Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
by lovetocode on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:45AM
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Fair enough and you are probably right. I come from the position that you can only beat a dog so long before it bites back. But I feel like this could have been prevented if developers weren’t so enamored with the idea of developing games. Yeah it’s cool but it’s not cool enough to throw your dignity away.
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Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
by hannasanarion on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:49AM
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And so you kill the dog and get another. People who want to make games are not in short supply.
Software engineering for video games is pretty darn complicated. Surely it must be hard to get hold of the next John Carmack or at least someone remotely close to that. Is demand for good talent really filled here?
The whole talk about "talent" is bullshit. Big corps don't want John Carmacks. They want replaceable, predictable drones that do what they are told to do.
Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
by TimothyBJacobs on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:24AM
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Game studios aren't filled with and don't need to be filled with hundreds of John Carmacks.
Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
by hannasanarion on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:24AM
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If your "about-to-release crunch" involves building an entire engine from scratch with no help John Carmack style, you have much bigger problems.
Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
by lovetocode on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:52AM
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Can’t argue with that.
“ I come from the position that you can only beat a dog so long before it bites back. ”
If done right you can beat the dog for a very long time and if the dog actually bites back you get rid of it and get another one.