A STRONGER SYSTEM

A STRONGER SYSTEM!

( A PLEA FOR HELP FROM THE DESK OF HULKGAMECRIT)

HULK NOTICED SOMETHING A LITTLE STRANGE THAT HULK WAS HOPING TO FIND A PROPER ANSWER FOR BY NOW BUT HASN'T!

WHEN HULK'S FOLLOWSHIP GREW ALITTLE WHILE AGO... HULK STARTED A PODCAST! THE PODCAST WAS STARTED FOR THE FOLLOWERS! EACH WEEK HULK WOULD BRING IN DIFFERENT GUESTS TO TALK ABOUT GAMING NEWS AND WHERE THEY FIT INSIDE THIS CRAZY INDUSTRY OF OURS!

TWO OF HULK'S GUESTS ( CHIMMELY AND DOUBLEANNA) REVELEAED SOMETHING HULK FOUND TO BE FASCINATING! THEIR REPECTIVE AREAS ARE BOTH HEAVY INTO TWITTER AND TRY TO COMMUNICATE OFTEN ABOUT WHAT EVERYONE IS UP TO! CHIMMELY'S AREA EVEN SUPPORTS INDIE DEVS! HULK WAS EVEN GIVEN A FEW WORDS OF WISDOM TO BOOT! AFTER THAT PODCAST HULK BEGAN SEARCHING TO SEE IF ANYTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS IN BALTIMORE!

WITH THE INSANE AMOUNT OF STUDIOS INVOLVED WITH THE GAME INDUSTRY YOU'D THINK A SYSTEM WOULD ALREADY EXIST!....RIGHT?

WRONG!

FOR ONE THING.... HARDLY ANY DEVELOPERS ( OF THE THOUSANDS ON TWITTER) ARE ACTUALLY FROM BALTIMORE! OR ANNOUNCE IT FOR THAT MATTER!) ANOTHER UNSIGHTLY PROBLEM IS THAT UNLESS YOUR ALREADY A GAME DEVELOPER AND"IN THE KNOW ", THEN YOUR LIKELY NEVER GOING TO HEAR ABOUT AN EVENT WHERE THEY ARE ALL GETTING TOGETHER TO DO SOMETHING!

STUDENTS IN PARTICULAR FINDS THIS THE MOST FRUSTRATING! HULK CAN THINK OF AT LEAST 15 STUDENTS RIGHT NOW THAT CAN'T FIND WORK, HAVE NO ONE ( EXCEPT HULK) TO NETWORK WITH, AND NEVER HEAR A THING FROM A GAME STUDIO POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE AS TO WHY THEY DIDN'T GET AN INTERVIEW OR INTERNSHIP AT THEIR LOCAL GAME STUDIOS!

SO THESE STUDENTS BEGIN QUESTIONING EVERYTHING THEY 'VE DONE UP TO THIS POINT AND WONDERING WHAT IT IS THEY DID WRONG TO BEGIN WITH!

ALL BECAUSE THEIR WAS NO COMMUNICATION AND THEY HAVE NO ONE INSIDE THE INDUSTRY TO SPEAK WITH! HULK THINKS THIS NEEDS TO STOP RIGHT NOW! AT THE VERY LEAST WE CAN ADOPT A POLICY OF LETTING SOMEONE KNOW " YES" OR "NO" WHEN THEY SEND IN AN APPLICATION! ( EXTRA HULK POINTS IF YOU POINT OUT WHAT YOU LIKED OR DIDN'T LIKE).

SOME OF YOU AT THIS POINT MIGHT BE SAYING " JUST GO WITH THE IGDA".... NORMALLY HULK WOULD FULLY AGREE! HOWEVER THE IGDA MIGHT BE IN A STRANGE PLACE RIGHT NOW.. HULK NOT ENTIRELY SURE! BESIDE THE POINT UNLESS THE IGDA IS SOMEHOW ABLE TO HIRE THESE STUDENTS THEN HULK IS NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHAT THEY CAN DO TO HELP!

THIS PROBLEM IS MORE IN THE HANDS OF THE STUDIOS ANYWAY! AND MAYBE ALSO ALITTLE BLAME IN THE LOCAL COLLEGES AS WELL! HULK THINKS WE NEED SOME KIND OF SYSTEM!

AT THE VERY LEAST A WEBSITE GOING OVER WHAT GAME DEVS IN THE AREA MIGHT BE DOING ON A MONTHLY BASIS, WHAT THE NEXT IGDA MEETING WILL BE GOING OVER NEXT ( AND MAKING SURE NOT TO HAVE THE FIRST MEETING IN MONTHS BE CANCELLED), AND POSSIBLY SOME KIND OF MENTOR-SHIP PROGRAM! HULK IS NOT ASKING FOR ANYTHING TO FANCY! JUST A FEW KIND DEVELOPERS ANSWERING QUESTIONS THAT OUR COLLEGE PROGRAMS MISSED! STUFF THAT WE NEED TO KNOW IN ORDER TO GET HIRED!

IF ANY GAME DEVELOPERS ARE WILLING TO TALK WITH HULK MORE ON THIS ( A JOB WOULD BE BETTER) THEN HULK CAN BE CONTACTED RIGHT HERE!