by John Hoskin on May 31, 2007
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Joe Ludwig, the Director of Development at Flying Lab Software has posted a fantastic article about his first three months in the game industry as part of the Middle-Earth Online team.
"All this talk about Sigil reminds me of the bad old days when I worked at Sierra on Middle-Earth Online. Much of the crap that the people at Sigil are slogging through right now is the same crap that we had to deal with back in 1999.
It seemed like everything was going well until⦠One Monday morning at the end of February I arrived at the office, as usual, a bit before 10am. The first clue I had that something was wrong was that nobody was working. Everyone was standing around talking. It seems that all the Maya and Max dongles were missing, so none of the artists could work. Someone had come in over the weekend and taken them all. The internet connection was also down, along with the email server. No one from IT could be found, which wasnât entirely unheard of since IT support at Yosemite Entertainment was typically pretty bad, but not being able to find any of them when all the important servers where down was strange."
Employee turnover in the game industry is fast and furious. Joe gives you an inside look at how it was handled while he was at Yosemite Entertainment. If you are looking for job security, this isn't the industry for you. I'll bet that many of you would still like to be part of the gaming world though.
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