Career Mash

     Okay, so, we had to go to careermash.ca and find a career that best suits us and interests us. I'm not too fond of the technological range of jobs but ta-da, I have successfully found myself a career that I think is quite interesting . I chose a game designer. I chose this career because I'm indecisive and couldn't really decide which one to pick. I also chose it because I'm really interested in art and I know that game design would require art skills.

     A game designer must be able to create a game that will capture a player's attention. Genres of games vary from a rated G family game to an M for matured first person shooting game. A lot of thought has to be put into creating a game such as the plot, the characters, the settings, the scoring levels, etc. Even through recession, this area of industry has stayed strong despite the negativity throughout the economy.

 There are certain requirements a game designer must have to be favourable. A game designer needs to be accepting and open to new ideas and critism, needs to have artistic skills, and can cope and work well under pressure, just to name a few.

     There are many paths one could choose to take if they are interested in becoming a game designer. Here are specific educational requirements: You would need your mathematics to be calculus level but you could also take analytic geometry. You must take classes on 3-D, 2-D, and even 4-D animating. You'd need to know computer programming languages such as C++. Other requirements in education include storyboarding and computer simulation.

     Shigeru Miyamoto is a famous game designer who is best known for creating the game 'Donkey Kong'. When the game company, Nintendo, began to branch out, he assisted in designing the company's very first original coin using Arcade game called Sheriff. He had plenty of ideas and concepts but he was most interested in his idea about a love triangle that included an ape. The ape was influenced by King Kong (1933). And thus, eventually, Donkey Kong was born.

Re: Texting in Social Situations

1. What are your thoughts on texting in social situations.

     I suppose it depends on the situation. If there is an emergency, then yes, texting is fine during a social situation. But, if you're just talking to friends or at a restaraunt, I don't think you should be texting too much. I think it's sort of rude and you should pay full attention to the people you're with. Well, I'm not saying you shouldn't text at all. I think you should really just keep it to a limit. Oh yeah, but when you are in front of important people... like your boss and such, I think you should slip the phone back into your pocket.

2. Do you find it rude if you're talking to somebody and they proceed to text continuously on their cell phone?

     Not completely rude. Like, if I really want to tell my friends something that's important, it would be pretty nice if they listened to me. If they texted a few times, then that's alright! But, if they had their eyes glued to their phone the whole time, I'd believe that they don't care about anything I have to say. SO, yes, I do find it rude... but not always. I actually text people at times while I'm talking to my friends and stuff.

3. If you had to come up with a list of etiquette rules for texting, what would they be?
  
     1. Don't text while eating...?
     2. Don't text when being told something important.
     3. Don't text and walk
     4. Do not, I repeat, do not txt lyke dis