{"id":1161,"date":"2014-10-16T21:31:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2014-10-16T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T21:33:20","slug":"steven-messinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/2014\/10\/16\/steven-messinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Messinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of going for a CEO or upper management at a game company, I search for someone who has come from a similar background as me and has a position that I think is achievable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steven Messinger graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in computer science and a specialization in digital media and arts.<\/li>\n<li>He was an intern at Electronic Arts on the PC game Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II where we worked as a gameplay engineer.<\/li>\n<li>After graduation he worked a short time as a tools programmer for Image Space Inc on the PC racing game Rfactor.<\/li>\n<li>Next Steven landed a job at Rockstar Games San Diego where he worked on Midnight Club: Los Angeles as programmer, Red Dead Redemption as an Ambient Designer (World Designer) and GTA V as a Senior Scripter (designer that codes).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over the Summer of 2013, I interned at Electronic Arts on The Sims 4 as a UI gameplay engineer and my dream company to work for is Rockstar Games as a Gameplay Scripter (designer that codes) and move up to a Senior\/Lead Scripter and possibly further up. So seeing that someone in a similar position as I am was able to do what I want is very encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>Steven wrote this nice article about How to Break in as a Game Programmer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamecareerguide.com\/features\/301\/how_to_break_in_as_a_game_programmer.php?page=3\">Read Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/developer\/sheet\/view\/developerId,239293\/\">Mobygame Profile<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=76222573&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=Tojr&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=2758828571413494046099&amp;srchindex=1&amp;srchtotal=29&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_name&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2758828571413494046099%2CVSRPtargetId%3A76222573%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary\">LinkedIn Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of going for a CEO or upper management at a game company, I search for someone who has come from a similar background as me and has a position that I think is achievable. Steven Messinger graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in computer science and a specialization in digital media and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/2014\/10\/16\/steven-messinger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steven Messinger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}