Where Are You?

[Grazer]

I think the question says it all.
I ordered it alphabetically so that whoever came last couldn't take offence.

This thread might also be a good place to write something about what the games industry is like in your area, especially whether there's any professional Java games development going on.

[Mojomonkey]

Puyallup, Washington, USA. South a bit of Seattle, Washington. Games industry is very strong here (i.e. Nintendo of America, Valve, Bungie, Microsoft Game, etc).

http://www.igda.org/seattle/developers.htm

[ap_kelly]

I'm in Sydney Australia, there is a games company in Melbourne, I think they did the latest Transformers game.  

Java is big over here (for business at least, no idea about games companies using it) , I see many jobs advertised for J2EE and Java skills. None for OpenGl and Java yet though, still, my fingers are crossed.

Andy.

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[cfmdobbie]

UK, near London.

As you'd expect, there are a number of game dev houses in this area.  The biggest concentration is around Guildford, where Bullfrog spun off numerous satellite companies like Lionhead, Big Blue Box etc.

P.S. I've heard tell that some odd people come from a funny-shaped country called "New Zealand".  I guess they're Australian, now?

[Bombadil]

I've been thinking the United Kingdom belongs to the continent named Europe, too... :-)

It's just that they don't want to be a full member of that thing called "European Union", for example no Euro currency, etc. But well, you can live without that (heartily greetings to Switzerland).

[Grazer]

So much for not causing offence.  

As you may know, you can only enter up to eight options for a poll, so I chose those eight as they seemed the most sensible break-up.
I put USA and UK separate from their continents as I thought these might make up a high proportion of the developers in their continents and people would want to see them separate.

As for New Zealanders, <insert favourite sheep joke here>.
Just kidding, guys.

Seriously, if your region/country doesn't fit within the bounds of the survey (e.g. Middle East? Pacific Islands? Antarctica?), just choose the closest one and then put up a post to say where you're really from - I'd love to know who's interested in game development outside these bounds!

So everybody be cool.
Just go with the flow.  

[MasterDirk]

Norway, here. Bergen, to be exact. Look it up, should be under "rainiest city on Earth".

And now it's cold, too

Anyone got a high-paying, low-stress job for me in, say, Bali or Hawaii?

Didn't think so...

[Spasi]

Alexandroupolis, northern Greece. No gaming here, no java action. Well, actually, no serious software developing at all in this weird country.

Right now we're trying to set our little start-up on its feet. And that's thanks to the good EU, it provides the only support we'll ever get.

[weston]

Colorado, near Denver + school in Denver. I found a list with something like 40 game dev companies in colorado, so thats ok. Also, I went to a 'Colorado Game Developers' meeting a few days ago and one of the companies says they use java for all their games. I believe I've seen a person from the company on here once or twice...

[Chman]

France, near Paris

Chman

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[Per_T]

Sweden. Think we have two big game companies here: DICE (Battlefield etc.) and Massive (Ground Control).

We also have Agency9 and Meqon (physics engine).

The game industry seems to be sort of dead ATM, but lots of ppl are going these game educations, so that might change...

[darkprophet]

Birmingham UK....Thats where i live

Im originally Iraqi but i have a New Zealand passport.....so stop those sheep jokes!  

Seriously, your walking down the street and you start seeing sheep randomly! IIRC, theres like 72 million sheep and around 3 million people....

Im actually quite terrified of the day when sheep get some proper brains!

As for game developers, not a clue! Im still at school (next year to university!  :-/....no more free food!)

I think ive rambled on enough here....DP

[Hauk]

I'm from Ireland, so I voted UK cos its the closest to home.

Ah well,

Hauk

[bauerr]

Germany.  

[aNt]

london england- i think

[shawnkendall]

WOW, USA makes up a measly 20% of the total; that is so awesome! (80s American slang, lost on international audience ;-))

[Mojomonkey]

80s American slang, lost on international audience

What's scary is how many people I thought were from the US that aren't, soley based on their use of American slang. Please, people stop using American slang, it's not very good, I want more use of: Hoser, Bloody, Cheerio, Wanker, etc.

[Matlu]

Czech Republic, Prague.
Many companies offer java-related jobs here (also Sun and Borland have development here), but c++ and .net seem to prevail. I'm not sure if someone uses java for professional games here...

[gregof]

Sweden, Luleå for me.
Here (in Luleå) we have Agency9 (which I have done some work for btw), now I work with webapplications for an other company, but if i lean out the window,  I may be able to throw a rock at their office  

// Gregof

[Tomas]

Then I'll just use my super powers and throw it right back at you  

// Tomas

[kul_th_las]

Phoenix, Arizona. Home of Rainbow Studios who have made "Motocross Madness", published by Microsoft years ago (don't know what they're doing these days). Funny, I picked up one of their animators years ago on the freeway - his car was broken down. And just two days ago I ran into one of their developers, wearing a t-shirt that said "game developer." He was in Fry's Electronics buying a new Gigabyte motherboard.

I think Phoenix (or maybe Scottsdale, a city litterally adjacent to Phoenix) is also home of the team who did the MMO "Horizons". As far as I know, there's no Java game development though.

[James_Attenborough]

Cape Town, South Africa (starting to feel a bit lonely.... I was hoping there might be someone else from Africa on this board).

To my knowledge, there aren't really any game dev companies in South Africa.... there are a few kids who play around with some stuff in their sparetime, and maybe a few friends who tried to make a game when they were in high school, but honestly, that's about it. Most people here with any "m4d d3v skillz" are desperately trying to get out of here, and into a first world country.

The only things we really have are like EA South Africa, or other local branches of the big companies. They don't really do anything except marketing their products though.

[shawnkendall]

I really like this poll, I think it's very interesting look at this forum and the world view of Java games in general.
Please, more people vote so we can get a more complete distribution number.
There are >4000 people registered on this board!

[TheAnalogKid]

I'm from province of Quebec in Canada and I live in Montreal.

[Ceranith]

Arizona as well

[Daire Quinlan]

Dublin, Ireland.
Currently unemployed & looking for work :-(

Nothing much going on in dublin games wise. Seems to be a renewed interest in J2Me stuff for mobiles over the last while though. And google just opened up here. Maybe i'll zip off my CV to them today :-)

D.

[c_lilian]

south of france (google for Pont du Gard, I live on the other side of the mountains).

Anyody been there ? (France is the world's most visited country, and that roman bridge has 2 million visitors / years )

Lilian

[swpalmer]

Wow, so many of you hosers are from Europe, eh?

(Makes me think that Sun's GTG should try to participate in more of the European conferences instead of making you guys fly to the US.)

[Hansdampf]

Germany, near Stuttgart. 2 weeks ago I've been to Peru for one month (good beer over there, too)

[Nraged]

Somewhere in Oxford - although I wish I lived in Krabi, Thailand