The Job Market
Scientists in Computer Gaming: *Feature Index*
By
Next Wave Staff
October 01, 1999
1 OCTOBER 1999
Introduction
How would you like to spend your professional life doing nothing but playing computer games?
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Greg Street
left marine science for the gaming industry when he saw an online want ad for game designers.
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Michael Skolones
wanted to understand the universe as a physicist, but instead ended up working in the exciting world of 3D-interactive technology.
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Andy Karn
got his foot in the gaming door when he wrote a demo screen saver for Berkeley Systems' well-know screen-saver package,
After Dark.
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Shirley Pepke
worked on game software for over 2 years and says she can still count the number of female programmers she knows on one hand.
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Joe Decuir
thought he wanted to go to medical school, but instead he ended up making people happy by designing games.
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Bryan Galdrikian
started out studying quantum wells, but he had always loved to program and wanted a job in which he could contribute a lot with his math skills.
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