Adding to the question above about artists, do you bring on artists for different projects, or is all the work done by in house artists?
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Adding to the question above about artists, do you bring on artists for different projects, or is all the work done by in house artists?
Y'know, it'd much easier for all of us if the job description pages were in English, not Swedish, especially when you ask for the application in English 
Do you offer any help to move to Sweden for those who are accepted? Crossing the Atlantic isn't free
Do you offer any help to move to Sweden for those who are accepted? Crossing the Atlantic isn't free
Y'know, it'd much easier for all of us if the job description pages were in English, not Swedish, especially when you ask for the application in English
Do you offer any help to move to Sweden for those who are accepted? Crossing the Atlantic isn't free
You pay for it in motivation.
Y'know, it'd much easier for all of us if the job description pages were in English, not Swedish, especially when you ask for the application in English
Do you offer any help to move to Sweden for those who are accepted? Crossing the Atlantic isn't free
We are really looking for someone who knows Swedish. That person must also know very good English of course, which is why we want the application in English. We have hired a few people from outside of Sweden, that has been really good, but exceptions none the less. We do not have moving help, but do we have a Swedish tutor that comes in. For someone who is a really good fit, I think we could hire someone who lives outside of Sweden again, but I think that person would have to come to us and not wait for the perfect job ad.
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Around 10-11. BASIC (made lots of really bad adventure RPGs and some 2d action games that were even worse).
As for general advice, don't expect your university program to teach you what you need to know. Its a great way to pick up basics of learning and to broaden your skillbase, but 90% of what you will use is going to be from stuff you yourself have learned in your free time or by picking narrow special courses. Do lots of projects in your spare time, alone or in a group as long as the group isn't slowing down your learning and start hanging out on game development and coding forums. There is a ton of good knowledge in those places.
I personally think acquiring skills in a large variety of languages is super important (take 6 months and learn a new language every month is a good start), however you need one language you are really an expert in, which for game development would be C++ in most cases.
This will probably sound liek a very noobish thing to ask ,for you guys but , is HTML - PHP - CSS - javascript... considered a different language? Or do you mean java ,c++ , c# , c ...
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those are all languages, although HTML is debatable. Javascript is actually a really good language in its own right, up there with python/lua etc.
IMO its important not to just stick to "java ,c++ , c# , c". Those languages are basically the same with some small differences. I was thinking more like branching out into Ruby/Python/smalltalk/Lisp, Haskell/ML, erlang etc and such to get perspective. Basically each language has a few good ideas its built around which you can probably use in other languages. its mind expanding anyway.
ASM and shell script for the win.
And always wondered from a software company point of view, do you consider chips programming languages (VHDL/Verilog) as a language worth mentionning ?
And always wondered from a software company point of view, do you consider chips programming languages (VHDL/Verilog) as a language worth mentionning ?
10000 hours in any language to become a good programmer... and additional 10000 hours to be able to produce something in C++
Though, if take a look to the C++ code of Doom 3, for example, it appears to be very nice (as some guy said, "C with classes").
By the way, is there any code of old Clausewitz engine which can be looked at? I believe I saw somewhere something like news about it being open-source now (or probably it was about another company, bad memory).
PS: to someone who asked: I fully agreed with someone who answered somewhere above about an University. I often see that people on internet have thoughts like "I will study in University -> I will graduate and will find cool work". Such passive position is dangerously wrong - do not sit and wait when you will be thought something. Unless go into science, I would consider university courses as supplementary. They will probably teach you nice things like math and complicated algorithms and what-so-ever, but they will not teach you programming. And it can be proven by seeing any curriculum of any university. And by job listings also - even for Junior positions employers usually want to see people with at least some experience, and not just BSc/BEng education level. "Java course C100500" is not really what you want, it is a thrash. All what you need from Java you can go and get it on your own, without lecturing man (ask him by the way, how much real software he developed?) Of course, there is various situations in various countries and universities, but they mostly similar in one (unless it is an University of Applied Sciences like Ammattikorkeakoulu in Finland) - they teach fundamental theory. It is very cool, interesting and sometimes required, but it is still theory. You can not read and solve all the Donald Knuth's books and then go directly for a programmer's position, it is just not enough. IMHO.
PPS: here is job posting for some company, not game-development, C++ Junior. I think it is pretty typical:
There is a good quote about learning:
PPPS: and do not forget this historical comics
Though, if take a look to the C++ code of Doom 3, for example, it appears to be very nice (as some guy said, "C with classes").
By the way, is there any code of old Clausewitz engine which can be looked at? I believe I saw somewhere something like news about it being open-source now (or probably it was about another company, bad memory).
PS: to someone who asked: I fully agreed with someone who answered somewhere above about an University. I often see that people on internet have thoughts like "I will study in University -> I will graduate and will find cool work". Such passive position is dangerously wrong - do not sit and wait when you will be thought something. Unless go into science, I would consider university courses as supplementary. They will probably teach you nice things like math and complicated algorithms and what-so-ever, but they will not teach you programming. And it can be proven by seeing any curriculum of any university. And by job listings also - even for Junior positions employers usually want to see people with at least some experience, and not just BSc/BEng education level. "Java course C100500" is not really what you want, it is a thrash. All what you need from Java you can go and get it on your own, without lecturing man (ask him by the way, how much real software he developed?) Of course, there is various situations in various countries and universities, but they mostly similar in one (unless it is an University of Applied Sciences like Ammattikorkeakoulu in Finland) - they teach fundamental theory. It is very cool, interesting and sometimes required, but it is still theory. You can not read and solve all the Donald Knuth's books and then go directly for a programmer's position, it is just not enough. IMHO.
PPS: here is job posting for some company, not game-development, C++ Junior. I think it is pretty typical:
There is a good quote about learning:
http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/marketing-yourself-as-a-programmer
PPPS: and do not forget this historical comics
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The only thing I know about C++ is that the 'C' is on the right side of the 'X'..also the '+' is under the '-' and you need to double tap that button.:huh: I suspect that if I were to apply to paradox I would end up cleaning toilets? :unsure:
I like that comic.
Our engine is not open source I'm afraid. We have licensed it out a couple of times, that's all.
I like that comic.
Our engine is not open source I'm afraid. We have licensed it out a couple of times, that's all.
May I ask to who? And for what game?
May I ask to who? And for what game?
Well, there once was a game called Magna Mundi. That has not been released though. Right now we have the East vs West team working with the Clausewitz engine.
Then we also have games like Arsenal of Democracy, Darkest Hour, Iron Cross and For the Glory, but they were based on the older Europa Engine.
They published those games but if I remember right, those are mods that eventaully went retail, at least some of them I believe.
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we published them, but the development is done by other studios/developers that licensed our code and built on it.
True but I meant as in the sense of another Dev/Publisher. As in not published by you. You have nothing to do with the game.
You know I had the exact same thought many times in undergrad CS classes, and even when learning the same Time complexity algorithms depicted in the comic.
Same thoughts with "N-Dimensional Euclidean space", Predicate Calculus (Which turned out pretty cool when you master it) and some of the advanced Linguistics courses (My Specialist degree was in AI).