WHO 's WHO ?
i just got an idea to write about the people i met in the gaming industry. This who 's who series will come out every week. So next week will be a different person.
I.ERICK WUJCIK
Okay, when i think about this, i get really embarrassed. Five months before i was called in to Ubisoft for an interview(February2006), i send out my CV to Ubisoft applying for a junior game designer position.
Then..after i waited for 2 months with no reply, i went and enrolled myself into Jiao Tong University majoring in 3D animation(live must go on).
But three months later after i started my 3D animation class(June2006), as it came to my surprise, i got an email from Ubisoft telling me that i should fill in this e-test and send it back to them. So i did. The e-test was about gaming knowledge and what is the best game ever and why, what do i have in mind about splinter cell, if i were about to make my own game, what will it be and so on.
The next day, i got a call. They called me in for interview. I was so nervous the feeling is like when you have to much caffeine in your body.
So i went to Ubisoft Shanghai and met Erick. He gave me his name card which i crushed and rolled under the table out of nervousness and he actually asking it back because he wanted to write his personal website on it! So i give it back to him..... the name card...which looked like a crumpled piece of paper...
And i was so nervous and tired. The interview feels like a hell torment and it takes so long...i started speaking German to Erick...when he asked about the adventure games title that i liked..I said...Geheimnise der druiden ?
And what is more stupid..is when he said :Tell me about this game that you wanted to create if you have the chance. (It is written on my e-test) And i started babbling about something..which i dont even know what the heck i was talking about!
Well...after that, he asked three other junior game designer to come and talk to me in the interview. They came in one by one. And i get even more frustrated...I realized that day i wrecked the whole interview.. especially its because i decided to stick with my studies..so i asked them to give me a part time job or a part time internship...But anyway, i did not get that job.
That was the only time i met Erick. Until recently when he came in to McGee's office as a guest. But i did not say hello or anything. I dont think he even remember me.
Erick was a game designer manager in Ubisoft Shanghai and currently he is working in Totally Games as a senior game designer/writer.
I cant really write a lot of things about Erick since i do not know him at all. I only met him in that 'whatever' interview. But my impression on him in that interview is that he got this friendly and warm aura of a good professor in the university. He reminds me of one of my high school art teacher who is really warm and teaches us patiently and friendly..and i skipped that class a lot boozing off playing in Far East Plaza (Singapore)..i regret that now.. But nevermind..there is nothing to late to learn if you have the willpower and self-disciplined.
Erick Wujcik Personal Homepage:
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Next week on Who 's Who : Jenova Chen