I’m always interested in hearing other’s stories and what they’re working on. Anyone care to share?

  • cowvin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been a professional software engineer in the game industry for 22 years now. I started off in school at first on Apple computers with Basic, then when I got a graphing calculator in school I started writing tools for school work and games on it all the time. After college, I wasn’t sure what sort of software I wanted to work on (dot-com era), but one of my good friends talked me into applying to some game companies. I’ve been in a bunch of different companies since then but right now I’m working on online systems for one of the biggest online games.

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      1 year ago

      How much, would you say, are the things you work on specific to games? Just trying to get a feeling for how difficult it would be to move from “general” backend engineering to backend engineering for a game.