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Have you actually worked with a game engine. I'll say any day of the week game programming is harder than front end web dev
by offtop5 5y ago
Have you actually worked with a game engine. I'll say any day of the week game programming is harder than front end web dev
- johnnyanmac 5y agoI didn't take their comment that way. I saw it more in that it's not the early '00's anymore where every company had their own custom engine. you can hire devs into a company with experience in UE4 or Unity and skip a significant amount of onboarding, especially if they are hired early into a project. There are certainly hard parts, but this means you can pay junior engineers to worry about "easier" parts of the game while letting the seniors/leads worry about architecture, infrastructure, and optimization. Not too unlike a front end web dev from what I've hears. And for "street cred" I've worked in all 3 environments, unity projects, UE4 projects, and custom engines.
- offtop5 5y ago>But having devs work in Unity or Unreal to produce a game is not really all that hard. From OP. Even with an engine game dev is much harder than front end web dev. The depressed salaries are due to the amount of passion game devs have. Then again doing something in Unity is much easier than building an engine out. I credit Unity with teaching me to program.