My World

So if you’ve never played video games in your life then you probably don’t know who Blizzard is. But if you’ve been playing games for more than 3 years then Blizzard should be a name that tingles parts in your body. They’ve made small games such as Diablo I,II, and working on Diablo III. Starcraft I and working on Starcraft II, Lost Vikings I & II, and the small franchise of Warcraft I,II,III, and World of Warcraft.

So Blizzard stopped by Full Sail to talk to students and give a presentation about Blizzard themselves. A lot of the presentation was about how to get a job at Blizzard as a programmer,designer, or artist. They also discussed how they are making their local internship program national now and how they are starting to hire a lot more entry level positions. So it was a great presentation and you would think I would be plenty satisfied with them just giving a presentation.

But I was 1 of 7 lucky game development students who got to sit down with Blizzard for an hour and talk about many different things. I was also part of one of the lucky final project groups who got to sit down with the Blizzard people and have them check out our game and talk about how things are done at Blizzard. That was great and they seemed to really like our concept, we also told them that we got a lot of our abilities from WoW and Diablo. They seemed surprised by that.

Oh but it’s not over yet, Rob Coble the head of Career Development for the Game Development program here at Full Sail called me earlier this week end informed me I had the rare opportunity to actually sit down and interview with Blizzard for 20 minutes. This was amazing and I was very excited to actually get to sit down with them. The interview itself was a lot of fun and I really appreciate them coming down and checking out how great Full Sail really is and how passionate we are about games here.

So to end this I would really like to thank the two employees from Blizzard Entertainment University Relations who stopped by and visited out school: Choua Her and Sumer Ortiz.