Things You Were Too Afraid to Ask: John 'Nifty' Molloy


(WhiteAden) #21

I think this deserves a seperate interview/section/blog entry/topic…

your thoughts about the degrees in game-related areas these days (bachelor or master, or whatever…)

I’m currently in studying Art, hoping to get into Media Art & Digital Technology (which has animation, programming & 3D stuff (like 3DsMAX etc.) in it)… and I wonder what your ideas about these degrees, courses etc. are… =)


(Exedore) #22

To me, whether to go to Uni in Europe isn’t even really a decision, it’s just so cheap! In the US it’s really dependent on the discipline you’re going for, and you’ve got to expect to be repaying student loans for years to come.

But they do teach you when and where to tighten up the graphics.


(Anti) #23

Ahhh Crispy, the Bard of Splash Damage! His epic posts of woe keep the little Tapirs entertained around the camp fire at night :slight_smile:


(Pytox) #24

Welcome here!

5th element is cool movie :smiley:


(tippo) #25

RE: Secret of Mana

Did you ever let ‘little nifty’ ride on the dragon or did you always have to hog the controls?

He looks funny:stroggtapir:

Him not as much:stroggbanana:


(brbrbr) #26

oh, he from Ireland !!
great country :slight_smile:
or at least - great people(i meet some Irish people in Moscow from time to time). :slight_smile:
and one of few “professional game developers”(by-education).
thats quite uncommon for gamedev.
and he work with P Molieneaux(i supect this great experience. as well as hard job)team.
yeah, every single creature, made by yourself - building, ship, machine, too, software product and especially children’s - make you feeling unexplainable GOOD :slight_smile:
and yep, books and freaky addictive, i can hungry eat about 900 pages from semi-random human activity-realated, before i realized, what i did.
as well as dangerous.
Intellect bring responsibility as well as power.
anyone should keep this in mind.

p.s.
i forget to add [quoted] input for my feedback about interview.
but anyone can do it manually. “step-by-step”,
i guess thats mean, in starting recovering from square-bracket-addiction.
thanks to new languages, to which im switching/studying now(particularly Japan, Smalltalk and Erlang).

p.p.s.
its always nice to know another memeber of SD team.
keep going, guys.
fingercrossing for Brink