Any correlation

[NotAllThere]

I wonder if there's any correlation between the fact that game companies can't find good programmers and the fact that they pay low wages?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7460870.stm

[TimberWolf]

I wonder if there's any correlation between the fact that game companies can't find good programmers and the fact that they pay low wages?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7460870.stm

Probably just more propaganda to justify importing more people, on low wages.

[sasguru]

I can do the needful. Much cheapness, plenty quickness, tip-top kwality.

Bob Shawadiwadi.

[Marina]

I wonder if there's any correlation between the fact that game companies can't find good programmers and the fact that they pay low wages?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7460870.stm

Probably, and an ambitious uber-geek programmer must go where well-paid gaming jobs, with colleagues of a similar calibre, are easier to come by. So there's a "critical mass" factor too.

[DimPrawn]

The games developers say that they are struggling to find in the UK the kind of high-powered mathematicians and computer scientists that they need to build increasingly sophisticated products.

So, work long hours in the games industry with similar lifeless geeks on low pay, or work in the City, where such skills pay big bucks and the totty is endless?

Tough one that.

[Churchill]

In my day we had:-

1. A programmer
2. A musician shared between 4 or 5 projects
3. An artist, again shared between 4 or 5 projects
4. A guy usually "Gary Bracey" god bless 'im who used to get the Pizza and Coffee when deadlines loomed.

And we were a professional games house!

Games programmers today? They don't know they're born!

[DimPrawn]

In my day we had:-

1. A programmer
2. A musician shared between 4 or 5 projects
3. An artist, again shared between 4 or 5 projects
4. A guy usually "Gary Bracey" god bless 'im who used to get the Pizza and Coffee when deadlines loomed.

And we were a professional games house!

Games programmers today? They don't know they're born!

Things have moved on since Pong grandad!

[Spacecadet]

I wonder if there's any correlation between the fact that game companies can't find good programmers and the fact that they pay low wages?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7460870.stm

its not that badly paid
itjobswatch has a current average of £31K for a full time games developer.
Its not mega bucks but its hardly low wages either

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk...20developer.do

[voodooflux]

And we were a professional games house!

Where was that Churchill?