I am a junior tele arts major form Albany Georgia. I have been playing video games ever since I can remember. From Duck hunt on NES to Halo 3 now. My parents were always particular with the game choice when I was little so I would have to play things such as mortal combat over at friends houses. I never thought I would still be playing games until I played halo on xbox. I actually went out and bought an xbox because of that game. I got an xbox live account (wesd24) with halo 2 and have been playing ever since. Well, there is life after halo, I began playing sports games and most of the titles I own are Electronic Arts sports games. I am really interested in the competitive aspect of games (league play, rankings and team play). All my life I have been competing in sports (soccer mostly) and it has just been recently that I have figured out why I play games. It fills a void in my life. I miss competing, it may sound juvenile but these games are highly competitive and I gain a lot of satisfaction from them.

I have also realized through the first few weeks of this class how cut-throat the business side of gaming is. That is something I find interesting. Not that it is unexpected because the business side of everything thing is like that but with gaming and game design it seems much more focused.

Another aspect I have been interested in is how the stock market reacts to games and title releases. I have thought there is a lot of money to be made in the business and video games is something i feel comfortable in investing. 

As far as career i hope to one day be a major motion film director (I know big dreams but it is nice to have some thing to shoot for).  

i'm a fourth year advertising major here at uga.  the main reason i chose advertising was that since i spend so much time in front of the tv, i might as well attempt to make it better.  like a lot of guys my age, i grew up on video games.  in fact, i've played video games so long i got mega man tattooed on my leg (in case you're curious, he has the power of elec man from mega man 1).  though time to play video games has increasingly diminished as i've gotten older, i do try to make time to play WoW, left 4 dead, and a couple other games when possible.

outside of school i work as a manager at the blockbuster in watkinsville and am currently working on my music.  other interests include comics and adult swim programming.

 as an ad. major, i think video games are an interesting medium for advertising.  you know it works well when you hardly notice it, but man it blows when it's blatantly obvious.  

and no, i don't endorse gang warfare, but i do enjoy their hand signals.

I'm 21 years old, majoring in Telecommunication Arts, and minoring in religion (just for kicks). I am really big into doing game design stuff. I spend a lot of time working on a fairly large-scale modification for Unreal Tournament, which is about a third of the way complete now, and I focus on making the gameplay as psychotic/intense/insane, yet fun, as possible. I've gotten pretty good at balancing level-specific gameplay, weapons/health/items, and overarching thematic/strategic arcs in the mod's style, so I hope to be able to use this work as an example of what I'm capable of when I go out looking for a job.

If you are bored, you can see some example videos of things I and my partner in crime have made for the mod. Look here: http://youtube.com/user/Waffnuffly

Also, this picture is the most recent one I have of myself. I was trying on clothes for a funeral, and my mom and sister wanted to ensure I looked good. My mom was out of town, so I had my dad take this picture and we emailed it to her. AMAZING STORY also my dog is the best. Sorry. Your dog isn't the best; mine is. I don't live with my dog (or the other two dogs), though; they live at home with my parents (in this house).

My name is Austin Pratt. I'm a third year newspapers major, film studies minor, and new media student. I'm from Syracuse, NY and moved down here just before high school.

I've been playing video games since I was really young. I was a big sonic fan and I loved the old school madden football games and NBA jam. I still play video games a lot and I would say FPS games tend to be my thing.

Hopefully one day I'll get a job at a newspaper, magazine or whatever wants to hire me as a movie critic or sports writer or even a video game magazine doing reviews.