Tim Schaffer's application to Lucasarts -

Seaseme · Sep 2009

*edit* Tim Schafer

I saw this on reddit but figured more than a few of the people here would appreciate it:

http://www.doublefine.com/site/twenty_years_only_a_few_tears/

Very funny read about him trying to break into the game industry in 1989. (I was 2!).

Anyone else have some good stories to tell?

Luxury · Sep 2009

No good stories, but I've kept every rejection letter I've ever received. Just so one day I can rub it in all their faces.

Axios · Sep 2009

I only have rejection emails... They're far less dramatic.

crazyfingers · Sep 2009

Luxury wrote: »

No good stories, but I've kept every rejection letter I've ever received. Just so one day I can rub it in all their faces.

There was actually a report recently about how the greatest creative minds are motivated by revenge.

Oh, and thanks for the post, Tim Schafer made some of my favorite games

. They don't tell stories like they used to.

ZacD · Sep 2009

I haven't got any emails back :poly122: Apparently I'm so horrible they don't want to send me a generic premade rejection email.

Seaseme · Sep 2009

It usually takes some time ZacD - I just got one from EA Dice, where I applied to like 8 months ago. I got that on uh.. Friday. haha.

ZacD · Sep 2009

I was being dramatic, I was suppose to have lunch with a guy that was starting a video/music studio downtown but that fell through, that reminds me I should hit him back up... even though I'm terrible at vfx work, maybe I could do some fancy 3D text or something...

anyway, its not like KS has a large CG/video game industry and I'm still in college.

Seaseme · Sep 2009

i was just playing

your post was funny.

Lamont · Sep 2009

Luxury wrote: »

No good stories, but I've kept every rejection letter I've ever received. Just so one day I can rub it in all their faces.

I used to have the rejection letter from Nintendo from when I was like 8 (I sent in a game idea). But it got messed up over the years.

vcool · Sep 2009

Haha, his letter is pure winsauce.

skylebones · Sep 2009

HAHA! I love his letter about his dream job. After that how could they not hire him.

I don't keep my rejection letters. But I do keep the guidelines for all the art test I've been taking. Most of them are perfectly reasonable and normal, but some of them are pure insanity.

danshewan · Sep 2009

As a teen, trying to break into the comics industry, I sent in a story outline to Marvel comics. Needless to say, it was my first rejection letter - but it did have Spiderman crawling over the address field on the envelope.

Love Schaffer's attitude. What a guy.

seforin · Sep 2009

man one day its my dream to be in that studio. I hope to be around someone as awesome and as creative who still makes fun games in this industry.

We owe alot of creativity value to someone such as this in our field!

hawken · Sep 2009

I once got rejected for a job. fast forward 4 years or so and the guy who interviewed me is applying for a job where I work.

Although thats not as good a story as when I worked in London and my A.D. got head hunted for his own job!!

lefix · Sep 2009

actually got invited to an interview once, but i didn't read it until weeks later because the email went into my spam folder for some reason. by then, i already had gotten a slightly unfriendly second email asking why i wasn't replying. i never replied

00Zero · Sep 2009

the doodles on one of those scans looks similar to the psychonauts guy. weird eh?

Tim Schaffer's application to Lucasarts -

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