Hi, I am posting this on behalf of a colleague of mine who's 5th
grader has thse questions about game developer for a presentation. The
questions are mainly about designing, not sure how much the overlap is
of development v/s designing, but I will appreciate any response.
Thanks in advance.
Following are the questions:

1.  What training did you need to have in order to do your job?

2.  What do you think about violent video games, and why do you think
that?

3.  What is the process of creating a video game?

4.  Why did you become a video game designer?

5.  What video games have you helped with?

Maybe the idea behind the kid getting assigned this task was that he was
actually, you know, supposed to be the one who did it.

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The child does not know of any video game designers/developers.
Thank you for your response, though it was not helpful.

On Apr 15, 8:18 pm, Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com> wrote:

In article
<0560061c-bb35-4cd3-8c27-7ae2b6faa...@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
 Aamir Ghanchi <aamirghan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Perhaps you missed the helpful part.

While we all appreciate your good intentions, it is actually harmful to
the 5th grader for you to be asking the questions on his or her behalf.  
We understand that you're trying to be nice, but your efforts are
misdirected.  One might think this is none of our collective business
however, as said 5th grader will likely grow up to be one who serves us
as we age -- be it as waiter, bank teller or gas station attendant -- we
are highly motivated to encourage the development of capable youth
becoming capable adults.

One good source of the type of information your friend's 5th grader
seeks is www.sloperama.com/advice.  Keep in mind that there is a lot of
information on this page, and so an adult's assistance in sifting
through it, teaching the child how to look through large amounts of
information to find the bits they want, is a good idea.

However, you reading the answers, then providing them, only teaches the
child dependence on others.  This will make them a weak adult, incapable
of fending for themselves, incapable of counting change, incapable of
getting my order right and incapable of passing the correct brand of
cigarettes over the gas-station counter.  This will make the world a
worse place to live.

The choice is yours.  Do The Right Thing.    ;)

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Hi Elaine,

Thanks for your reponse. From the way these questions are worded, I
thought it was obvious to anyone that they are supposed to be an
interview for a videogame designer to reflect on their first hand
experience with the trade they are in. Since the kid does not have "in
person" access to such professionals, it made sense to post the
questions online. The medium through which they are asked is the only
thing that is different about them. If it were simply sifting through
and compiling information from the web/library, we could have done it
very easily.

I really don't intend to waste the bytes on these newsgroups by going
into a lengthy discussion to make my point. Therefore, if you do not
have direct answers to the questions in the original post, then I will
appreciate if you refrain from posting any other advice.

Thanks.

I thought it was obvious from the way the questions were posed
On Apr 16, 11:14 am, Miss Elaine Eos <M...@your-pants.PlayNaked.com>
wrote:

It was; you just don't realize it.

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Perhaps then it'd be more useful to the individual to be posing the
questions in this forum for herself.  Posting on the Usenet is not
rocket science, and familiarity with the method by which things work in
these forums would give the individual a leg up on many of her
colleagues in school.

Sure; you don't have that access either clearly, so why not give the
student the tools to do the research for herself?  Now, I understand
that 5th grade in the US implies about 10 years old, although I don't
know where any of those involved are located nor whether the student can
even read and write in English herself, but perhaps rather than throwing
out a fill-in-the-blanks, a more appropriate query would start somewhere
along the lines of, "the ten-year-old daughter of a colleague is looking
to do research on X, and would like to directly email a number of
individuals meeting criteria Y on topics such as A, B, and C.  Anyone
who would be interested in helping this student in her studies, please
email s...@email.address.

No worries.  "We" have no idea what this information will be used for or
where it'll be reproduced.  Indeed, anonymous information collected on
the intertubez seems to be of dubious value when it comes to research
anyway.

Good luck, all the same,
-tom!

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