Game Industry:

Advice for a

Breaking into the Game Industry: Advice for a

Successful Career from Those Who Have Done It

Brenda Brathwaite and Ian Schreiber

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Acknowledgments

This book is the result of the experience of a great many friends in the game

industry who have shared their generous advice and a space with us in this

wonderful community. Thanks is also due to the many people hoping to enter

thegameindustrywhohaveaskedusthequestionswhich,onceanswered

again and again, became the inspiration for this book. Thanks, too, to the

Game Developers Conference, which provided the venue for Brenda

’

slecture,

It served as the verbal outline

for this book. Thank you, everyone, for your help in pulling this massive work

together.

Brenda: In addition to everyone included above,

100Questions,97Answers,and56Minutes.

”

ve people

ll my life with

all want to be game

designers and coders in the game industry. Their newfound passion for this

amazing medium constantly reignites my own. I am also deeply inspired by my

longtime friend and love, John Romero, for being a living, walking, breathing

bible of gameplay, game design, and coding knowledge, and love and inspiration.

To have that kind of genius in my world all the time is nothing short of a miracle.

Like my own children, John

—

Maezza, Avalon, and Donovan

—

s son Michael, now in his second year in the industry,

shares our deep love of games and provides a great role model for everyone, but

especially my kids, who want to pursue the dream. My thanks also go out to Nasir

Gebelli and Bill Budge who serve as the founding fathers of the computer game

industry. Everywhere I go, every legendary designer and coder I talk to, they

mention Gebelli or Budge (and sometimes both) as their foundation. Without

them, without players, without my family, without you, my world would not be

the beautiful place it is today. Thank you.

’

“

games and love. My kids

iv Acknowledgments

uences that it is impossible to list everyone

here, but above all I must thank my soul mate and life partner Sharon for her love,

support, and patience during the course of writing this book. Also to my daughter

Janis for enabling me to view the world in completely different ways that will

ultimately make me a better designer. I

m also grateful for my parents, who always

encouraged me to go after my dreams, whether or not my dreams were lucrative.

Finally, I wish to thank anyone, anywhere, who has designed and shipped a game;

the best games inspire me to improve my skills so I can make something as good,

while the worst games inspire me to get out there and prove that I can make

something better.

’

Have fun.

Ian: For me, I have had so many in

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