Hi, my name is Leandro Wainberg, I'm 22 and I'm from Argentina (in South America, just in case). I'm on my 4th year of 'Licenciatura en Informatica' (a 5-year grade degree in Computer Science) on one of the best universities of my country (we have a great public education system, so we don't have to pay for going to university). We don't have C++ classes here, instead we learn Java, Pascal, Smalltalk, C, PHP, HTML. I've done small-medium sized final projects with all these languages. My goal is to become a professional game programmer (I like gameplay and AI programming), so I have to study on my own. I already have a good understanding of C++ (I've read 'Accelerated C++', 'C++ for Game Programmers' and currently reading 'Effective C++') although I don't have a demo yet. I'm also learning C# and XNA on my own. I'm making a 2D game, a Worms clone (I think I have the knowledge, I just need the time to finish it). After finishing this game, I'm planning to make a top-view car racing game in C++. Well, that was a long introduction :P Here's my situation: There are some game-development companies in Buenos Aires. Most of them make mobile games, and some console games (although mostly XBox Live, WiiWare, etc). I don't live in Buenos Aires, I live in a city about 60km away (1 hour by bus, 40 minutes by car), so I can't start working there until I get my degree. I'm currently working at a third-party company doing QA for Electronic Arts, in my city, as an internship, 4hs/day. They offered me a full-time job, but I prefer the internship to be able to attend the classes. Anyway, I wanted to do an internship abroad, but I've read that companies don't hire foreign interns... I don't care if it's on USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, etc, I just want to leave my country for a few months :P Should I finish my two planned games and insist on sending my CV looking for internships? I found that Codemasters is looking for localization QA for spanish language. I believe that's a good opportunity, what do you think? thanks!

Hi Leandro.
Someone asked a similar question on IGDA just recently. Read THIS.

My reply.

I know you already answered, yaustar, I just wanted more opinions :)

thanks Tom!

Quote: Original post by Master-Blaster
I know you already answered, yaustar, I just wanted more opinions :)
thanks Tom!

He wasn't necessarily posting the link to that other site for your benefit. Lots of people ask this question, and if they find this forum and not that other one, now they get the benefit of the link he posted.
And you're welcome for the link to the yet other forum where this topic was asked.