Comments on: NCsoft = teh awesome. http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/ Jon Jones is an Art Outsourcing Manager in the video game industry. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:02:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jonjones http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-445 jonjones Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:09:23 +0000 http://www.thejonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/#comment-445 Oh, man, that's awesome to hear! Thanks for the post and best of luck with the interview, dude. Hopefully I'll see you around soon... :) Oh, man, that’s awesome to hear! Thanks for the post and best of luck with the interview, dude. Hopefully I’ll see you around soon… :)

]]> By: googamuck http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-439 googamuck Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:11:13 +0000 http://www.thejonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/#comment-439 Jon, I don't know you... but I will be having a phone interview for a position with NCSoft on Thursday (10/05) and I was researching the company. I was so thrilled to come across your site and read the positive views you have on NC and Austin in general. It sounds like an awesome place and I hope I get a chance to be a part of the team. Reguardless, I am GOING to live in Austin. I am actively looking down there and just wanted to convey to you what a positive impact your postings have had on me today. After being the "different" one in so many stuffy corporate environments, it would be nice to finally fit in to such a killer team. Thanks! Jon, I don’t know you… but I will be having a phone interview for a position with NCSoft on Thursday (10/05) and I was researching the company. I was so thrilled to come across your site and read the positive views you have on NC and Austin in general. It sounds like an awesome place and I hope I get a chance to be a part of the team. Reguardless, I am GOING to live in Austin. I am actively looking down there and just wanted to convey to you what a positive impact your postings have had on me today. After being the “different” one in so many stuffy corporate environments, it would be nice to finally fit in to such a killer team. Thanks!

]]> By: jonjones http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-372 jonjones Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:48:05 +0000 http://www.thejonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/#comment-372 Wow, didn't realize that was all at once. I remember each of them individually but didn't have any sense of chronology there. That must have been awful. Grew up in Austin? Lucky man! I wish I'd been here longer. SoCal was a hellhole, nightmarish experience for me. Made some friends, learned a lot, shipped a great game, that much was good, but I wasted a lot of time and and life there, and I'm just glad it's all over. It's kinda funny when you have those almost comically extreme, unequivocally terrible experiences with something to violently mold your opinions forevermore. Like how I can't even imagine visiting SoCal for years, just for what a mostly shit time I had there. I'm just happy it got me here. :) How's life at Wideload? Is your next project announced yet? I don't know if you knew but I was actually at Liquid Development when they were working on Stubbs, though I had no involvement with that particular project. Wow, didn’t realize that was all at once. I remember each of them individually but didn’t have any sense of chronology there. That must have been awful.

Grew up in Austin? Lucky man! I wish I’d been here longer. SoCal was a hellhole, nightmarish experience for me. Made some friends, learned a lot, shipped a great game, that much was good, but I wasted a lot of time and and life there, and I’m just glad it’s all over.

It’s kinda funny when you have those almost comically extreme, unequivocally terrible experiences with something to violently mold your opinions forevermore. Like how I can’t even imagine visiting SoCal for years, just for what a mostly shit time I had there. I’m just happy it got me here. :)

How’s life at Wideload? Is your next project announced yet? I don’t know if you knew but I was actually at Liquid Development when they were working on Stubbs, though I had no involvement with that particular project.

]]> By: Christopher McArthur http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Christopher McArthur Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:36:22 +0000 http://www.thejonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/#comment-371 Origin, Ion Storm, Acclaim, Skylab, Outlaw, Take 2's Austin team, Criterion austin, all shut down almost at around the same time, and probably some others I am not remembering. Made it extremely difficult to get rehired in Austin. I actually grew up in Austin, and left it to work in the game industry, then came back to go back to school at UT, and got a job at Skylab, an austin startup until it went under. Havnt worked in SoCal, but hear of a lot of Austin devs fleeing from there =) Origin, Ion Storm, Acclaim, Skylab, Outlaw, Take 2′s Austin team, Criterion austin, all shut down almost at around the same time, and probably some others I am not remembering. Made it extremely difficult to get rehired in Austin.

I actually grew up in Austin, and left it to work in the game industry, then came back to go back to school at UT, and got a job at Skylab, an austin startup until it went under.

Havnt worked in SoCal, but hear of a lot of Austin devs fleeing from there =)

]]> By: jonjones http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-370 jonjones Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:18:28 +0000 http://www.thejonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/#comment-370 You totally should! This place is on fire! :) I didn't realize there was a mass extinction like that. The only time I noticed Austin was this year when I found out Austin had 25 - 30 developers in town, was cheap to live in, had companies that all paid well and wasn't Southern Fucking California. heheh. What studio(s) were you with in Austin, if'n you don't mind my asking? You totally should! This place is on fire! :)

I didn’t realize there was a mass extinction like that. The only time I noticed Austin was this year when I found out Austin had 25 – 30 developers in town, was cheap to live in, had companies that all paid well and wasn’t Southern Fucking California. heheh.

What studio(s) were you with in Austin, if’n you don’t mind my asking?

]]> By: Christopher McArthur http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Christopher McArthur Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:10:23 +0000 http://www.thejonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/#comment-369 Im in Chicago now, I left Austin a few years ago, when just about every game development company in Austin shut down within 6 months of eachother. Like 30% of my company is ex-austin game developers who left at the exact same time, and I know like 6 more here in Chicago. Now that the Austin GD scene is picking back up again, it is time for us all to return in force! Also, jon, keep up the posts like this, they are very inspiring! Im in Chicago now, I left Austin a few years ago, when just about every game development company in Austin shut down within 6 months of eachother. Like 30% of my company is ex-austin game developers who left at the exact same time, and I know like 6 more here in Chicago. Now that the Austin GD scene is picking back up again, it is time for us all to return in force!

Also, jon, keep up the posts like this, they are very inspiring!

]]> By: jonjones http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-368 jonjones Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:23:17 +0000 http://www.thejonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/#comment-368 Christopher, where are you now and what took you away from this beautiful place? :) Erin, thanks so much, that really means a lot to me, particularly since you knew pretty well where I was coming from. :) And I never told you about the police chopper?! I've been telling everybody! Poke me online later, whydonchya? Christopher, where are you now and what took you away from this beautiful place? :)

Erin, thanks so much, that really means a lot to me, particularly since you knew pretty well where I was coming from. :)

And I never told you about the police chopper?! I’ve been telling everybody! Poke me online later, whydonchya?

]]> By: ZzLeigh http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-367 ZzLeigh Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:11:01 +0000 http://www.thejonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/#comment-367 Holy hell man! I knew you were having a fantastic time, but I had no idea it was this crazy! Good on you, it's amazing and you definitely deserve it. Also, you totally need to tell me the police helicopter story sometime. I'm dying to know. Holy hell man! I knew you were having a fantastic time, but I had no idea it was this crazy! Good on you, it’s amazing and you definitely deserve it.

Also, you totally need to tell me the police helicopter story sometime. I’m dying to know.

]]> By: Christopher McArthur http://www.jonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-366 Christopher McArthur Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:05:43 +0000 http://www.thejonjones.com/2006/09/12/ncsoft-teh-awesome/#comment-366 Man, this post really made me miss Austin for some reason. *bursts into tears* Man, this post really made me miss Austin for some reason. *bursts into tears*

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