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Hello, Austin!

 

[Robot Pants]

Fixed.

I laughed.

 

[Salsa]

Got excited until I saw that it was for teenagers and specifically students.

Aim a bit wider Valve.

:[

fat people count as teenagers too

 

[Forsaken82]

from the FAQ

When coming up with a name we wanted to with something that would connect to Valve to the community.

Yup... the future

 

[Deleted member 80556]

I signed up! I'm still quite young, and if I'm not successful at what I'm doing right now, I'd rather just get into this.

 

[Robot Pants]

HL3: We wanted to with something edition

 

[brooklyniteOne]

Damn valve how about some diversity.

"Teenagers like you."

Really?

 

[demosthenes]

Fixed.

:lol

 

[HamPster PamPster]

I thought PC gaming is where us old people went to get away from all the stupid kids and teenagers

 

[blamite]

from the FAQ



Yup... the future

"'Pipeline' however, best displays the ideas that this team is working with. The idea of directing information at people who want it. The name pipeline displays a direct feed of knowledge from Valve to the general public."

This reads like something straight out of a bad high school essay. It's actually kind of adorable, in a "awww, I used to write like that too" kind of way.

Also they write video games as one word which is pretty lame.

 

[MrCunningham]

That website is horrible.

When I was a teen, the kids my age were all happy making GeoCities pages with animated .gifs, midi music and bad clashing tiled backgrounds... .

 

[AppleSmack]

Ladies and gentleman, the HL3 development team.

I laughed. I guess Valve is interested in running its company to the ground by employing uneducated brats instead of qualified professionals.

 

[Dark Octave]

(American) Teenagers like you!

Well Valve is an American company.

Maybe they'll branch out later but one thing at a time.

 

[Ghost23]

It's salty in here

I laughed. I guess Valve is interested in running its company to the ground by employing uneducated brats instead of qualified professionals.

Jesus, man. What gave any impression of them being "brats"? Grow up

 

[njean777]

Seems pretty neat to me. Will watch it develop.

 

[mentalfloss]

Valve is too far up it's own...

 

[McSpidey]

I could't tell you how many times I've heard from game developers how useless most "game schools/courses" are (there are exceptions obviously), so so this is an interesting experiment that I think should work pretty well PROVIDED Valve senior devs actually spend time with/work with the newbies.

People are fast practical learners when given the chance and who knows what we'll get with a new generation of devs not specifically bred for the role.

 

[TheGoddamn]

(American) Teenagers like you!

And they are also all white. Just like me? And you! And everyone!

 

[kurtrussell]

Dear Valve,

Here's an idea: Before you set up yet more stupid distractions, why not concentrate on bringing down your average customer support response from about 1 1/2 years to, I don't know, 24 hours like most people?

Love,

Kurtrussell

 

[Dark Octave]

I laughed. I guess Valve is interested in running its company to the ground by employing uneducated brats instead of qualified professionals.

Fresh blood often generates fresh ideas. And it doesn't take a lifetime to learn a particular field in the game industry. Two or three years and you're pretty much vetted in any one thing.

 

[AppleSmack]

Fresh blood often generates fresh ideas. And it doesn't take a lifetime to learn a particular field in the game industry. Two or three years and you're pretty much vetted in any one thing.

2 or 3 years is not enough to even become a bottom of the barrel software engineer if you are learning from scratch. You have to be a certified genius to be able to accomplish that without an education. This program should be aimed at Universities, not at high schools. Many of these kids may not even attend higher education.

 

[Atomski]

 

[Shosai]

Got excited until I saw that it was for teenagers and specifically students.

Aim a bit wider Valve. It's a great idea but it's missing the key demographic of the 20+ school leaver who wants that starting point into the industry, despite their school choices.

But teenagers and college students don't expect a salary...

 

[Dark Octave]

2 or 3 years is not enough to even become a bottom of the barrel software engineer if you are learning from scratch. You have to be a certified genius to be able to accomplish that without an education. This program should be aimed at Universities, not at high schools. Many of these kids may not even attend higher education.

I don't know about engineering so I'm not even going to speak on that but if you're a artist, game designer or sound designer, you should be good two or three years in of doing it for a living for videogames. Especially if you have talent. A formal education is just a formality in those fields.

 

[McSpidey]

I think this may also be a way of competing with the current trend of senior, experienced devs going indie/kickstarting their new studio, which is obviously a talent leak that is hard to replace at the same rate.

 

[kurtrussell]

From what I've read about Valve's endemic lack of structure, I think it would be a really bad idea for someone young and new to the industry to get thrown into that kind of environment.

Could potentially put these kids off of the industry for life.

 

[lamaroo]

Valve condones child labour.

 

[nickp]

This is fucking awesome. Go, Valve!

I have personal experience teaching industry-standard development tools to teenagers and I will say that, given the right tools and guidance, they will blow your mind.

 

[Technosteve]

Website is not iOS Safari compatible.

 

[Astarte]

From what I've read about Valve's endemic lack of structure, I think it would be a really bad idea for someone young and new to the industry to get thrown into that kind of environment.

Could potentially put these kids off of the industry for life.

Nah, high school kids would fit in fine. If valve is like high school, the more the merrier

 

[Nafai1123]

Website is not iOS Safari compatible.

iOS/Safari is for old people.

 

[SneakyStephan]

Do they get breaks for naps?

If they are late to work do they need to bring a note from home?

 

[Semblance]

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l o l

 

[Chinner]

wish i could work for valve

 

[wenis]

Do I need to be a teenager?

 

[Sibylus]

What happens when they turn 20?

They're ground down and fed to a new batch of teenagers.

 

[bodyboarder]

I feel like all this is gonna accomplish is making me feel bad because of younger people being more succesful and productive than me

Pretty much.

 

[Woo-Fu]

is Valve starting a boy band

No, that'd be sexist.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

I feel like all this is gonna accomplish is making me feel bad because of younger people being more succesful and productive than me

Indeed, just like the Oculus Rift creator being 20 years old.

 

[reptilescorpio]

I feel like all this is gonna accomplish is making me feel bad because of younger people being more succesful and productive than me

.

 

[EinSof]

interesting that all the kids talking are in positions that have very little to do with video game production. the most being the girl who was a graphic designer, even then that's objectionable.

 

[Smash88]

interesting that all the kids talking are in positions that have very little to do with video game production. the most being the girl who was a graphic designer, even then that's objectionable.

Are you sure you watched the same video as us?

 

[Bluth54]

First thing I thought of too.

 

[Vilam]

Interesting idea. I have doubts at how applicable the experience acquired at Valve would be to then in turn advise others in terms of the video game industry as a whole. The way Valve does things is certainly... unique.

 

[Salsa]

From what I've read about Valve's endemic lack of structure, I think it would be a really bad idea for someone young and new to the industry to get thrown into that kind of environment.

Could potentially put these kids off of the industry for life.

lol

 

[Ran rp]

Not exactly sure what this is other than a forum but signed up anyway.

 

[FrostuTheNinja]

For the first time ever, I wish that I was born later. Very cool of Valve.

 

[Orca]

They stole that 'I want to make an RPG and my brothers are mean' Kickstarter girls idea!

 

[Vecks]

Valve has high school interns? I guess they'll last longer when you start'em young.

 

[dummydecoy]

I bet a lot of gaf would pay to work for Valve.