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The Valve Employee Handbook
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jesus
Dragoon En Regalia
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I was born to work at a place like this, where self-balancing, self-conscious individuals could interlock with each other in friendly competition and necessary cooperation to create some of the greatest interactive entertainment of our time. I may not yet be able to comprehend a work environment like this, where the feeling of overburdening work anxiety, lack of horizons and creative openings, and other depressing, demotivating intricacies of the modern business' hierarchal circle-jerk would ever get in the way of me and my co-workers getting cool shit made for ourselves, and our customers as well. But I eagerly await the day that I can be part of such an important company, where your ability to adapt and stay virile in an ever-changing world and, subsequently, an ever-evolving marketplace, will lead to being a worthy part of the grand machine that recognizes itself in the mirror, and makes funny facial expressions to boot. And I can't help but feel that the prodigious down payment in cash necessary to kickstart something like Valve is, ultimately, worth it in the long run, something for investors and considerate folk all around the Western world to consider themselves.
—If I was a true Judeo-Christain, this would be Heaven on Earth, or at least as close to such a conceptualized, fictionalized realm as is possible. Even then, with my Nietzschean mind and vigorous opposition to dishonesty in the world, Valve seems like a __gic place in its own special way. Perhaps the best way to get in, when I think about it, is to forget that it exists and learn to become a T-shaped individual on your own, in oppressive conditions and the darkness of long-term inefficacies and inevitable societal failure. Then, and only then anyway, will someone like me learn to trust one another and trust my own abilities to adapt and become versatile enough, free enough to comprehend Valve in the flesh.
Inevitably, there comes a time and place where it can be let all out, those emotions and inner voices that know best about how an individual wants to live, regardless of the cost and risks involved. For nothing else but this, there's always going to be a Valve. Tomorrow's Valve.
—If I was a true Judeo-Christain, this would be Heaven on Earth, or at least as close to such a conceptualized, fictionalized realm as is possible. Even then, with my Nietzschean mind and vigorous opposition to dishonesty in the world, Valve seems like a __gic place in its own special way. Perhaps the best way to get in, when I think about it, is to forget that it exists and learn to become a T-shaped individual on your own, in oppressive conditions and the darkness of long-term inefficacies and inevitable societal failure. Then, and only then anyway, will someone like me learn to trust one another and trust my own abilities to adapt and become versatile enough, free enough to comprehend Valve in the flesh.
Inevitably, there comes a time and place where it can be let all out, those emotions and inner voices that know best about how an individual wants to live, regardless of the cost and risks involved. For nothing else but this, there's always going to be a Valve. Tomorrow's Valve.
Chaos
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In a recent electronics podcast I listen to they talk to a hardware guy who has just been offered a job with Valve if anyone's interested.
Episode 92
http://www.theamphour.com/
Episode 92
http://www.theamphour.com/
Ravensmash
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Damn it, I really want to work there :[
She talked about a board of directors and Gabe. Doesn't really clash with much.
Sentenza
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Sounds to me like she's confirming what she's supposed to deny, to be honest.
Kim Swift said:
Of course there are employee that for seniority or relevance are more influential than others and in fact decide the future for the company, that was a given, but she's essentially confirming that there is no rigid structure.
Fine Ham Abounds
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I missed this somehow. Printing 12 copies and distributing this in the office today ;p
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KimSwiftviaTwitter said:
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Stallion Free
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Lol her exit always did strike me as rather dramatic. Especially with what her next project ended up being.
Wasn't it about some sexual themes in a game idea of her's or something? And this game seems to have nothing in that regard.
Nothing about that article is controversial, she's right, we know Valve have management and Gabe has made huge decisions in terms of the direction projects and the company in general. She doesn't slag them off or anything.
EDIT: The 'sexual' thing people talk about is she was pulled from a public discussion about losing her virginity or something, some people interpreted that as an influence on her leaving.
EDIT: The 'sexual' thing people talk about is she was pulled from a public discussion about losing her virginity or something, some people interpreted that as an influence on her leaving.
Ah right, that was it.
Stallion Free
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In the way that she left Valve during Portal 2's preproduction where everyone was presenting ideas and the hivemind decided what direction to go in and then she reveals what is almost guaranteed to be what she wanted to do for Portal 2 at another studio, a concept that wasn't chosen for Portal 2.
It seems obvious since literally everything shown in the game clearly wouldn't be out of place in a Portal game and the theme is Pixar does Portal.
I'm still quite hyped for Quantum Conundrum, but the whole situation does strike me as being rather dramatic.
So, I think she leaving Valve is not something so dramatic. In the games industry, people like to try another things. Kim is someone who likes to design her own kind of games, and I'm sure that, if she could do her idea of Portal 2, she would have stayed. And it was a great idea of a game. As a developer too, when I really like an idea, I'll do my best to have it executed. Kim found a place to develop that idea and went for it. And now, we have both the Portal franchise, which is in great hands, and Quantum Conundrum. Both sides win.
I H8 Memes
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One of the few times Valve has disappointed me was when they made her leave that competition because of the theme.