RE: Help me with my new website!
January 26, 2018 at 12:29 am
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2018 at 12:40 am by bennyboy.)
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This is truth. I couldn't get hired in a game company in a million years. For me to succeed, I'll have to either completely design games on my own, or head an indie team. The good news is that some of the simplest games are now extremely popular and quite profitable. I now have a couple dozen English students whose parents are begging for me to open coding classes, so they can learn to do what I've already learned to do. Even though I just released a 6-level alpha, the students really took to it and compete to get best times.
I have to be honest-- I wouldn't want to be a professional coder for a big company. Do I really want to spend a month of my life optimizing path tracing routines because someone has added a double-jump powerup or something? I mean-- talk about taking an exciting hobby and turning it into a soul-sucking slave gang.
Nah. . . I'd much rather work on projects that I can handle myself. There's still joy to be had in computing, but I don't think much of it will be found in big companies.
This is truth. I couldn't get hired in a game company in a million years. For me to succeed, I'll have to either completely design games on my own, or head an indie team. The good news is that some of the simplest games are now extremely popular and quite profitable. I now have a couple dozen English students whose parents are begging for me to open coding classes, so they can learn to do what I've already learned to do. Even though I just released a 6-level alpha, the students really took to it and compete to get best times.
I have to be honest-- I wouldn't want to be a professional coder for a big company. Do I really want to spend a month of my life optimizing path tracing routines because someone has added a double-jump powerup or something? I mean-- talk about taking an exciting hobby and turning it into a soul-sucking slave gang.
Nah. . . I'd much rather work on projects that I can handle myself. There's still joy to be had in computing, but I don't think much of it will be found in big companies.
