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Meta: Something funny about how HN will automatically strip "Why" from headlines (garbling legit titles) and here the mod edit to a "proper" title got set to so

by rtpg 4y ago

Meta: Something funny about how HN will automatically strip "Why" from headlines (garbling legit titles) and here the mod edit to a "proper" title got set to something with "why". Something to consider! Every game programming story like this makes me feel like game programmers are the most undervalued programmers out there. Loads of them have very little experience, are asked to build extremely complex systems on fast moving ground, and get paid peanuts to do it. I cannot imagine a system harder to put together than a game (maybe like... accounting software with a bunch of extra business rules?). Just so much stuff that can go wrong.

bob1029 4y ago
> maybe like... accounting software with a bunch of extra business rules? Can confirm. This is pretty nasty too. It's really tradeoffs all around. Personally, I enjoy working on custom/DIY game engine code to unwind from all the banking crap during the week. I have come to terms with the reality that my side projects will probably never be finished in any meaningful way, but at least I feel like I have total autonomy over some complex thing. Eventually, I may move back into game dev full time. For me it was never about the money. It is about doing something no one else is doing and having fun along the way. I think financial independence (not necessarily wealth) is a big part of not letting game dev consume your soul.