Back when I worked for a video game company, all of their music was done by
a single person except when they wanted a 'big name'. Of course, voice
acting is a different ball game.

Graphics, on the other hand, seem to take a lot more warm bodies. There
were probably two to three times as many artists at the video game company
than there were programmers.

so.. at said employer.. there were about 10 programmers, 1 musician, 25-30
graphic artists, 10 level builders, 20 in tech support... and 20 or so
combined in administrative assistants, management, documentation, marketing,
sales, finance, etc.

and I'm not sure whether to ask if the name is a joke or not, considering
the subject.. ;-) if it's not.. I am sure you get crap about it a lot...
but it's still cool. Abba is one of my favourite bands. ;-) I got teased
a lot for being from the wild wild west.. name is really james west.. but
that's also why I don't go by james :-D
>From: Bjorn Andersson <Bjorn.Andersson--tribon.com>
>Reply-To: alternatereality-From-barrick75-hotmail.com--alternaterealityarchive.com
>>Subject: RE: Usenet of the day &quot;A funny AR story&quot;
>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:22:28 +0100
>
>
>Not mentioning sound wizards...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:Kyle West [barrick75--hotmail.com]
> > Sent:Monday, March 03, 2003 7:20 AM
> > > > Subject:Re: Usenet of the day &quot;A funny AR story&quot;
> >
> > From my experience.. programming muscle is usually not the problem.
> > Artistic talent is usually the hang-up. Any graphic artists out there?
> > ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: <ar--marktaw.mailshell.com>
> > >Reply-To: alternatereality-From-barrick75-hotmail.com--alternaterealityarchive.com
> > >> > >Subject: Re: Usenet of the day &quot;A funny AR story&quot;
> > >Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 22:09:37 -0800
> > >
> > >Reminds me of what my girlfriend used to say about me & Alternate
> > >Reality... she was trying to have me saved back when I discovered the
> > >emulator version I could play without dusting off my Atari.
> > >
> > >You know, with all this programming muscle we have here, we could
>almost
> > >start our own video game company. Maybe we couldn't turn out Metal
>Gear,
> > >but we could certainly make an AR clone. I bet if we could do it in
> > Flash,
> > >Perl & MySQL and make it multi-player it would be a big hit.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Mark
> > >
> > >From Gregory Lattanzio <ag6514--wayne.edu> on 2 Mar 2003:
> > >
> > > > I found this old "computer folklore" post; it is about the dangers
>of
> > > > playing Alternate Reality. Damn, try not to fall out of your chair.
> > > > ;-)
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=scotty-2802951526410001a%4047.23.33.
> > 162
> > > > &output=gplain
> > >
> > >
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