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I think they mean there are way more 20-somethings now than there were in the 90s so proportionally over the growth of the industry older developers are natural
by meheleventyone 3y ago
I think they mean there are way more 20-somethings now than there were in the 90s so proportionally over the growth of the industry older developers are naturally going to be underrepresented.
- bluedino 3y agoI'm not so sure. Go back to the 70's and 80's. The creator of Pacman was 25. David Crane was still in his 20's when he started Activision. Trip Hawkins was 29 when he started Activision. Will Wright started at 24. Mark Turmell (NBA Jam, Smash TV) was hired at Midway when he was 26 and was selling games as a teenager. Miyamoto joined Nintendo at 25. A huge amount of these guys were having games published when they were teens.
- meheleventyone 3y agoI think you’ve misunderstood what people are talking about.
- LanceH 3y agoThere are way more 20 somethings entering directly into tech now than in the 90's. In the 90's something like computer science was much smaller. Other nearby disciplines were nowhere near as computer oriented as they are now. And people outside of that didn't have the internet-can-teach-you-anything as a resource. That all changed in the late 90's as the whole population came online.
- meheleventyone 3y agoYes that’s what I’m saying.
- LanceH 3y agoI think I put my reply in the wrong place...yes, we agree.