New Start In Reykjavik @ CCP

Flava-Fly

Nice to counter balance a bunch of recent negative work related threads, including my own, to say I landed a position at CCP games Iceland. It felt like a crazy long shot as its nothing short of a dream job for me but I got all signed up yesterday for the move over seas next month!

Realtime Worlds was a 10min walk from my flat so adjustment was minimal, now I'm moving to Reykjavik!

Any CCP guys here on PC? I'm looking for some insider tips on relocating across the water and to pre arrange some pints when I get there!

JohnnyRaptor

dude, congrats! glad to hear rtw dudes landing on their feet!

Ben Apuna

That's awesome! I'm glad to hear you got picked up so quickly, CCP looks cool too. Best of luck with your move.

Autocon

glad to hear you bounced back so quickly. congratz

Xoliul

Cool, great news! I guess you are an Eve player ?

Wahlgren

Big congrats man. CCP would be a wicked place to be at. My girlfriend loves Iceland and would murder me if I would have turned it down

Let's just hope their (Icelands) economy picks up

samgriffiths

Hey man, I'm in dundee too, realtime worlds is just across the street from me.

first year at abertay though >.>, always wanted to move to iceland.. maybe I'll see you there in like 5 years or something :P

how long u plan on staying?

Justin Meisse

Awesome, are you working on World of Darkness?

Bigjohn

Flava-Fly wrote: »

Nice to counter balance a bunch of recent negative work related threads, including my own, to say I landed a position at CCP games Iceland. It felt like a crazy long shot as its nothing short of a dream job for me but I got all signed up yesterday for the move over seas next month!

Realtime Worlds was a 10min walk from my flat so adjustment was minimal, now I'm moving to Reykjavik!

Any CCP guys here on PC? I'm looking for some insider tips on relocating across the water and to pre arrange some pints when I get there!

Congrats man. I know what you mean about it being a dream job. I always look at their job page too and start dreaming Maybe one day...

Thegodzero

Congrats! ^that Or Dust514?

Del

~ YES!!! Glad to hear you got all sorted. Always nice to hear when things go right. Iceland is a beautiful place. Poop lives there and worked at CCP i believe.

BEN GET IN HERE NAO!

Flava-Fly

Thanks for the kind words dudes! Quite a few of the Realtime guys are sorted out now, the industry has been really attentive to try and absorb the job losses. From what I hear a lot went to Jagex & Blitz.

Not 100% sure what project I will be on but it looks like CCP is going in some awesome directions cant wait to be part of it! The Dust 514 trailer looks insane!

@Sam - Best of luck to you m8 at Abertay but listen to the guys here on PC, they will give you the real scoop on how to work in games.

Ruz

I was asked by CCP to apply for that but could n't see myself dealing with 6 months of darkness:)
good luck and congrats though. Its always cool to make a new start

poopinmymouth

Ruz wrote: »

I was asked by CCP to apply for that but could n't see myself dealing with 6 months of darkness:)
good luck and congrats though. Its always cool to make a new start

It's not 6 months of darkness. One day a year has only 2 hours of darkness, and one day a year only 2 hours of light, and it slowly fades between those. There is only 1/4 of the year where you get less than 8 hours of daylight. I didn't miss it, and the super long summer days make up for it. Being able to go out at midnight in the sunlight is awesome.

I don't work at CCP anymore Flava-fly but my husband does and I'm at most of the gatherings. I go to the IGI meetups too (our local version of IGDA), so I'm sure I'll see you around.

samgriffiths

Flava-Fly wrote: »

Thanks for the kind words dudes! Quite a few of the Realtime guys are sorted out now, the industry has been really attentive to try and absorb the job losses. From what I hear a lot went to Jagex & Blitz.

Not 100% sure what project I will be on but it looks like CCP is going in some awesome directions cant wait to be part of it! The Dust 514 trailer looks insane!

@Sam - Best of luck to you m8 at Abertay but listen to the guys here on PC, they will give you the real scoop on how to work in games.

It's cool breeze i been rolling the polycount train for 3 years.

:poly136:

Flava-Fly

I have to say more than the darkness it was the constant light that scared me a little, it will take a while to adjust to that sleeping pattern. Thanks for expanding on that myth for me poop. Glad you still get to the gatherings I look forward to meeting sometime!

ebagg

Glad to see you landed on your feet in a new gig quickly! Much congrats!

Ruz

yeah i was only half joking anyway poop.It must freak out the animals though, sort of stary eyed cats and dogs:)

X-Convict

Congrats! I hear good things about CCP.

imyj

Congrats on the new job Flava-Fly! I saw Rob (programmer) from RTW got a job there too! It's quite the move but I'm sure it's worth it! I just finished up at Abertay myself and just took a job in England so I'm moving too, but not as fancy or far as Iceland!

chrisradsby

Good luck man! It's scary moving overseas, well I made it to UK from Sweden alright xD

vofff

I hope that volcano not getting angry again.