good book recomendation, now i have to move

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Submitted by davidcoen on
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Job and Work Experience

A while ago, i asked for book recomendations to get a little further ahead with my programming. Thankyou everyone for the sugestions, and while i have only read 'code complete' so far, i now have a new job in melborne, as a programmer (in a games company)

incase anyone is interested is seeing what got me the job, i have writen a small directX fighting game, own animation and physics system, which can be downloaded or just look at the movies, here

http://www.dsc223.com/

was also trying to get 'burnout' finished before showing off this site, it is a 'scorched earth' 3d implementation, but will take a week or so to finished it (it is a small project i am doing as a break from 3 months working on the fighting game. Implemented a 'marching cubes' style game world (polygons placed on the boundary between solid terain and air~ so it allow much more damage to be done to the terain, think swiss cheese)

thanks for your time,

DSC

Submitted by Makk on Mon, 02/02/04 - 2:01 AM Permalink

Congrats on the job :)

Submitted by jacobt on Mon, 02/02/04 - 4:43 AM Permalink

Hey that's great news, nice one David! I'm downloading the game now.

Your skills set is nuts [:)]

Submitted by Malus on Mon, 02/02/04 - 8:55 PM Permalink

Congrats, thats excellent news David.

Submitted by souri on Tue, 03/02/04 - 1:40 AM Permalink

Good stuff, David. Any chance of letting us know who you're going to work for? [;)]

Submitted by davidcoen on Tue, 03/02/04 - 10:53 AM Permalink

thanks for the kind comments. Don't think that it is a secret, just bullant (which reminds me, should cancel the art job aplication that i have with there sister company, IR gurus)

Submitted by Richard Lyons on Tue, 03/02/04 - 9:33 PM Permalink

For the record Bullant Studios is a privately held company with no relationship with IR Gurus.

To my knowledge David Coen has not been offered a position at Bullant Studios.

Richard Lyons
Lead Artist
Bullant studios

Submitted by Idaho on Wed, 04/02/04 - 1:36 AM Permalink

If ur not working at Bullant, where are you working?

Submitted by davidcoen on Wed, 04/02/04 - 12:10 PM Permalink

my confusion, though antjuice was the same as bullant... i think my habit of only going online once i'm too tired to do any more programming is getting to be a bad habit

Posted by davidcoen on
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Job and Work Experience

A while ago, i asked for book recomendations to get a little further ahead with my programming. Thankyou everyone for the sugestions, and while i have only read 'code complete' so far, i now have a new job in melborne, as a programmer (in a games company)

incase anyone is interested is seeing what got me the job, i have writen a small directX fighting game, own animation and physics system, which can be downloaded or just look at the movies, here

http://www.dsc223.com/

was also trying to get 'burnout' finished before showing off this site, it is a 'scorched earth' 3d implementation, but will take a week or so to finished it (it is a small project i am doing as a break from 3 months working on the fighting game. Implemented a 'marching cubes' style game world (polygons placed on the boundary between solid terain and air~ so it allow much more damage to be done to the terain, think swiss cheese)

thanks for your time,

DSC

Submitted by Makk on Mon, 02/02/04 - 2:01 AM Permalink

Congrats on the job :)

Submitted by jacobt on Mon, 02/02/04 - 4:43 AM Permalink

Hey that's great news, nice one David! I'm downloading the game now.

Your skills set is nuts [:)]

Submitted by Malus on Mon, 02/02/04 - 8:55 PM Permalink

Congrats, thats excellent news David.

Submitted by souri on Tue, 03/02/04 - 1:40 AM Permalink

Good stuff, David. Any chance of letting us know who you're going to work for? [;)]

Submitted by davidcoen on Tue, 03/02/04 - 10:53 AM Permalink

thanks for the kind comments. Don't think that it is a secret, just bullant (which reminds me, should cancel the art job aplication that i have with there sister company, IR gurus)

Submitted by Richard Lyons on Tue, 03/02/04 - 9:33 PM Permalink

For the record Bullant Studios is a privately held company with no relationship with IR Gurus.

To my knowledge David Coen has not been offered a position at Bullant Studios.

Richard Lyons
Lead Artist
Bullant studios

Submitted by Idaho on Wed, 04/02/04 - 1:36 AM Permalink

If ur not working at Bullant, where are you working?

Submitted by davidcoen on Wed, 04/02/04 - 12:10 PM Permalink

my confusion, though antjuice was the same as bullant... i think my habit of only going online once i'm too tired to do any more programming is getting to be a bad habit