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#21

Phoenix, Arizona. Home of Rainbow Studios who have made “Motocross Madness”, published by Microsoft years ago (don’t know what they’re doing these days). Funny, I picked up one of their animators years ago on the freeway - his car was broken down. And just two days ago I ran into one of their developers, wearing a t-shirt that said “game developer.” He was in Fry’s Electronics buying a new Gigabyte motherboard.

I think Phoenix (or maybe Scottsdale, a city litterally adjacent to Phoenix) is also home of the team who did the MMO “Horizons”. As far as I know, there’s no Java game development though.

#22

Cape Town, South Africa (starting to feel a bit lonely… I was hoping there might be someone else from Africa on this board).

To my knowledge, there aren’t really any game dev companies in South Africa… there are a few kids who play around with some stuff in their sparetime, and maybe a few friends who tried to make a game when they were in high school, but honestly, that’s about it. Most people here with any “m4d d3v skillz” are desperately trying to get out of here, and into a first world country.

The only things we really have are like EA South Africa, or other local branches of the big companies. They don’t really do anything except marketing their products though.

#23

I really like this poll, I think it’s very interesting look at this forum and the world view of Java games in general.
Please, more people vote so we can get a more complete distribution number.
There are >4000 people registered on this board!

#24

I’m from province of Quebec in Canada and I live in Montreal.

#25

Arizona as well :slight_smile:

#26

Dublin, Ireland.
Currently unemployed & looking for work :frowning:

Nothing much going on in dublin games wise. Seems to be a renewed interest in J2Me stuff for mobiles over the last while though. And google just opened up here. Maybe i’ll zip off my CV to them today :slight_smile:

D.

#27

south of france (google for Pont du Gard, I live on the other side of the mountains).

Anyody been there ? (France is the world’s most visited country, and that roman bridge has 2 million visitors / years )

Lilian

#28

Wow, so many of you hosers are from Europe, eh?

(Makes me think that Sun’s GTG should try to participate in more of the European conferences instead of making you guys fly to the US.)

#29

Germany, near Stuttgart. 2 weeks ago I’ve been to Peru for one month (good beer over there, too)

#30

Somewhere in Oxford - although I wish I lived in Krabi, Thailand

#31

Although I’m American, I found myself using “bloody” the other day on the forums :wink: You guys are growing on me

#32

[quote]Somewhere in Oxford - although I wish I lived in Krabi, Thailand
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…beautiful Krabi … :slight_smile:

#33

London, UK. I’ve no idea if any pro game dev happens down here (out side the J2ME space), but the igda events are always nice & fun, so I guess plent of none-java game dev is going on.

#34

Washington D.C. a half a mile from the White House.

Bethesda Software (http://www.bethsoft.com/) is in Rockville Maryland 30 minutes from downtown DC, but that’s the only game company I know of around here. If you want to do graphics in Java you’ll probaby be working on a military simulation - which is what I’m doing now.

#35

Deutschland ;D Aber bald ich wille habe Weltherrschaft! :smiley:

#36

Berlin, Germany - you know - the city that was split half a decade - You’ll find it in any history book ;D If you want to know why - ask VaireMestUpPingwin (no offense mented - actually I think you shouldn’t do jokes about it)
I don’t know what kind of companies are around here, I’m going still to school :slight_smile: And then I’ll go to university - so lots of time to inform me of such things :slight_smile:

#37

[quote]Deutschland ;D Aber bald ich wille habe Weltherrschaft! :smiley:
[/quote]
Liar.

(Your german is pretty bad.)

#38

Austria. :slight_smile:

#39

germany

#40

Sevilla, Spain, now in our lovely summer with >43ºCelsius :stuck_out_tongue:

The Gaming industry here is barely represented by Pyros, the makers of Commandos, we had Rebel Act, makers of the masterpiece Severance:Blade of Darkness, but they broke, there is some more movement atm, I’ll stay tuned ;). On the java scene… well, we have some Sun presence here (the director of Sun Microsystems Iberica gave a very interesting speech for the students some month ago) and i hope i’ll find some more java activity before i finish my computer sciences degree, i’d love to work on java-graphics/gaming then (or can something be done to work for Sun?). But it seems that .net is eating us all at the etsii :-, i’ll stay on java, something in .net gives me the creeps.

There really should be a game convention here, or maybe a serie of speeches about the java gaming posibilities on the campus party.