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| 21 DEC 2005 at 8:50am |
IviniaGuild Master
Posts : 4459
Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | Well, a large part here work in IT.
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| 21 DEC 2005 at 10:10am |
Alan ThornSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 240
Joined: 8 JUN 2005
Status : Online | I'm an occupational hazard.
An accident, some might say.
An accident just waiting to happen.
I'm an occupational hazard.
An accident, some might say.
An accident just waiting to happen.
I'm an occupational hazard.
An accident, some might say.
An accident just waiting to happen.
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| 21 DEC 2005 at 10:53am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16553
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | I'm only filling in time here until the next space bus..... I've completed my original assignment several times - some occasions even with clothes! My conclusion is that chocolate tastes good 24/7 but is slightly better when you're hungry and not much good under water of sky-diving. I think it's a ground-breaking study, I should get my thesis from Space University for this one. oh, sorry, you want my occupation? well, b/s artist just about fits, I reckon. pay's lousy btw.......
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| 21 DEC 2005 at 3:49pm |
| Deleted User | I think adventure gaming feels natural to many engineers and people who work with computers, because these fields share one of the major elements of adventure games: Problem solving by logical thinking. It was the first genre of games to appear on standard computers (action games came more out of the arcades and the first video game devices) and at that time, everyone who used computers had technical skills, so it came naturally to them to design games that would challenge your mind I guess...
Another important element of adventure games is storytelling, so I think they might appeal to people who like storytelling in general. Like, writers and people who work in TV and movies perhaps. That's a theory I have anyway... Might not be possible to verify it these days when games of almost any genre feature storytelling, but maybe it was evident ten years ago.
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| 21 DEC 2005 at 9:50pm |
AvatarPrivate Detective
Posts : 661
Joined: 3 JAN 2004
Status : Online | um. i have nothing to do with IT.
i'm in tv.
go figure.
My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.&&&&The measure of civility in a society is not how it treats those that are loved, but how it treats those that are hated.
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| 22 DEC 2005 at 12:49am |
KsandraSchattenjger
Posts : 2459
Joined: 2 APR 2003
Status : Online | I'm a student (economics and politics), but my parents are both software engineers. Does that count?
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| 22 DEC 2005 at 9:38pm |
JoGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 3 NOV 2002
Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Doubt if there's really much connection between one's occupation and adventure games, I can see that people whose work involves any sort of IT would probably be drawn to computer games of some sort but would they necessarily be adventure games? Maybe they'd be more interested in strategy games or perhaps action. One thing though, I feel that adventure games are a natural progression for people who love reading thrillers and detective novels - unfortunately many of those people seem to assume that a computer game of any sort means either playing Solitaire or shoot-'em-ups, well, that's been my experience when talking to them anyway. :
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| 22 DEC 2005 at 9:40pm |
| Deleted User | I think that kids, usually, play games more than adults. So I think it would be fair to say that students would be an occupation where you can easily find gamers - middleschool, highschool, or uni.
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| 22 DEC 2005 at 10:50pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4047
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | Yes, I have found that many adventure gamers are also readers, but we have all kinds of occupations. Some of us are even retired.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 22 DEC 2005 at 11:07pm |
| Deleted User | I believe everyone likes an "escape" from reality if it be a movie, sporting event.....
I was hooked from Pong to Mario Bros to Maniac Mansion and so on...
I'm a Pizza Guy who used to be a CPA for a living. Go figure.
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| 22 DEC 2005 at 11:59pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Another software engineer here. However, I think adventure games have more to do with personality than occupation. Inquisitiveness, patience, love of a good puzzle/mystery, those are all requisites for adventure gamers. It may well be that such traits also steer people in the direction of certain occupations, but I wouldn't count on that.
I forgot my sig.
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| 23 DEC 2005 at 12:47am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5540
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I do data entry work, so I can't say my job reflects my interest in adventures. Except maybe what Michal mentioned about patience -- they both require that! (As data entry is fearsomely boring, by the way.)
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| 23 DEC 2005 at 1:24am |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3438
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Well, I know it has nothing to do with any job Ive ever had, I just like to play
games period, board games, video games, etc.
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| 23 DEC 2005 at 5:13am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By MichalN (22 DEC 2005 11:58pm)
Another software engineer here. However, I think adventure games have more to do with personality than occupation. Inquisitiveness, patience, love of a good puzzle/mystery, those are all requisites for adventure gamers. It may well be that such traits also steer people in the direction of certain occupations, but I wouldn't count on that.
Michals got my number here. I'm a software engineer who hopes to just be a mail carrier someday soon. Regardless of what I do, I love the escapism of good adventure games. In fact, the heavier my engineer job gets, the less I play AGs. I never finished Nancy Drew #1 and am struggling to find time for Rhem 2.
I think my job requires too much of the other side of the brain than AGs do.
Eh?
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| 23 DEC 2005 at 11:53am |
| Deleted User | I am a co-owner (together with my brother) of a printing company and a advertsing agency.
Btw: 60% are male, means that 40% is female. No? serious? 8-)
And that's a lot for a computergamingsite.
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| 24 DEC 2005 at 8:00am |
AllanonJourneyman
Posts : 1322
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Offline | The best people play adventure games . Enough said , no ? Or should I qualify " best " ? We're not rare , we're just goood . Take care . Cheers !
You only live once , but , if you live right , once is enough . Being happy takes work ...
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| 25 DEC 2005 at 3:56am |
Pastor DisasterJourneyman
Posts : 1056
Joined: 14 DEC 2004
Status : Online | Well, I currently am a professor at a Bible college. So that probably skews the results.
To fit the pattern better, I do have a bachelor's degree in physics. And my son has (high-functioning) autism, which is kinda like being a software engineer...
Dyslexics wonder why there isn't a word that means the same thing as "cinnamon."
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| 25 DEC 2005 at 8:58am |
SkyeSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 348
Joined: 20 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Hmmm, well. . . . . . I would say that while the results don't show a particular field they do show that we all have some degree of smarts judging by the jobs listed. Maybe that's the key???
Skye
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| 27 DEC 2005 at 11:31pm |
RckaseaIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 28
Joined: 9 JAN 2005
Status : Online | Operating Engineer,
Though I did major in computer science 8-)
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| 28 DEC 2005 at 6:35pm |
anthonyJourneyman
Posts : 1270
Joined: 11 JUN 2003
Status : Offline | Interesting question. Okay, let's try to answer it by breaking it down to its very basics. Adventure gaming, or any type of computer gaming, is a leisure activity that one can do on a solitary basis and where one need not leave the confines of their habitat.
When viewed this way, I would say the kind of people who play adventure games are people who like to play with themselves in the privacy of their own homes.
Um, on second thought, I'll go with smart people.
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| 29 DEC 2005 at 9:59pm |
SusanGuild Master
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Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Ivinia (21 DEC 2005 8:49am)
Well, a large part here work in IT. Not everybody.
Some of us are in IS.
More specifically, MIS. :
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 30 DEC 2005 at 1:32am |
starventureSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 232
Joined: 24 OCT 2003
Status : Online | Student, studying to be an aero engineer.
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And having just taken a class for C++ , I think all you software engineers are nuts.
[smiley=hair_pull.gif] all my work and still B- . [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
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| 30 DEC 2005 at 6:50am |
| Deleted User | I suspect that people who like Adventure Games in preference to FPS or other games has little to do with their occupation, age or choice of reading matter. More likely, adventure games were the first games they ever played on a personal computer .... at home. Sierra and Lucas Arts got many of us hooked back in the 80's. Remember that having a PC at home in the 80's and even in the early 90's was not a common thing. The people who bought a PC for home use in those days did so because they were progressive and wanted to embrace new technology, and it wasn't a cheap purchase! [smiley=whistle.gif]
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| 30 DEC 2005 at 8:35am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Diogenes (30 DEC 2005 6:50am)
Remember that having a PC at home in the 80's and even in the early 90's was not a common thing. The people who bought a PC for home use in those days did so because they were progressive and wanted to embrace new technology, and it wasn't a cheap purchase! [smiley=whistle.gif]
I'll say! In the 80s, I paid $4000 for a 286 with a 9 pin dot matrix printer with a 40mb h/d. And we knew no one else with a computer back then.
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