No offence there but what would SK benefit in someone with "business experience" (this is a video game company we are talking about), psychology (again, it's a video game company...) and speech?

I am a certified technicien IT first level... I can repair most common PC problem or get the info on how to fix it, I can benefit OOO if their PC goes wrong but most of their employee are located at home, working over the internet and fixing PC via internet is hard...er

If you really want to apply for OOO you better know a thing or two about informatic...

Again no offence, it's just things I have to point out... Not that you couldn't make it into OOO office, just really unlikely with your profile and OOO business model

If you want to be taken seriously, maybe you should actually apply and submit a resume. Oh and here's a tip on that: the forums aren't the place to do that.

You can't be serious posting a job application here. No business at all will take in a job applicant from an online forums, even Mcdonalds wouldn't do so. My first concern is your experience, if you have experience, you wouldn't be posting here. My suggestion, whether you are a troll or not, is to queue up through the proper channels, everyone needs money okay?

People must stop assuming that the gaming industry are getting paid through the nose. They are not your top of the mill abstract artists who earn millions of dollars from some paint splashed onto fabric. As a company, the only way OOO's gonna get more money is to propose to its publisher, and usually it's granted in favor if OOO have to pay for more personnel, equipment, and not for the sake of "want more money". If you have learnt business, you should have understood that in the least.

As for shamanananana, psychology is well respected for game design, speech-wise, only if someone is looking for voice actors, and that takes a huge portfolio. Gaming is art in every sense, game design, literature, visual and audio are all welcome, business, economics, marketing too, but they always require the evidence to go along with it.

I left the game industry, quite bitter at F2P business models, (relatively) lower pay, and long hours. The tradeoff for such things are usually doing a job or project that you're passionate about. I figured if I was doing neither, then I should look elsewhere, and now I'm much happier for it.

If anything, it sounds more like you're going for a designer role, but those tend to be very scarce and masses of people aim for those roles. Lead designers drive the direction of entire project teams - they need to be able to balance making decisions that are fun, backing up their suggestions with how features improve the game quality or can be used to make more money (because making a new feature means allocating programmers and artists towards them), and be able to communicate their ideas. Psychology and all that might be useful in figuring out how to justify your choices to higher-ups, too.

...but can you prototype your ideas, translate between artists and programmer needs?

You also probably wouldn't be working on Spiral Knights full-time - when game companies hire it's usually because a new project is on its way.

I'm sorry to say, but using the forums to try to get into a game company for anything outside a GM application is very likely a lost cause. Heck, I have done/am currently using Java quite a bit and thought about trying for Three Rings myself in the past (when Spiral Knights was a newer project) but I would have gone through their normal application process.

Anyway, I'm starting to ramble, but having seen the darkness and gotten out, the best suggestion is for you to find a team and make your own project. Making your own projects shows you're more than just talk (in the game industry, actual ability is worth far more than degrees - I knew an Illustration major who self-taught programming and was more knowledgable + coded cleaner than CS majors I knew in college), and you can use them as talking points in an interview. Also, if your own project gets put out on market (say, if you went via iOS / app store) and actually took off, then you have extra income and BAM, you're a real indie game developer. Your own projects are your proof of yourself.

Artists, programmers, sound designers, musicians, and especially designers all need portfolio pieces - projects they've worked on with other people or on their own time to prove to potential employers that they can do what they claim.

If you've got experience in "business", "psychology", and "speech" outside of classroom hours, applying them to actual projects, then you'll know exactly how they'd tie into a real game project. Heck, I can say I know about all 3 myself, having observed my previous company, taken classes, and having done my share of writing, but having worked in the game industry and also working on my own projects on the side, I already saw practical uses for those and molded them into a "game designer" role.

¬_¬ well. Sorry if that was a little spiky, but I'm still quite bitter about the game industry. I know not all game companies have the terrible oppressive atmosphere that mine did, but ey, I hope Three Rings is an enjoyable group of people.

I won't wish you luck because I'd rather you not naively run into a wall, but here's to learning something in the process.

Talking to the community for a job in the company is not just silly, but rather unprofessional. The thread implies that you (thread creator) are asking Three Rings for a job working on projects when what you really want is a volunteer job. I would love to volunteer and collaborate with the Spiral Knights community managers, but I would send an email to Three Rings if I wanted to officially help their team. As of now, I'll stick to playing their game and trying to be a happy face.

As many others have said, you must contact Three Rings for anything to happen (you don't ask grocery shoppers for a job at the grocery store), however I will say that asking on the forums was a mistake. I would think someone well-versed in psychology would know this, but you might know something that I don't. Regardless, I wish you luck with future endeavors!

"Oh hey I wanna work for a company, better apply via the gaming forums without references and argue with other players on the thread."

Obvious troll is obvious.

-Can't respect an opinon.
-Posted on forums.
-Posts irrelevant business skills.
-Much more nonsense.

Dude. I don't think Three Rings will accept a thirteen year old.

my cv for ooo

qualities:
-good at singing in the shower
-im nice and juicy
-i know how to milk a snipe and basil
-i pack my own lunch, i wont steal any dwarf's ale
-im like doctor who, i can regenerate into a new person if you hate the current me

qualification:
-Degree in Guild Management from Knights of Almire University

(apologies for my bad trolling behaviour: Cragger-Da-Croc, i hope you are able to achieve it. goodluck! :D)

In his defense to all of those you who say he is applying on the forums... this thread isn't his application or resume. It's a thread expressing his desire to do things for OOO. So stop shooting false statements if you yourself are 13.

I must express that I am a little confused though. From what I understand, you say you want to work for OOO by giving them ideas (I'm assuming they are for Spiral Knights only). You say that you won't share those ideas with everyone so easily either. And you don't want pay. You will give them the ideas for free. So... why not just email them or something so that your ideas aren't made public but OOO still knows about them...?

As for this: But why not take someone who works for free? What do you have to lose there, really? Well... if the said person working for free was more of a hindrance to productivity than help... well I hope you get the point there. Also, if you were a boss (or manager) hiring people and someone said they would work for free, you might be a little suspicious of that person and his motives. Another aspect: From my past experience at my former place of employment, we weren't allowed to "work for free." Basically we weren't allowed to work off the clock (clock out and keep working for a while or vice versa). I'm sure it had something to do with liability/legal/regulation stuff or something like that. The point is... working for free isn't likely to happen.

http://www.threerings.net/jobs/

Two jobs currently available, but it doesn't look like any are for your skillset.

There's more to game developers than game masters, and unfortunately game masters aren't even that high on the totem pole. Although it is true that it won't be possible to get hired for a job until 18 considering OOO is an American-based company, internships do exist. That might be what he is looking for judging by his post (doesn't mention any prior experience which is almost necessary in the current industry) and the line: "I'm not really interested in pay, willing to take anything."

Bad first impression. Try again next time.

The dev team is much more valuable than the Gamemasters. They can put more food on the table than anywhere else.

You aren't the first one to do this. That really isn't enough to consider yourself ready to market the game. Do you have any new ideas to bring to the table? If so, what are they? What can you do to make the game more noticed that would be free for Three Rings?

You need to be ready and intuitive to market your product. Look at Old Spice's marketing team: they know their target audience, and are able to market to them in such a way that people not in their market can view commercials as a source of entertainment.Minecraft's explosion of popularity came from their playerbase, and videos flooded YouTube. That is marketing.

fennir, I'd like to try to talk to you not considering you an alt. please forgive me.

gaming forums are to discuss games, not application for jobs, how can you apply for a job, ect. that goes with the company. the company is not in the gaming forums, but in their site and, in lesser extenct, in the support section of the games.
that being said, this is the internet. I can say that I have leet skillz in everything. saying you have experience in certain matters is valued less than nothing. that's why there are applications for the jobs. you can't go and say "I want this work in this company because I have these experiences and this diploma". they must test you and accept you. gaming forums and support sections of them are not the place to go; how can we take seriously someone who doesn't know where to go to apply to a job nobody asked for?