IGN talks game industry salaries

[CheapyD]

Via Slashdot (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/20/1524218&from=rss)

Gaming Green
What kind of money can you make in the gaming industry?
by Ralph Edwards (http://games.ign.com/email.html)

October 18, 2005- If you were to grab any random teenager from one of the midnight launch lines for the latest Halo, Grand Theft Auto or Madden release and were to ask them how much it'd take to pay them to make games, there's a good chance that you'd find more than a few who would tell you that it's their dream to get into development and that they'd do it for free.

http://games.ign.com/articles/659/659458p1.html

[chickenhawk]

Interesting article. I often wondered about that. I have zero talent in techy stuff so most of that is out of the question for me. Hmmm...maybe a producer. I can manage schedules and pull together talent. :D

[javeryh]

There was also an article somewhere about gaming hotspots. NY made the list but it was at the bottom. I need to send a resume to Take-Two or Rockstar....

[PittsburghAfterDark]

I'm surprised at how little animators make. I had dinner with a Disney animator a couple of years ago at Animal Kingdom (GF at the time was a huge Disney nut and had an online friendship with him.) and when Dreamworks started film animators for 2-D were making $200k+. I can't imagine the guys at Pixar are making less than their hand drawn counterparts.

With that being said the industry can't be getting the best animators in the country. Not that you need to be the best to make an FPS, driving game etc. I think that if the platformer or RPG categories were much bigger than they are behind sports, FPS and driving games the salaries would be exponentially higher. However with so much being mo-capped as opposed to hand drawn I guess it's really not as surprising now that I think about it.

[Graystone]

That is very good article. I remember trying to teach myself python. For those who don't know that is a programing language easier then basic and I got no where with it. Programmer are extremely smart.
I could send a resume out to to gaming companies. something along the lines like this

Hi I like games and I have decent self educated computer knowledge hire me? and please pay me a lot for it.

[rabbitt]

Thanks for the article. Something to think about in the near future.