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I have got a really nice and precise description that is crisp and to the point.I really liked it. It was posted by Ravi on : http://thedesimag.com/2011/04/25/the-difference-between-a-career-and-a-job/ There are things that your boss and your human resource director will probably never tell you. One of them is the fundamental truth that a job is not a career. Your job is an integral part of your career but it differs in many ways from your career. Understanding the difference is perhaps one of the most important steps you can take in your career. Most organizations are geared towards maximizing the productivity of its employees, and by definition, the focus is on people to do their jobs better. Traditional career paths entailed succeeding at a series of jobs and climbing the ladder towards success. That ladder has increasingly become curved and convoluted. Therefore, it is very important that we manage our careers as a business; we need to recognize that if we don’t, we ar...

I found this article at: http://makeitbigingames.com/2007/09/how-to-pitch-your-game/ by Dallman .    This is a superb article on how to approach a publisher for ur game concept.have a look! It was one year ago that GarageGames introduced the Affiliated Developer program . In that year as a producer I’ve reviewed countless video game pitches from good to awful. I am marking the one year occasion by guest authoring Jeff’s blog to offer broad tips that will help independent game developers successfully pitch themselves or their game to any publisher without boring the publisher or losing their interest. Batter up! Insider tip: “Zzzz” is not the sound of approval First, a quick reminder on what our own AD program is: “We are working with a few great developers to make games that are exclusive to GarageGames and that we help bring to market. We call this our Affiliated Developer partnership program.” - Jeff Tunnell in Sept 2006, coining the Affiliated Developer program ...

This is one good article I read on Gamasutra (by Mark DeLoura ) which describes the changing trends in Game engine usage and acceptability.It presents few eye openers. The Game Engines Certainly there are quite a number of game engines one can license for a game. The ones that are relevant to any particular game vary based on targeted platforms and genre, as well as timeline and budget. For the purpose of this survey I ( Mark DeLoura ) focused on these commercial engines, primarily in the “core” market: Crytek’s CryENGINE Digital Extremes’ Evolution Engine Emergent Game Technologies’ Gamebryo Epic Games’ Unreal Engine Garage Games’ Torque Id Software’s idTech Terminal Reality’s Infernal Engine Trinigy’s Vision Unity Technologies’ Unity Valve Corporation’s Source Engine Vicious Cycle Software’s Vicious Engine There are many more engines available, including many open source engines. Some other notable engines not focused on...