I just sent in my applications for a few of Blizzard's 2010 summer internships, I am already expecting many rejection emails. >.< But, what I keep telling myself is, "At least you applied Lindsay!" I'm trying to have confidence, but I mean c'mon it's Blizzard for goodness sake!!
What's a bit ironic about the whole thing is that I didn't really apply for any art internships, I applied for the technical artist internship and that's it, but I couldn't really finish any drawings or concept pieces before the deadline. Submitting a WIP is just a big no no :P and all of my old crap is just plain unacceptable, haha. There is always next year though!
What's kinda cool is that I applied for the game tester position and got to write up a game analysis on my current favorite game, Mass Effect 2! I've analyzed games before, in my head, but never in a strict format. It was SO fun! I wish all my essays for art history could be about game analyses. :P I'm not quite sure what format, or how long, Blizzard wanted the analysis to be but mine turned out to be about 2 1/2 pages in the end.
Now I'm in internship application mode!! I'm excited to apply for the other companies that are on my "list" for internships I want this summer. I even have them prioritized according to how badly I want them and how close the deadline is. Next up is Riot Games, I would LOVE to intern there! League of Legends was a great beta to participate in and they just seem like a great group of people.
Anywhobers, I'm off to sleep and go through a few weeks of panic before I receive info (or lack there of) from Blizzard.
Sweet! Well there's sure no reason not to apply for it. I wish I'd done it last year. Hope you get accepted!
ReplyDeleteEven if you don't, you should hit up Blizzcon this year! Word is it's going to be in Vegas which if you ask me is extra awesome and cheaper to travel to than Anaheim.
I've wanted to go to Blizzcon forever!! I've heard the tickets are really hard to get though, have you been before?
ReplyDeletegood on you. apply for stuff early and often. good luck!
ReplyDeleteThanks Miles :D
ReplyDeleteYea, I went to Blizzcon 2009.
ReplyDeleteWhat they do is tell everyone when they're going to open ticket sales (a day and time). You go to the page about the time they open and constantly refresh your browser, and it will go from "not available yet" or something like that, to letting you grab X number of tickets. Basically, if you don't do it in the first 5 seconds of sales opening, you probly won't get one.
Myself and two friends sat on the queue on the first day of sales (they did 3 total I think), and I managed to get us three tickets. It tells you you're in a Queue (I think I was 2250 of 11,000).
So basically you just gotta now when it's going down and be fast with F5 and your mouse :p
It helps to have multiple people do it too. If you do get into the queue in a low spot you haven't bought the tickets yet, so it doesn't hurt to have a couple people try to buy the amount if tickets you need because you don't actually purchase them until you've gone through the queue, and if you make it to the shopping cart, they're yours.