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I get you. I was a game developer a couple of lifetimes ago. I once had to investigate and fix a bug called "HANDBAG TURNS INTO A BANANA". Never had anything li

I get you. I was a game developer a couple of lifetimes ago. I once had to investigate and fix a bug called "HANDBAG TURNS INTO A BANANA". Never had anything like that in the corp world :_(

alisonatwork 6y ago
Hang in there. We once had a bug "PRODUCT IMAGE TURNS INTO A DOG" due to some code that kept falling back to an embarrassing placeholder.
- dannywheeler 6y ago
  I think "Right-click, see spiderman" was the highlight of my career.
- rvense 6y ago
  In my very first developer job, I was creating a backend for a social media-type phone app. This was sort of a skunk works project that the founder and "Chief Innovation Officer" of a successful company wanted to do on the side, but he only had the budget for a couple of juniors. Anyway, I didn't know a lot of things, so at one point I got the test environment and production environment tangled up in the code. I don't even remember the details of this confusion and I'm not sure I'd be capable of understanding how this was possible, but the long and the short of it is that one time the boss came down and asked something like "Why am I a horse?", and the answer was that he was being logged in as a user on the test environment which had a name that was a horse pun and a horse for a profile picture. Fun times.
- monocasa 6y ago
  Had 'under strained conditions, debug console comments negatively about your mother.' A debug line someone thought wouldn't ever see the light of day.
- keyle 6y ago
  "Title name says POOP" cca. 2006
ttt0 6y ago
Reminds me of the interview with Tarn Adams from Dwarf Fortress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY
fnord77 6y ago
is it more stressful working on games than in the corp world?
- deleted 6y ago
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- BossingAround 6y ago
  Ask CDPR developers.
- skeeter2020 6y ago
  of course it's going to vary, but yes. I don't know if the new development model of "hit release date and fix everything after we sell the DLC" has made this better or worse.
- SeanBoocock 6y ago
  I have never had a job that wasn't at least games adjacent, but I expect the comparison is not that clear. There is a huge diversity of commercial game development, just as there is for commercial software development generally. On average game development is probably more stressful because: it is an entertainment product in addition to being a piece of software; the funding models for independent game developers are often project based, which can lead to a lot of instability. There are corners of game development that are more "chill" than others. Studios doing work-for-hire for other projects can build sustainable businesses. People in the "serious" game and simulation space seem to have a pretty normal work experience. Likewise shared tech teams at the biggest publishers/developers are more insulated from business variability and shifting project deadlines.
- robotnikman 6y ago
  It seems like bigger game companies push for lots of crunch and are more stressful, while smaller companies and indie dev teams are more relaxed. This is all anecdotal from interviews, news, etc that I've seen.

I get you. I was a game developer a couple of lifetimes ago. I once had to investigate and fix a bug called "HANDBAG TURNS INTO A BANANA". Never had anything like that in the corp world :_(

alisonatwork 6y ago

Hang in there. We once had a bug "PRODUCT IMAGE TURNS INTO A DOG" due to some code that kept falling back to an embarrassing placeholder.

dannywheeler 6y ago
I think "Right-click, see spiderman" was the highlight of my career.
rvense 6y ago
In my very first developer job, I was creating a backend for a social media-type phone app. This was sort of a skunk works project that the founder and "Chief Innovation Officer" of a successful company wanted to do on the side, but he only had the budget for a couple of juniors. Anyway, I didn't know a lot of things, so at one point I got the test environment and production environment tangled up in the code. I don't even remember the details of this confusion and I'm not sure I'd be capable of understanding how this was possible, but the long and the short of it is that one time the boss came down and asked something like "Why am I a horse?", and the answer was that he was being logged in as a user on the test environment which had a name that was a horse pun and a horse for a profile picture. Fun times.
monocasa 6y ago
Had 'under strained conditions, debug console comments negatively about your mother.' A debug line someone thought wouldn't ever see the light of day.
keyle 6y ago
"Title name says POOP" cca. 2006

ttt0 6y ago

Reminds me of the interview with Tarn Adams from Dwarf Fortress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY

fnord77 6y ago

is it more stressful working on games than in the corp world?

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BossingAround 6y ago
Ask CDPR developers.
skeeter2020 6y ago
of course it's going to vary, but yes. I don't know if the new development model of "hit release date and fix everything after we sell the DLC" has made this better or worse.
SeanBoocock 6y ago
I have never had a job that wasn't at least games adjacent, but I expect the comparison is not that clear. There is a huge diversity of commercial game development, just as there is for commercial software development generally. On average game development is probably more stressful because: it is an entertainment product in addition to being a piece of software; the funding models for independent game developers are often project based, which can lead to a lot of instability. There are corners of game development that are more "chill" than others. Studios doing work-for-hire for other projects can build sustainable businesses. People in the "serious" game and simulation space seem to have a pretty normal work experience. Likewise shared tech teams at the biggest publishers/developers are more insulated from business variability and shifting project deadlines.
robotnikman 6y ago
It seems like bigger game companies push for lots of crunch and are more stressful, while smaller companies and indie dev teams are more relaxed. This is all anecdotal from interviews, news, etc that I've seen.