Everyone knows this already because I’ve been babbling about nothing else for quite some time, but it’s worthwhile knocking it on the blog too innit?

I have a new job!

And what a job! I’m soon to be a web developer at one of my favourite games companies in the world ever!

Booyah! I’m working for the company who made bloody Final bloody Fantasy bloody VII!

Strictly speaking it’s the offices of Eidos Interactive, but they were bought out by the macdaddys a year or two ago and they are now known as Square Enix Europe, which is nice.

The whole procession was quite a testing time as it usually is. The interview went very well though the life sized statue of Kane & Lynch having a fight scared the crap outta me. It was then a 3 and a half week wait for the answer. I’ll remember the day I got the offer for the rest of my life. This is mainly because the lovely HR lady at Square led me a merry dance with a series of unintentionally cryptic emails.

I was sitting around, ambling through an uninteresting lunch when the first email came in.

No subject heading and nothing in it

This baffled me. Is this it? Is this a yes? Is this a no? What is this? WHAT’S GOING ON!!?!??!

5 minutes later the next one comes in.

Heading saying “Good News” and again, nothing in it

Now this is encouraging, but again totally mystifying. Did it go to the wrong person? What’s good? HELP ME! This time an agonising 20 minutes pass. I am climbing the walls, unable to tell anyone about the situation I’m in. So I distracted myself by chucking a stress ball around the office and furiously pacing about the place like a mad thing.

Then the final email comes in.

Hi Jason!
Sorry not sure what I did BUT we want to make you an offer
Are you still interested?
I’m out on a course but will try catch my emails
Lesley

The best bit of that email is “Are you still interested?”. I was overjoyed. A bit like this

This was a company whose games had played a sizeable part in defining who I am today. My love for games was only reinforced by such triumphs as Final Fantasy VII. Be it Square or Eidos, they have released so many games that I have loved to bits over the years.

When I was a growing up I’d always harboured desires of working in the games industry and now I am. It really is a dream job. It’s a web development job, so I’m not making games, but I don’t really want to. Certainly not coding them anyway. It doesn’t feel quite real at the moment.

I’ve finished work with Tripleplay now and it’s a shame to go, but I feel the time was right. I’d been there for nearly 4 years and an opportunity like this just feels right, the next big step. I learned loads at Tripleplay and it pretty much got me the job so I’ll look back on the time fondly.

I felt I had to leave something behind to remember me by. All software development teams use a thing called source control. Source control is a repository of code which controls versioning and such, it’s basically an organised back up of code. So I added an image to the product I was in charge of with this source control comment

Author: jason
Date: 2010-03-19 17:19:04 +0000 (Fri, 19 Mar 2010)
New Revision: 27383

Added:
   giftfromjason.jpg
Log:
For what is a man what has he got, If not himself then he has not, To say the things he truly feels, And not the words of one who kneels, The record shows I took the blows, And did it mmmmmmyyyyyy wwwwwwaaaaaayyyyyy. See ya! J

What is giftfromjason.jpg? well it’s the best picture on the interweb of course

Isn’t it brill?

So here we are. I have a fortnight off now to mooch about, clean the house, play some games and get some out of work work done. Then I’ll be off to Cosmo Canyon to begin my plan to rule the universe.

I’ve done an artists impression of how I’ll get to work. Excited!

Are the sunglasses a bit much? Didn’t think so.

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