Comments on: Effective Networking (Don’t Badmouth People)

By: daphny

daphny — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:29:00 +0000

BUT JOHN ROMERO WILL FOREVER REMEMBER ME AS LOUD GIRL THAT YELLED AT HIM TO CUT HIS DAMN HAIR

and you said be memmmorrraabllleeeee

actually i guess i was nice about it, maybe
maybe
perhaps

im such a nice lady

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By: Student question: anonymous blogging

Student question: anonymous blogging — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:20:08 +0000

[...] It really depends on how you go about criticizing a game. I shouldn’t even have to say this, but just in case: don’t be a complete idiot and say things like “Madden sucks, I can’t believe so many people buy it” or “anyone who plays Farmville is an idiot” or whatever. Those are so obviously wrong I won’t spend any more time talking about why you shouldn’t write things like that. I’ve already written about why you shouldn’t badmouth people. [...]

By: Max Nichols

Max Nichols — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:59:27 +0000

Badmouthing people in general is something that should be avoided in an even remotely public setting. I cannot think of a single instance where vitriol will help a situation, whether it’s in a networking event or (god forbid) within a dev team. Especially in an industry like ours, which is often ego-driven, always small, and filled with (usually harmless) gossip and info-sharing.

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Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:54:58 +0000

[...] thread on Twitter recently. It is a prime example of how to be an ungracious person and a how to badmouth people and be that guy. He’s an indie developer with serious entitlement issues. You should [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:41:19 +0000

Update, I feel into this trap again after having some bad experiences inside an organization, it really detracts from you as a person as well as runs a risk. Then again I have a friend who worked with me in design, and he is just one of those guys who loves to talk shit about everyone, its like a sport for him. Ironically, he plays politics much better than I did.

By: Mbinae

Mbinae — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:46:00 +0000

My question is: What’s wrong with people who constantly badmouth others? Seriously, there are people like that.

By: Brian Shurtleff

Brian Shurtleff — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:33:00 +0000

Also, it should go without saying, but people should watch how they portray themselves online, including what they say about people.

Game industry people, tech-savvy people that they are, are very adept at finding things people write about them online.

In some ways this can actually be a benefit for networking, as it can lead to interesting ways to start a conversation. Once I had written about someone and he had found my blog entry about him and replied with a comment - I ended up meeting him a few days later and joke with him about the experience.

But writing about someone in the game industry once also nearly got me in trouble when they found what I had written about them. Luckily she had a good sense of humor about it at the time, but I felt really bad that something I had said wasn't nearly as anonymous as I had thought and had nearly hurt someone.

By: Patrick Dugan

Patrick Dugan — Sun, 21 May 2006 20:23:00 +0000

I almost fell into that trap my first GDC. I think a lot of this bad mouthing comes from reading negative things about someone without having met them. I had this impression of Cliff Bleszinski that he was a vain glorious FPS monger who offered nothing progressive to the industry. When I met him after the game design challenge, and talked a bit about social gameplay and storytelling and all that jazz, I realized he’s actually very interested in progressive design, but he also happens to have a really sweet day-job (which seems to be the case for much of the talent in the industry).

So my answer, if you’ve got an urge to bad mouth somebody, go meet them, you might find they’re really pretty cool. Like Romero, I’m sure he’s a really cool guy, even if his design track record isn’t exactly sterling.