This is a book of hundreds of websites covering computer games and video games.
It includes a chapter on the computer games industry including jobs as a computer games developer.
Chapter 1. Computer Games 1
Major Computer Game Websites
The big three controllers are:
GameCube, Nintendo, nintendo.com/games
PlayStation, Sony, playstation.com
Xbox, Microsoft, xbox.com
Microsoft Xbox
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052-6399
425-882-8080
xbox.com
Nintendo of America
Pob 957
Redmond, Washington 980723
800-255-3700
nintendo.com
Sony PlayStation
Pob 5888
San Mateo, California 94402-0888
800-697-7266
playstation.com
For free games through file sharing, type the terms "warez games" or "ROM images" into search engines or go to warez-files.com or gamecopyworld.com.
elspa.com, european entertainment and leisure software publishers assn.
esrb.org, entertainment software ratings board.
theesa.com, entertainment software assn.
escapistmagazine.com
gameguy@canada.com, ask questions.
U.S. Games Systems
800-54games
Information about computer games.
A video game designer works on:
software
hardware, the machine itself
Know programming, especially, video, audio and graphics.
It’s entertainment therefore emotion. Get customers by being emotional.
Many video game designers have a bachelor’s degree in computer programming but it’s a skills field. If you can do the work, you don’t need a degree.
Start by volunteering to test games for companies and offering feedback.
Lots of amateurs create games out of nothing.
Demand for video games is high but only a few big companies create a few big games every year.
Many people want to do this job. You have to be good to get in.
Sit down and create code.
Help out with open source games.
Know C/C++ or Java.
It’s a multibillion dollar industry but I wouldn’t bet on it because only a few companies control most of it, there are plenty of free open-source games out there and people sometimes get tired of things in a big way like I remember listening to the secondlife founder talk about the whole world creating avatars and going on second life but most people got bored of it.
No matter what, there is always a real world that beats a fantasy computer world.
I was looking at the comments on a video game career website. A lot of teenagers want this job.
gamedevelopersummit.com
igda.org
Video game addiction is on its way to being officially classified as a mental disorder in the DSM. Playing video games becomes a problem when the individual plays all the time, abandoning family, friends and other activities.
associatedcontent.com/article/313925/video_game_addiction.html
cleverlimk.com/english/comments/8581
destructoid.com/blogs/ekoala2002/video-game-addiction-a-medical-condition-33580.phtml
drugaddictiontreatment.ca/videogameaddiction
egameaddiction.com/forums
egameconsoles.com/game-console-articles/video-game-stores.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/game_addiction
forbes.com/health/feeds/hscout/2007/06/22/hscout605801.html
freewebs.com/pavga, people against video game addiction.
gamasutra.com/proto_edu/features/316/online_video_game_addiction.php
gamespot.com
grouphug.us/threads/discussion/1233/?feed=rss2
joystiq.com/2006/07/26/dutch-game-addiction-clinic-is-swamped/
mahalo.com/video_game_addiction
mavav.org, mothers against videogame addiction and violence.
mediafamily.org/facts/facts_gameaddiction.shtml
mediafamily.org/resources/video_game_addiction.shtml
medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=82273, playing video games may zap homework
mothernature.com/library/bookshelf/books/50/116.cfm
msnbc.msn.com/id/19354827
myaddiction.com/videogameaddiction.html
nbc10.com/health/2228158/detail.html
nettbeast.com/?p=46, studies have shown
same physio-chemical responses in the brain as cocaine.
sciencedaily.com/articles/computers_math/video_games/
serendip.b
It includes a chapter on the computer games industry including jobs as a computer games developer.
Chapter 1. Computer Games 1
Major Computer Game Websites
The big three controllers are:
GameCube, Nintendo, nintendo.com/games
PlayStation, Sony, playstation.com
Xbox, Microsoft, xbox.com
Microsoft Xbox
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052-6399
425-882-8080
xbox.com
Nintendo of America
Pob 957
Redmond, Washington 980723
800-255-3700
nintendo.com
Sony PlayStation
Pob 5888
San Mateo, California 94402-0888
800-697-7266
playstation.com
For free games through file sharing, type the terms "warez games" or "ROM images" into search engines or go to warez-files.com or gamecopyworld.com.
elspa.com, european entertainment and leisure software publishers assn.
esrb.org, entertainment software ratings board.
theesa.com, entertainment software assn.
escapistmagazine.com
gameguy@canada.com, ask questions.
U.S. Games Systems
800-54games
Information about computer games.
A video game designer works on:
software
hardware, the machine itself
Know programming, especially, video, audio and graphics.
It’s entertainment therefore emotion. Get customers by being emotional.
Many video game designers have a bachelor’s degree in computer programming but it’s a skills field. If you can do the work, you don’t need a degree.
Start by volunteering to test games for companies and offering feedback.
Lots of amateurs create games out of nothing.
Demand for video games is high but only a few big companies create a few big games every year.
Many people want to do this job. You have to be good to get in.
Sit down and create code.
Help out with open source games.
Know C/C++ or Java.
It’s a multibillion dollar industry but I wouldn’t bet on it because only a few companies control most of it, there are plenty of free open-source games out there and people sometimes get tired of things in a big way like I remember listening to the secondlife founder talk about the whole world creating avatars and going on second life but most people got bored of it.
No matter what, there is always a real world that beats a fantasy computer world.
I was looking at the comments on a video game career website. A lot of teenagers want this job.
gamedevelopersummit.com
igda.org
Video game addiction is on its way to being officially classified as a mental disorder in the DSM. Playing video games becomes a problem when the individual plays all the time, abandoning family, friends and other activities.
associatedcontent.com/article/313925/video_game_addiction.html
cleverlimk.com/english/comments/8581
destructoid.com/blogs/ekoala2002/video-game-addiction-a-medical-condition-33580.phtml
drugaddictiontreatment.ca/videogameaddiction
egameaddiction.com/forums
egameconsoles.com/game-console-articles/video-game-stores.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/game_addiction
forbes.com/health/feeds/hscout/2007/06/22/hscout605801.html
freewebs.com/pavga, people against video game addiction.
gamasutra.com/proto_edu/features/316/online_video_game_addiction.php
gamespot.com
grouphug.us/threads/discussion/1233/?feed=rss2
joystiq.com/2006/07/26/dutch-game-addiction-clinic-is-swamped/
mahalo.com/video_game_addiction
mavav.org, mothers against videogame addiction and violence.
mediafamily.org/facts/facts_gameaddiction.shtml
mediafamily.org/resources/video_game_addiction.shtml
medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=82273, playing video games may zap homework
mothernature.com/library/bookshelf/books/50/116.cfm
msnbc.msn.com/id/19354827
myaddiction.com/videogameaddiction.html
nbc10.com/health/2228158/detail.html
nettbeast.com/?p=46, studies have shown
same physio-chemical responses in the brain as cocaine.
sciencedaily.com/articles/computers_math/video_games/
serendip.b
