One of the reasons people have given on why they like working with me as a designer is because of my engineering background. “You actually design things that can be implemented,” as one well-known producer told me. Game designs still have to work on computers, which are what people with engineering-related degrees often understand in depth.

That said, by the time you get to the Senior level for developers, the degree often matters a lot less than previous work experience and references. And, if Bioware is like most companies, the requirements are more a list of “it would be nice to have…” considerations. Assuming that HR isn’t throwing out contacts from people that don’t happen to have one of those degrees, that requirement isn’t quite as onerous as one might think. (Given the EA acquisition, however, one never knows….)

As we move forward into exporting more data about characters we will probably also add some “release my data to this application” stuff where the API key will uniquely identify the application.

Of course for all that to work, app developers have to actually GET keys and the link Matthew posted is actually broken. I’m looking into that now.

“Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or Engineering required”

Seriously, that’s what they want from your senior designer? An engineer? oooo-kay.

http://potbs.armeagle.nl/map-Rackham.php

On the other hand, his writing was a little bit unclear and could easily be misinterpreted as him saying otherwise.

Pirates of the Burning Sea: according to the PDF, you have to acquire API keys from http://www.burningsea.com/page/developer - which seems like it might be holding things up. Incidentally, although no one asked my opinion, I’m not a big fan of the API key approach to providing the data… I’d be curious to hear more about their reasoning on that.