Austin is a popular game studio location. With it's muliptle colleges and built in software publishing strength, there are many game companies living and breathing the clean Austin air.
Game Companies in Austin
- Aspyr Media, Inc
- Mostly a Mac port house, they recently published Stubbs the Zombie.
- Bioware Austin
- Another MMO studio! My stars and garters, who would have guessed? Of course the news here is that Bioware has come to town.
- Breakaway Games
- Mostly in the Serious Gaming area. They are working on games for the goverment/military.
- Fizz Factor Games
- A company that is very active in the local game industry scene. They work mainly on casual/kids/licensed projects.
- Junction Point Studios
- Warren Spector's recent startup. Not much is known about this endeavor.
- Midway
- Midway's Austin studio, currently a one and a half game studio, building up to two a two game studio, from what I understand.
- NC Soft
- Richard Garriot's Massively Multiplayer game factory. Auto Assult, City of Heroes/Villans, Guild Wars and Tabula Rassa are all being built or managed out of NC Soft.
- Retro Studios
- A subsidiary of Nintendo, USA. Retro has produced both of the Gamecube Metroid games, and is working on a Metroid game for the Nintendeo Revolution system.
- Sony Online Entertainment
- Currently working on Star Wars Galaxies and a DC comics based MMO.
- Vigil Games
- Apparently another MMO developer in Austin. A subsidiary of THQ.
Austin Game Developers Association
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Heatwave Interactive - Austin, TX
game systems, play-test, and balance them. • Find ways to realize the full potential of game systems... the game and its setting and act as a living game... ... - Game-Play Engineering Lead
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Edge of Reality - Austin, TX
4+ years professional game programming experience, with experience in a leadership role Please send resume to jobs@edgeofreality.com with Game-Play Engineering... ... - Game Engine Programmer
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Multimedia Games, Inc. - Austin, TX
casino game software. Codes portion of game framework... game framework and library of existing game types for specific game functionality. Implements casino game... ... - Faculty, Game Programming Job #0910004
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Austin Community College - Austin, TX
in the area of Game Programming... Instructs students in a variety of Game Programming/Computer Science... processing), game programming, game and simulation... ... - Game Producer
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Multimedia Games, Inc. - Austin, TX
Game Producer Responsible for casino game... s game design team and is responsible for specifying game content. Creates game design proposals and game... ...
Programming Books
To get you started
Game Coding Complete
Everything you need to know about coding games, from top to bottom. Written by Austin's own Mike McShaffery.
Amazon Price: (as of 12/20/2009) 
Practical Perforce
Anytime you are working on a project with more than one person, you need scource control. Perforce is an industry standard tool. If you don't know how to use it, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
Amazon Price: $26.37 (as of 12/20/2009)
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Not how a particular language works, but what conventions work best for coding, and why. Invaluable book about the nitty gritty of putting code together.
Amazon Price: $31.49 (as of 12/20/2009)
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