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As someone who's put a lot of hours in Factorio, I totally agree with the article! I kinda guessed what it was gonna say before reading it. My coworkers and I
by arthens 6y ago
As someone who's put a lot of hours in Factorio, I totally agree with the article! I kinda guessed what it was gonna say before reading it.
My coworkers and I played a lot of Factorio in the past and we always joked about it being like a programming job. I even had a trello board for the largest base I ever worked on (I never finished it)
- zerr 6y agoMay I ask - was your day [programming] job really boring? Otherwise, I don't get why a programmer would spend time on this game.
- MPSimmons 6y agoI'm not the parent, but it's nice to deal with an environment where the stakes are low, and I can afford to play. In my day job, I can't often implement greenfield solutions and play with systems as toys without consequence.
- opnitro 6y agoOne thing that I like about these style of games is that they subtract the fiddly parts of programming that I don't find particularly enjoyable: things like dependency management, fiddly environment details, differing compiler versions screwing things up. This is because, of course, it's not real and so doesn't have to deal with the messiness of the real world.
- Danieru 6y agoMy main job is programming video games, not boring at all. Even for us Factorio is a perfect addiction. So much so our main game is a train tycoon version of factory automation.
- zerr 6y agoWell, in your case, researching about competitors makes sense :)