AU Developer Day: Pandemic Studios

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Next-gen Graphics Roundtable
Where do we go from here? Pandemic weighs in.

are nerd sandals part of the uniform at pandemic?

http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/756/756135/pandemic_pics032_1169075283.jpg

Sandals like that imply you go outside, so I would say wearing those puts you into the cool kids club @ a games studio.

I heard there is some n00b that works there that doesnt even wear shoes.

Out.... side?

hey khel, why haven't you applied @ Pandemic yet ?

I'm going to on Monday, I had some leads down south that I was following up, but nothing has come of them, so I'm giving them till the end of the week then I'm sending out some more applications to places locally. Its not that I have anything against Pandemic, they'd be my pick of places to work in Brisbane, its more that I wanted to get out of Brisbane if I could :P

sweet :)

tell 'em I sent you

What do you actually do there Stinky - and no I'm not having a go at you.

He stinks the place up, duh!

stinky does go outside, check it out:

http://www.aus4wd.com/files/images/ormeau_29_12_06/DSC00916-sml.JPG

Being on that angle im sure it must be jim driving ;)

me in a rangie? I don't think so! :D

that's fuknukle's rangie, stinky is bailing to shed some ballast for him :)

lol, it almost looks like he is trying to push it back upright!

What do you actually do there Stinky - and no I'm not having a go at you.

IT Manager ... mostly I just sit around bossing Eds around.

he makes me get under his desk.....bad things happen :(

he makes me get under his desk.....bad things happen :(

Does he summon you by shouting "BITCH, where is my BITCH!"?

hey stinky, how many IT staff do you have there under you? got any jobs going mid yearish?

Currently I only have a single bitch, but I hope to have at least another before year is out.

What good games have pandemic made?

interesting. what sort of stuff do you do there, and would like in a candidate :P I'm just thinking for when my contract runs out mid yearish.

What good games have pandemic made?

Full Spectrum Warrior and those Starwars Battlefront games were pretty cool. And I never played it, but Destroy All Humans looked pretty fun.

The Pandemic building is actually right next to where my brother works (Endeavour Refrigeration). True story!

So i guess that means your names should be in the credits of those games you mentoned then?

It's on the destroy all humans games, The other were made in the LA office so I'm not on them unfortunately.

interesting. what sort of stuff do you do there, and would like in a candidate :P I'm just thinking for when my contract runs out mid yearish.

What don't we do is probably a shorter list :)

Obviously there's desktop support, we try and keep systems as cutting edge as possible, most are Intel6600's with 4gb RAM, so there's fairly minimal PC fixing, but there's still a fair bit of software support as we run some pretty heavy apps.

We run a mixture of Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD servers, Our network is a conventional win2003 domain with exchange03.

Linux runs our intranet, project intranets, server monitoring ( custom app ), proxy, ftp, rsync ( auto syncing with LA ), Perforce ( revision mangement, like VSS or CVS ), and of course Asterisk ( OpenSource VoIP PBX ). Oh and a Build machine and a couple of other misc services.

FreeBSD runs our internet facing servers like SSH ( for RDP tunneling ) and FTP.

We've got a Cisco core ( 3825, and a 5510 ) which connects to our Fibre Internet connection which provides the majority of our bandwidth ( port 80 traffic is routed through our internode adsl2+ ) and also VPN's to our LA office and to Bioware.

There's lots more to talk about, but that's a basic overview.