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  • Op-ed: From the Outside Looking In [05.15.08]
  • img Brian Nathanson attended a game school and feels it left him underprepared to apply for jobs in the game industry ... or is he not getting interviews for jobs because game studios won't take a chance on an inexperienced candidate? In this op-ed, he airs the conflict as he sees it.
  • Game Developer’s Career Guide Art Contest [05.14.08]
  • img This week, instead of a new design challenge, we’ve got a different kind of challenge for artists. GameCareerGuide.com and Game Developer magazine are holding an art contest, and the winner’s artwork will be featured in Game Developer’s Game Career Guide magazine. (That would be one grand resume bullet point!)
  • Results from James Portnow's Game Design Challenge: The Gun [05.14.08]
  • img Design a new gun for a first-person shooter game -- that was your game design challenge, and the results are in. Read on to find out what made the winning ideas stand out to James Portnow, a professional game designer, and what things he expected to read in the submissions, but didn't.
  • Three Novice Mistakes in Game Design [05.13.08]
  • img Inexperienced game designers are prone to making certain mistakes. David Sushil, an instructor at DeVry University, has compiled his three favorite repeat offenders. Find out what three common mistakes of game design you could avoid just by reading this article.

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  • Full Sail University --Winter Park, FL 
  • Full Sail University Named one of the top five Game Design Schools in the World by Electronic Gaming Monthly, Full Sail's Game Development Bachelor's Degree program can get you on the road to a career designing, developing, and programming games for consoles and comput

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  • LucasArts Drops ESA Membership [05.16.08]
  • img Publisher and developer LucasArts has opted not to renew its membership with the Entertainment Software Association, an ESA rep has told Gamasutra, following the earlier reported departure of Activision and Blizzard from both the organization and the E3 expo.

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  • Opinion: Game Development Needs More 'Share And Share Alike' [05.15.08]
  • img In this Game Developer magazine-reprinted editorial, Brandon Sheffield calls for more open sharing of technology and tools in the worldwide game development business, pointing to Insomniac's 'Nocturnal Initiative' as a notable step in the right direction.