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"Enter the Matrix - Your Questions"

Over at XboxRules.com we have the chance of an interview with Shiny Entertainment about the upcoming Enter the Matrix game, out on the 15th.

So do you have any questions to ask the development team about the game? If so post it here and it may feature in the interview. The game is multiformat so I think it applies to this forum rather than just the Xbox version.

A questions by Tuesday please...

Cubist wrote:
> No offence Bonus but Abertay University is hardly going to get you
> noticed in the gaming industry.

Not really true.
I know for a fact that Abertay have strong relations with developers and publishers such as Acclaim. They are also the only uni who run a summer competition to uni students all over the country to produce a digital product such as a game, CD, webpage etc.
As you said some companies only look for the big named Uni's but I don't see him having a problem getting the job he is after.

Oh and no. I don't go to Abertay :-P
I'm at strathclyde, doing computer science.

Why did you make Jada Pinkett one of the characters, as she is a talent vacuum - hoovering up screen presence from anyone around her, as can be proved when she was in that college-based comedy "A Different World" with Kareem Hardison - who wasn't Speech from Arrested Development even though he looked like him.

Why does Keanu Reeves think it matters where his hand is? I quote from The Matrix DVD "Keanu is totally a perfectionist, he worries about even the movement of his hand". Does he think the audience gives a hoot where his mitts are?

Can we have a bullet-time porno edition please?

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> This made me laugh.

me too, this child is a genius.
Shame he's dying.

No offence Bonus but Abertay University is hardly going to get you noticed in the gaming industry. Abertay used to be an old tech college but like so many other colleges they simply slapped the words "University" on the sign instead and passed themselves of as such. You cannot expect to get qualifications at a university such as Abertay, Napier etc and expect to be treated with the same respect as someone who has the same qualification from universities such as Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Stirling etc. Some companies such as Esso wont even interview people with the proper qualifications unless they have those qualifications from the top 5 universities in the UK (Oxford etc). Yes you are going to university and yes you are doing a relevant course to what you want to do in life but did it not strike you as strange that Abertay is one of the very, very, very few universities in Scotland that does that course? You should have gone to a university in England if you want to really make it in that industry. You'll probably end up working for Rockstar at best if you really apply yourself but I wouldn't go expecting offers from multi million industries such as Nintendo. Good luck with whatever you do but I would advise you to try and get a transfer to another university that does the same course but will give you better options in life if that's at all possible. As I said, good luck with whatever you do but for now I'd just work my azz off to get ahead in any way possible.

I've got a question :D

I'm doing a Computer Games Tech degree at the University of Abertay, and I want to know how to get myself noticed in the industry. How do I put together a damn fine portfolio and get people to actually look at it, and will there be any sort of public relesae of design documents etc on gamasutra.com for us minions starting out in the industry to have a sneaky peak aT??

Can you go into bullet time and shine Larry Fishburnes head?

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> You play as Ghost and some other internet-nerd named guy, Nubius or
> something really daft like that.
>
> The game... hmmm... even PC Zone said it was nothing special when they
> played it. Things do NOT look good.


No offence, but were you seriously expect it to be a brilliant game?

I'll try again.
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Like the film, will you have to play it twice to even remotely understand the damn thing?

bort the third & only wrote:
> I would like to know whether I will feature in your game as the
> hobgoblin captain, as this has been my lifelong dream.
> What are your plans concerning this important moral issue?
>
> Yours,
> a dying child


This made me laugh.

Bill, or Ben?
Porn, or Pr0n?
Myst - Man or Woman?

Sorry, the last one may have been just a little *too* hard.