Game Studios timings in Karachi?

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Yo guys anybody can tell me what timings do game studios follow? like is it the proper 9-5 or do studios also work till night starting from 2 or 3 in the afternoon? I'm currently studying in 6th semester and our Uni sucks so hard man, i hardly go to Uni but i still have to show my face every now and then. So here I am wasted at home, thinking about joining a studio if they could select me but the main problem is what about the days i'll have to show up at Uni?

My friends tell me to just apply and tell your conditions afterwards and I'm like what if they get angry like I should have told them sooner or something like that xD Dunno, don't have a single clue to how this effin society works man. Sad lyf :(
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Whatever happened to you guys trying to get in touch with dem studios tho? did it work?
 

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Yo guys anybody can tell me what timings do game studios follow? like is it the proper 9-5 or do studios also work till night starting from 2 or 3 in the afternoon? I'm currently studying in 6th semester and our Uni sucks so hard man, i hardly go to Uni but i still have to show my face every now and then. So here I am wasted at home, thinking about joining a studio if they could select me but the main problem is what about the days i'll have to show up at Uni?

My friends tell me to just apply and tell your conditions afterwards and I'm like what if they get angry like I should have told them sooner or something like that xD Dunno, don't have a single clue to how this effin society works man. Sad lyf :(
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Whatever happened to you guys trying to get in touch with dem studios tho? did it work?
[MENTION=66268]what[/MENTION] timings do game studios follow
To my best knowledge it is mostly from 9 to 6 PM (1 hr lunch break) if from Mon to Fri. 8 hrs/day = 40 hrs/week
@Joining studio with uni
I will recommend same, apply to a studio and then tell them you will work part time. And you can manage your part time work in different set of a day
It can be 9 to 1 pm or 3 to 7pm (whatever suits your uni schedule)
[MENTION=10138]whatever[/MENTION] happened to you guys trying to get in touch with dem studios tho? did it work?
I am waiting for the web page of developers to be ready. Dint get any update after last conversation.

Will follow up today.
 

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@what timings do game studios follow
To my best knowledge it is mostly from 9 to 6 PM (1 hr lunch break) if from Mon to Fri. 8 hrs/day = 40 hrs/week
@Joining studio with uni
I will recommend same, apply to a studio and then tell them you will work part time. And you can manage your part time work in different set of a day
It can be 9 to 1 pm or 3 to 7pm (whatever suits your uni schedule)
@whatever happened to you guys trying to get in touch with dem studios tho? did it work?
I am waiting for the web page of developers to be ready. Dint get any update after last conversation.

Will follow up today.
what studios will understand this?

I talked to many guys and they said we dont prefer students bcz we dont wanna work with them at all
 

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what studios will understand this?

I talked to many guys and they said we dont prefer students bcz we dont wanna work with them at all
Yup same my friend asked one Studio for arrangements in timing and they said either do full 9-5 or don't xD Most people don't agree to part time especially studios because they want to hire a person on a "job" not "internship" i guess.
I dunno man sometimes the gap between the university and professional job is so big it really stands clear, then they job guys are like we want a fresh undergraduate who has like 5 years experience :lol:
 

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Yup same my friend asked one Studio for arrangements in timing and they said either do full 9-5 or don't xD Most people don't agree to part time especially studios because they want to hire a person on a "job" not "internship" i guess.
I dunno man sometimes the gap between the university and professional job is so big it really stands clear, then they job guys are like we want a fresh undergraduate who has like 5 years experience :lol:
same , I am so much desperate just bcz of my career life , 99% of employers simply say that u r student , either stop studying or stop asking about jobs , the remaining 1% where I agreed to work full time , as I am already working full time , but I wanna join the field related job , I am ready to work full time , but the thing is they u are student , first go do this , go do that , we already got so many ppls that are learning in our office , hum ne apna dimag ni khapana this and that stuff , and they only take girls for internships and stuff , baki boys ko kahaniayan sunanay lag jaty hein ,

now m so depressed that I want to change my career now , I am planning for MBA if this will be the future of IT in pakistan -_-
 

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same , I am so much desperate just bcz of my career life , 99% of employers simply say that u r student , either stop studying or stop asking about jobs , the remaining 1% where I agreed to work full time , as I am already working full time , but I wanna join the field related job , I am ready to work full time , but the thing is they u are student , first go do this , go do that , we already got so many ppls that are learning in our office , hum ne apna dimag ni khapana this and that stuff , and they only take girls for internships and stuff , baki boys ko kahaniayan sunanay lag jaty hein ,

now m so depressed that I want to change my career now , I am planning for MBA if this will be the future of IT in pakistan -_-
I think like 80% of the students here face depression at young age wese b xD MBA is good i think, MBA + anything in CS you can go towards Business Analyst side.
 

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I think like 80% of the students here face depression at young age wese b xD MBA is good i think, MBA + anything in CS you can go towards Business Analyst side.
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OMG = 80% of the students here face depression at young age

Okay I feel now this is serious issue.
1. How about you work at University in a gaming lab? Do you have by any means any Prof./Lecturer to offer such courses and a gaming lab? IF not your university some other institute in Karachi.
2. IF not University then how about freelance projects (to gain experience in game dev)?
3. Bring all your desperate and motivated friends together and start your own Indie game studio at Home? (3-4 max ppl and you are good to go fora full mobile game)

See one should always come up with the things they have in hand (living in Pak).
Discipline is the key to success - the best thing about game dev is you dont need to depend on others anymore (This is era of free game engines and assets).
There is a huge bundle of tutorials, lessons, free assets, project code and what not on internet.
All you need is motivation and idea to start from somewhere.

IF you are thinking about working part time in a studio, that means you have free time :) (If its not only money thing?)
TIME = Which most of us dont have right now and cant make our own games (We are working for others )

IF you need guidelines we can provide here (If you ask specific questions, tag me)

Cheers
 

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I have a studio on indiedb, never completed any project bcz beech me hi log chor k dorr jaty hien project, n m from fsd, means very less gaming trend here == very less interest in games development , m fucked up , so why I dont see any future
 

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@puppet

OMG = 80% of the students here face depression at young age

Okay I feel now this is serious issue.
1. How about you work at University in a gaming lab? Do you have by any means any Prof./Lecturer to offer such courses and a gaming lab? IF not your university some other institute in Karachi.
2. IF not University then how about freelance projects (to gain experience in game dev)?
3. Bring all your desperate and motivated friends together and start your own Indie game studio at Home? (3-4 max ppl and you are good to go fora full mobile game)

See one should always come up with the things they have in hand (living in Pak).
Discipline is the key to success - the best thing about game dev is you dont need to depend on others anymore (This is era of free game engines and assets).
There is a huge bundle of tutorials, lessons, free assets, project code and what not on internet.
All you need is motivation and idea to start from somewhere.

IF you are thinking about working part time in a studio, that means you have free time :) (If its not only money thing?)
TIME = Which most of us dont have right now and cant make our own games (We are working for others )

IF you need guidelines we can provide here (If you ask specific questions, tag me)

Cheers
1) What? Gaming lab? xD I pay 24k per semester (KU, UBIT) . We can't even use our computer labs properly, like every time you go in a lab, either they eating halwa pori, or they say its namaz break :lol:

2) Never tried joining a freelance team "online" cuz of communication barriers and i suck at socializing. But i tried joining Fiverr and adding gigs like i can "Code/help in Projects assignments" NEVER GOT ANY RESPONSE. And i have seen plenty of gigs like these running fairly well so i dunno, freelancing never works for me.

3) I think 5-10% of the students here are interested in Video Game Dev. Never found anybody in my friends who was interested in game dev. Only have 1 friend and we practice on different software (unity, gamemaker, rpg maker etc) that's it. You can check our work in the links in signature xD We did it when we were in Matric/Inter, the period when we were mostly free

I've always wanted to make a game of myself, so I've worked solo and together with that one friend, but we ditch it in the middle every-time. The thing is we don't want to create a mobile game like flappy bird or something, we always want to go for a story oriented one. The consequence is Story oriented ones are obviously a little bigger and demand a great deal of devotion and time which we aren't able to give "consistently" because we also have to study Uni courses and projects. Last semester i had to give 5 projects. They also demand some custom assets which you won't be able to find on the net easily, or they won't fit your game theme.

It may sound like excuses but I know myself, i need a proper environment to force me to do work I am not interested in like "mobile games". OR i need like full free time so i can focus on my game alone in which I am interested in. There is a student in our depart and he had an year back cuz he didn't come to Uni at all. He was focusing on making a game and has won the microsoft Imagine Cup for that as well. So the thing is game dev requires time and devotion badly and consistently.
 

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[MENTION=42632]EternalBlizzard[/MENTION] if you want to work with me? maybe? we can create indie projects and do stuff ?
 

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1) What? Gaming lab? xD I pay 24k per semester (KU, UBIT) . We can't even use our computer labs properly, like every time you go in a lab, either they eating halwa pori, or they say its namaz break :lol:

2) Never tried joining a freelance team "online" cuz of communication barriers and i suck at socializing. But i tried joining Fiverr and adding gigs like i can "Code/help in Projects assignments" NEVER GOT ANY RESPONSE. And i have seen plenty of gigs like these running fairly well so i dunno, freelancing never works for me.

3) I think 5-10% of the students here are interested in Video Game Dev. Never found anybody in my friends who was interested in game dev. Only have 1 friend and we practice on different software (unity, gamemaker, rpg maker etc) that's it. You can check our work in the links in signature xD We did it when we were in Matric/Inter, the period when we were mostly free

I've always wanted to make a game of myself, so I've worked solo and together with that one friend, but we ditch it in the middle every-time. The thing is we don't want to create a mobile game like flappy bird or something, we always want to go for a story oriented one. The consequence is Story oriented ones are obviously a little bigger and demand a great deal of devotion and time which we aren't able to give "consistently" because we also have to study Uni courses and projects. Last semester i had to give 5 projects. They also demand some custom assets which you won't be able to find on the net easily, or they won't fit your game theme.

It may sound like excuses but I know myself, i need a proper environment to force me to do work I am not interested in like "mobile games". OR i need like full free time so i can focus on my game alone in which I am interested in. There is a student in our depart and he had an year back cuz he didn't come to Uni at all. He was focusing on making a game and has won the microsoft Imagine Cup for that as well. So the thing is game dev requires time and devotion badly and consistently.
I understand all your points, they are valid being a student in Pakistan specially in IT.
How about taking an initiative for change and make your own work environment.

Unfortunately, we have trained our-self to the environment conditions and the 'DANDA system'.
When you have experienced the first thing aint working (Game studio part time job)
You can give the same amount of time to your home office.
All you need is your own free space, a system, a neat and clean desk with no other distractions in that room.

Not interested in mobile games?

One has to start from something. (Kick off milestone)
Okay develop something for PC (steam)
In game dev, it doesn't matter how big /small you should just start developing.
A small game published always help in knowing the process and pitching your idea in-front of a world.

This is all I can suggest as when other things aren't in control you can at least do what you have in HAND (STAY MOTIVATED).

Cheers,
Asema
 

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Hmm I'll try thanks for the encouraging words :D I just felt like i wanted to do a job after seeing like half of my class doing jobs in software houses :s
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Yar I think i'll restart working on that RPG maker game again. Is semester break. I need to write a tactical battle system first wo main thing he. What will you do?
 

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Hmm I'll try thanks for the encouraging words :D I just felt like i wanted to do a job after seeing like half of my class doing jobs in software houses :s
@puppet
Yar I think i'll restart working on that RPG maker game again. Is semester break. I need to write a tactical battle system first wo main thing he. What will you do?
M wasting my all the creativity , behind searching job , even mene JS , .net , php programming k liay b try kara k 1k per month pe hi rakh lo , kisi ne ni job di ,

isi liay study b waste ho rai he job k peechay :(
 

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M wasting my all the creativity , behind searching job , even mene JS , .net , php programming k liay b try kara k 1k per month pe hi rakh lo , kisi ne ni job di ,

isi liay study b waste ho rai he job k peechay :(
Bhai just try and move out of fsd if everything's failing. You can't really stay with your family forever, you have to give something up to achieve something it's the law this universe is based on.
 

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Bhai just try and move out of fsd if everything's failing. You can't really stay with your family forever, you have to give something up to achieve something it's the law this universe is based on.
Uar mene apnay lhr , isb n khi k sab doston ko bola hua he k koi job shob dhond do n koi hostel b kareeb me ho tu batao , i gotta move in :( koi help hi ni kr rha
 

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Uar mene apnay lhr , isb n khi k sab doston ko bola hua he k koi job shob dhond do n koi hostel b kareeb me ho tu batao , i gotta move in :( koi help hi ni kr rha
You are again depending on your friends, try to do things yourself. I bet no one will go out and search hostels/jobs for you, just take a bit of a help from your friends wherever you want to go don't entirely depend on them.

P.S i think we should take this to VM as it's getting offtopic.
 

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You are again depending on your friends, try to do things yourself. I bet no one will go out and search hostels/jobs for you, just take a bit of a help from your friends wherever you want to go don't entirely depend on them.

P.S i think we should take this to VM as it's getting offtopic.
Hostel tu yar banda mokay pe dhond leta he , masla ye he k job kiasay dhondi jay other city me?

I meqn fsd me mene jitny software house thy sab pe ja k bisiti krva li hui he almost sab ab kuch ni bacha , tu lhr ya kisi aur city kaisay jaon? Online ni mill ra kuch, online jitnay log hien job post kri hui wo experience mangty hien even k hamara resume b ni dekhty hongay , due to large number of submission
 

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Our timings are from 8am to 5pm , but we seniors usually leave office between 7pm-8pm because of the unfinished work ( few people come late in morning so they leave late too ) . Others leave late because they play patti , CS , Xbox waghera & wait for the heavy traffic to open up

Regarding part-time issue , we do hire people who are in their last semester & can work part-time/half days . Even I was hired in the start of my last semester & was giving half-days at the office by bunking the classes after 12pm - 1pm . I talked to my teachers & they told me we will adjust your attendance somehow so they cooperated & it worked for me

We are expanding the work in Karachi & have opened up another work-space in the same building. Right now we are the biggest game dev team in Karachi so if anyone can relocate to Khi then send me the CVs
 
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Our timings are from 8am to 5pm , but we seniors usually leave office between 7pm-8pm because of the unfinished work ( few people come late in morning so they leave late too ) . Others leave late because they play patti , CS , Xbox waghera & wait for the heavy traffic to open up

Regarding part-time issue , we do hire people who are in their last semester & can work part-time/half days . Even I was hired in the start of my last semester & was giving half-days at the office by bunking the classes after 12pm - 1pm . I talked to my teachers & they told me we will adjust your attendance somehow so they cooperated & it worked for me

We are expanding the work in Karachi & have opened up another work-space in the same building. Right now we are the biggest game dev team in Karachi so if anyone can relocate to Khi then send me the CVs
What are the requirements to join u guys ? In last semester?
 

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Our timings are from 8am to 5pm , but we seniors usually leave office between 7pm-8pm because of the unfinished work ( few people come late in morning so they leave late too ) . Others leave late because they play patti , CS , Xbox waghera & wait for the heavy traffic to open up

Regarding part-time issue , we do hire people who are in their last semester & can work part-time/half days . Even I was hired in the start of my last semester & was giving half-days at the office by bunking the classes after 12pm - 1pm . I talked to my teachers & they told me we will adjust your attendance somehow so they cooperated & it worked for me

We are expanding the work in Karachi & have opened up another work-space in the same building. Right now we are the biggest game dev team in Karachi so if anyone can relocate to Khi then send me the CVs
Ok i have heard from my seniors that, 4th year in UBIT is pretty meh, the teachers don't care about attendances and tell you to go do jobs. So if it seems pretty chill, I'll hit you up together with my another friend [MENTION=8285]Solid Link[/MENTION] when we reach 7th sem, Currently in 6th. Thanks for the info

EDIT:- Oh and I've always wanted to ask this, like I am familiar with Unity but im pretty much dependant on the internet. Whenever i work I must have its online documentation open to keep checking the functionality available to me and i also visit sites like stack overflow and unity's forums pretty much every now and then because somebody already had those problems and the answers are there :D So does this count like a kinda negative point for me depending on the net?
 
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