Just want to say as a fellow on again, off again lurker (since the planetquake days): Thanks for your contributions, and also for your candor on your personal experience. Echoing some of poopipe's sentiments; if your experience is taken as a model between success and failure...well then the lot of us are doomed!
In retrospect, there were several factors contributing to my struggle to establish myself in the gaming industry. I'd attribute it to a 60/40 split, with 60% of the responsibility lying with me and the remaining 40% on the gaming companies I had the "privilege" to work with. For those familiar with the Polycount community,…