And, Voila! I gots me a job!
Greetings all!
I have great news to report – I have acquired a new position in a great company, Voofoo Studios based in Wolverhampton, UK. After a busy month of searching around in a very saturated market and taking interviews since being given the games industry finger by THQ, I managed to land this offer, which I think is going to be a great opportunity and will provide many exciting challenges for the future. I am employed as a programmer which will involve tasks throughout the whole game process, gameside, core technology, graphics etc.. so I am able to diversify quite a bit.
About Voofoo Studios
Voofoo is a small, relatively new outfit which is going to be a refreshing and interesting change since I have only worked in medium to large teams before with no real creative control over what is going on.
All of the employees are highly talented individuals and I am very excited to be working there with such a talented team. At present and for the near future Voofoo produce downloadable games on PSN and now have Microsoft backing too to release downloadable games on XBLA. Their last very sucessful title was Hustle Kings available for download for £6.29 on PSN. It is a very polished game and has been very well recieved since its release in the last quarter of 2009, I think they really nailed the genre with this title and it sets the standard of any future games produced by the studio – highly polished, to the point and what the punters really want, I smell no bullshit around!
The combination of a great working relationship with Sony and very well written and diverse tech along side very talented artists is why I think this position appealed to me in the first place. I think the creative drive behind the team is immense and future titles will reflect this.
So, yeh, its been very very busy but I was lucky to find a position that appealed to me quite soon which is one less worry off of my mind, I will just have to get back into the groove again.. Commuting for 4hours in total each day is going to be a big experiment but I am sure that it will be good as there is ample time to boot up the laptop and doing something worthwhile for 2 hours of that journey.
I must say a big thankyou for all the support I have recieved during these stressful times, most of all, all the friends that assisted me in getting interviews at various studios and people that gave me references / linked In recommendations. It all helped a lot, if not directly to get positions but just as a confidence boost if nothing else. I also wish everyone who was either made redundant the same time as me and the existing “THQ Digital Warrington” employees that remain good luck for the future, im sure we will cross paths in the not so distant future!