Hi everyone, My name is Chance and I am a Systems Designer who is working towards landing their first role in the industry. I am currently looking to form new connections, and try to be more active within our game dev community. I definitely struggle with networking! I often find it intimidating, and struggle to find the right way to convey my message. I'd love to give feedback to others on their work, and receive as much feedback as possible on my own. Really excited to meet everyone!

@Jakub Kalus Hi Jacob! Getting ghosted stinks, I keep track of all the jobs I apply for and it feels like at least 60% you'll hear nothing from and another 20% are automated emails. My best advice is to keep pushing through and applying. When you do eventually get written emails, or even automated rejection emails make sure you are replying to them. I've been making a real effort to try to ask for advice/feedback through these rejection emails. I rarely hear anything back, but when I do it's not only encouraging but incredibly helpful.

I spoke to an alumni from my college some months back and he recommended to me to move towards more advanced systems, and build things that relate to the companies you want to work for. I am currently working towards this by building an arcade fps weapons system similar to something you'd see in a COD or Battlefield title. That is still a work in progress however, but should be done within the next week. My current hero project is my college capstone game where I made a number of different systems including a wave based game mode, some enemy variants, parts of the map, and a weapons system that was very simple compared to what I am currently working on. Here is a link to the page about it on my portfolio: https://www.chance-richardson.com/work-1/3rd-person-platformer-project-runway-kc665-bdt4z-kjmhb-twr22