The personal blog of game designer, programmer and Cand. Scient. Informatics, Jimmy Marcus Larsen. Currently working as a game designer at Cego ApS.
December 26, 2007 at 23:08
That is my new title. I was offered a job as game designer at a local casual games company, and last week I had my first few days of work. Seems like a great place with nice people and ambitions to expand. I won’t be spending the the full week at the company yet though, as I still need to finish my thesis and the Nintendo DS game I’m working on as part of it.
So far being a game designer is very different from being a game programmer, as I don’t get to create anything concrete. I hope my ideas and direction will lead the others to create great games, but I really feel they are the ones doing the actual work. In time, perhaps I will feel more valuable to the production - after all, it is mostly my responsibility that the games turn out to be fun.
Merry Christmas!
December 4, 2007 at 23:53
I have been following an evening course in japanese this fall, and today was the last lesson. I had hoped to have a lot of time for something extra like that, but unfortunately the thesis work have taken most of my time. Still, even without much course preparation I did manage to learn basic stuff like hiragana and katakana, a few words and sentences and some simple language patterns that can be reused for creating new sentences.
Now what to do with this knowledge? I would like to improve it with another course, as I’m not able to even nearly follow an anime or a japanese game yet. I would also like to improve it by actually going to Japan. Perhaps working as a game designer or game programmer for a few years. Just to try it. Nintendo? Squaresoft? Someone a bit smaller? Feel free to contact me right away :-)
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