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That can't be right... because I /know/ that games programmers are the best engineers, and Google doesn't make games... ;)
by jheriko 17y ago
That can't be right... because I /know/ that games programmers are the best engineers, and Google doesn't make games...
;)
- gridspy 17y agoThe best engineers willing to work in low pay, crunch environments and high staff turnover.
- chipsy 17y agoi.e. the engineers who are more interested in solving problems than in monetary incentives.
- nostrademons 17y agoThere're a bunch of ex-games-programmers at Google. One of my interviewers used to do 3D shooters and stuff before she came to Google. And Amit Patel, the co-creator of "Don't be evil" and one of the initial architects behind AdWords, runs a pretty popular game programming website.
- neilk 17y agoGoogle makes games... just not very well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lively http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lively Ok, that's a bit harsh perhaps. In its favor it was a decent idea to merge social gaming and the web, perhaps a bit ahead of its time. I could easily see 3D elements as commonplace on the web in 2012 or so. And then there's: http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ Which is the same concept as Luis von Ahn's ESP Game, only Googlified and drained of any interface elements that would make the thing actually fun.