Getting Paid to Play Games

The life of a software developer can be a hard one, but now and then you're asked to do something which makes you jump for joy like the kids from South Park when the Terence and Phillip movies comes to town. When you're boss asks you if you've ever read 'Snow Crash' (if you haven't, go read it now) with a glint in his eye followed by 'go and make our services work in a MMORPG', that's the feeling I get.