Mixing business with pleasure...
Mark turns his hobby into a career COMPUTER crazy teenager Mark
Jones has turned his favourite hobby into a £10,000-a-year career. For just four years after getting his first home computer. 17-year-old Mark works for the largest electronic games manufacturers in the UK.
Mark of Longland Road, Northampton spends his working hours designing the dazzling graphics for video garnes which baffle most adults but keep children amused for hours.
"I must be one of the luckiest people In the country to be paid for something I've enjoyed doing for a long time.” said the former Northampton School for Boys pupil Mark's love-affair with computer graphics began when he was 14 and his parents bought him a Sinclair Spectrum. 
Mark Jones (May 1988) at the controls of his computer
Within months the talented teenager had mastered the art of producing drawings on screen and his rapid rise to success was under way.
He pul together a demonstration tape of his graphics and sent it to Manchester based Ocean who immediately offered him a job.
He was the youngest person to have joined the Ocean design team shortly after his 16th birthday.
Now two of his games -Wizball and Gryaor third. Vindicator goes on sale in June.
And his success has already attracted the attention of BBC presenter Keith Chegwln who is tn interview Mark for a BBC programme on teenagers in highly paid Jobs.
The six month design Job which results in a video game starts in planning meetings where ideas are discussed by the team.
Promising “A couple of ideas will sound promising and after we've discussed improvements the designer produces a story board which shows all the characters and the movements be wants built in.” said Mark.
“Then I have to produce the story board on the screen and we can often make still more improvements as we go along until the finished game is ready to be played.”
But will his love affair with video names wear off as lie gets, older?
“I can't say for curtain whether I'll stilt be doing this when I'm 40 but who knows.” said Mark.
There are older people on the staff who said they couldn't imagine doing the job five years later but they're still with us.
“At the moment I am quite happy earning a good salary lor what to me is a hobby anyway.”
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