Name of your host: Craig Hall Relationship to you: Father
The Interview: (ask your host these questions)
1. What is your job title? Director/Software Engineer
2. What is your job description? Game/Software Developer
3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job? Writing Code/Art/Music/Design
4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
a) training? Self taught
b) education? Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from university of Calgary
c) experience? Working in the Game Industry since 1998
d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)? Good at logic and math
5. What are some of the things you like about the job? Enjoy being creative, solving hard problems
6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job? Bugs
7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so? Less low level engineering, project size is becoming smaller, more pre-made assets,
Other question (s):
Student Reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
a) Express my creativity with story and concepts.
b) Make something for people to enjoy.
c) Good payoff (reviews, sense of achievement, money).
2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
a) Bugs in the program.
b) Very complicated (code).
c) I get distracted easily.
3. Is this job for you? Why or why not? Perhaps. While this job has many qualities that I like, I still find myself befuddled by all the coding. I may come to learn these things but for now I’ll consider it.
4. Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?). It made me want to think about my current choices and what I want to do, and incidentally I want to get better at writing.