Hello All, I am a senior in college (CmpSci), and I was wondering how I would best approach getting a job in the game industry. I''ve made many clones of simple games (pong and the such), but I''m certain that a company would like to see more than that. I know openGL reasonably well (I took a CG course last semester, and did well, but my programs ran incredibly slow and the scenes were not even remotely complex as a Quake scene). This leads me to believe I need to take another approach to developing a 3d game (BSP tree or something) in order to speed it up. Having said all that, this is my question: If I were to make a 3d game, what would be more impressive to a company, a game made using something like Genesis3d, or should I write the entire game and graphics engine (using OpenGL)? Or should I consider something else? Thanks for your time, Andy

I know exactly what you are talking about. I was there not too long ago. If you have to choose, go with writing your own engine.

A lot of companies will give programming tests to people who don''t have any industry experience, but in reality, this tend to be more 3D math tests. You''ll be much more prepared for this kind of test if you know how to build an engine from the ground up.