Gabe Newell on Game Careers

Valve's Gabe Newell on Becoming a Game Developer on GameCareerGuide.com is a
conversation with the Valve managing director about how best to pursue a career
in the game development business. The interview is conducted by Dave Perry, who
asks how to get past the Catch-22 of needing experience to get a development
job, and catches a bit of a slap in Gabe's response: "Don't lie. That's just a
disaster on multiple levels. The best thing to do is to start making content
using the mod tools that are out there. Whether you use Civilization or Warcraft
III or Hammer doesn't matter as much as that you are building and shipping stuff
to customers, getting their feedback, and then iterating your work. Mod
development is better in a lot of ways of both honing your skills and
demonstrating your talent to a potential employer than work experience as there
are going to be fewer institutional barriers and creative constraints to limit
the work you do." Thanks Mike Martinez.


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