Which, really, helps the poorer studios to retain staff, and makes it harder for the better ones to attract new staff. So, I can see an argument for some studios keeping quiet about it as a place to work (assuming they think they’ll lose more staff to better places than they’ll gain by grabbing a percent of the increaed number of incoming people), but that seems a particularly bad (“aiming to fail”) reason .

So, hopefully, you can get more attention from the local companies and get them to take some more steps to improve this stuff. Another good place to go would be the IGDA – http://igda.org – and see if you can change the local IGDA chapter from a “meets practically never, doesn’t do much” into a more constructive and effective chapter. Places with good IGDA chapters tend to benefit hugely – lots of free recruitment boosts for the local companies.

btw There is a mistake in my article Aqua Pacific morphed into Slam Productions.