Asia/Korea Polycount Meetup?
*update* 6/25/2012
A time has been decided..
Date: Saturday, July 14th
Time: to be decided soon
Location: Busan, South Korea
We'll meet at an easy location near the KTX and take a taxi together or something...
*end update*
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Anyone from the Asian region specifically South Korea, want to do a Polycount meetup?
Tremulant and myself are currently in South Korea and I know there are others here... Who wants to meetup in July around Busan area?
A time has been decided..
Date: Saturday, July 14th
Time: to be decided soon
Location: Busan, South Korea
We'll meet at an easy location near the KTX and take a taxi together or something...
*end update*
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Anyone from the Asian region specifically South Korea, want to do a Polycount meetup?
Tremulant and myself are currently in South Korea and I know there are others here... Who wants to meetup in July around Busan area?
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I think there are a few Koreans on PC, but not sure if they see this thread!
where are u in Korea?
Would love to go to GDC in Shanghai just can't afford it right now!
Let us know how it is.
I don't know how many can come though so we'll just wait and see who replies and choose a neutral location from there.
I think Hawken is in Japan.
I want to give enough time so if people want/can come they will be able to schedule it.
It may just end up being a handful of us but still a cool idea I figure!
An excuse to talk shop and compare notes with soju and food!
Yeah, some korean bbq would be awesome!
No exact location decided yet... keep the ideas coming.
I kid, but not really
^_^
Flying out tomorrow, starting to get nervous.
Anyway, how did you guys end up in Korea and what are you doing there? working for a big/small studio? freelance?
so this plan is still ongoing? I live in Seoul as well. come here!
I'll be moving to Gimpo on the next few days papa, you should show me around, all those secret best places to eat in Seoul that only Koreans know about ;P
I'm an English teacher because it was better pay/opportunity out of college where I could continue to work on portfolio and do some mods/indie games.
Plus I always thought working in another country and getting some culture in you would always make you more valuable as an artist. In my opinion of course...
I'll be heading back to the states in September and looking for a job then. Anyone got any leads hit me up
Are any of you actually working in games here in Korea? I know some are freelance while they teach.
*edit* Good luck on getting to Korea Andreas! It is a major wow factor at first! Relish it.
And my Sun quit games almost 2 year ago. Her last studio was Reloaded ..
let's make it up
I've been working contract for the same company I worked at onsite in the States. It's a pretty large educational games and media company. I wear a lot of different hats though since our art department is relatively smaller. Haven't got to work on a games project in a while, been doing mostly pre-rendered stuff. I do 40 hrs at Public schools teaching English, and 32 hrs freelance for US a week:) Gotta pay down those loans somehow right?
Looking forward to this meetup guys, Had no idea how many people were actually here.
I wouldn't care to meet in Seoul. I'm in Busan, where the weather is so breeezy, and we could all have beers by the ocean, but Seoul has it's perks too. Mainly the choice in food
I'm still here
Probably won't be able to make it to Korea though
and a friendly bump to see if there is any more interest.
I drew names from a cup for locations between Seoul, Daegu, and Busan...
Busan won the location!
Date: Saturday, July 14th
Time: to be decided soon
Location: Busan, South Korea
We'll meet at an easy location near the KTX and take a taxi together or something...
Please post here or send me a PM if you are coming or thinking of coming.
It might be a small group so don't go and spend lots of $$$ for travel if you can't afford it.
Ah I won't be able to make it then, I'm much closer to Seoul.
What do you guys do if a game you want on Steam isn't available in Korea? I'm trying to get the FTP game Spiral Knights, but apparently it's not available here... is there a way around that?
Another reason I love Steam - it's not too difficult to circumvent
Digital River (used be EA's Origin) banned my credit card for good using it from a blacklisted country (China). Now I have to wait till I'm back in Europe - gee thanks.
(little irony here: VPNs are what enable Chinese game studios to make Facebook games in a country where Facebook is blocked)
As added benefit VPN lets you also access other country restricted websites easily. E.g. buy steam games which are available in the US only.
I use astrill.com which is super easy to set up and has endpoints in many countries (i.e. you can fake to be from Germany, UK, US, etc). It's also very fast. downside: it costs money. There are free services too, but I'm not sure how credible they are and how safe any account info is that you send over it.
Hopefully I've spurred some interest in this area of Asian Polycount meetups... perhaps next year someone else can carry the torch and do something bigger/better.
I'm not able to make it then as well
come to Seoul come on lol
yeah, I have never been to Busan, so I'll go to Busan someday, not this time
Mucho thanks for the astrill info I signed up this morning.. I buy all my music off amazon and since Im in asia so much it wont bloody let me buy
For computers: I buy pre-assembled from a big vendor like Dell or Apple. I can return it. There's a warranty and I know what I get. Bought a Dell XPS here - runs like a champ! No problems with Apple stuff either. Same quality.
Or online (for parts): newegg.com.cn - like the US version. Haven't tried it though but it looks good.
I try to avoid local Chinese retailers (e.g. Yolo, Suning) - I've seen the sales people do dodgy things with the machines they have there.
Buying consoles is similar - gotta haggle. Got your choice of hacked (PS3, 360, Vita, Wii) or legit Japanese / Korean / Hong Kong. Hacked consoles are for some reason cheaper than legit ones. Games you buy pirated though. Trying to get legit games seems rather impossible here. Haven't seen a single game here that wasn't stolen.
One store offered me to add a 320gb hdd with pirated games for 70 euros if I buy a Wii.... Actually even on the PC getting legit games is difficult - gotta have a western credit card. Many Chinese ones do not work for online purchases from US stores (e.g. Steam).
If you're okay with pirating everything, get a hacked console. (other reason why hacked consoles are popular: They often have inofficial simplified Chinese translations for onscreen menues since no big manufacturer cares to do that. At best it's traditional Chinese for HK and Taiwan but many folks here cannot read this). Hacked consoles are great if you have no friends, or they all live in the wrong timezone or you just prefer to play alone. For MP you have to get a legit system to use XBox live or similar.
I only ever bought a Wii here though - hacked - because my GF's parents don't speak English. So they wanted something with simplified Chinese onscreen menus.
Alternative: You leave the wild east behind you and go to Hong Kong. Legit systems, legit games, almost no haggling - but also cracked and pirated if you want that. Plus the prices there are quite good!
Last alternative: I buy stuff in Europe on the annual trip home and get the tax back via Global-Refund.
How's Korea for hardware shopping? Is it an alternative for going to HK for legit stuff? I know they have tax-back too if you're not residing in Korea, which is neat.
Yeah that's what I'm wondering :P But thanks for the info, I do plan to do a year in China too. I can get my tax back if I'm not a permanent resident? I should look into that.
Any Korean dudes got some advice for me? I gots itchy thumbs!