Hey hohums, since you seem to be on the forums at the moment I have some questions concerning Riot games' Engineering team:

1. Do you guys take Mechanical Engineers or is it specifically Software Engineers?
2. How many applicants do you guys typically get for the Engineering department?
3. I can switch my major is necessary, I've only completed all my Gen Eds for the most part, but how difficult would that be? For the record I have 2 years into my degree thus far, I intend on finishing it in the next 2-3 years.
4. Is there anyway to teach myself the right programming languages for game development?

If you can answer my questions; I would be greatly appreciative . Working for a gaming company has always been a dream of mine ^.^''

Bumpage :3

Yeah I'm wondering about this too...could a MechE with coding and physics background work on the game's physics engine or some other potential project?

I'm thinking it's possible, as long as you were fluent in programming languages and computers in general.

Software engineers for the software engineering positions. We might have some Mechanical engineering people working here... although they certainly arn't doing any mechanical engineering.

Note that my degree is actually Computer Science, however I don't really see any difference between the 2.

I don't have any exact numbers. I think we get a lot for the associate positions and never enough for the senior positions. I would think that less well known game companies would get less associate resumes like we did in the beginning.

I'm only not to familiar with the US system, down under the Gen Eds are part of high school.

However you should do something that your passionate about whatever it takes. You will find yourself much more successful if you do that.

Yes. There are plenty of guides on the internet. I don't think there is one right language. It depends on what you want to write for. Do you want to write for Xbox? Maybe XNA is your choice. PC? maybe C++. Webpages? Maybe HTML 5 or flash. There is no real rule except to go out and do it and some skills will transfer across.

I would say that C++ is the most widely used language still so it may be your best bet.

Some websites
http://www.learncpp.com/
http://www.cppgameprogramming.com/
http://www.toymaker.info/Games/html/beginners.html

make Kat asthetically appealing ingame plz ty

I think so too.