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There's one area where EU software industry is on the cutting edge: The gaming industry. Again, the platforms are all American but Europeans know how to make k
by mrtksn 1y ago
There's one area where EU software industry is on the cutting edge: The gaming industry.
Again, the platforms are all American but Europeans know how to make kick ass games that are delightful and awe inspiring. French, Polish, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, so many legendary people are from Europe.
They should hire game developer to guide the user experience and listen to them very carefully.
- alephnerd 1y agoThe salary difference between American and European Game Devs isn't as significant as it is for other segments of SWE.
- mrtksn 1y agoWas this because the game dev salaries were low in US or high in Europe?
- alephnerd 1y agoThe former. Meanwhile, a lot of the higher value work such as in Engines tends to pay pretty high - for example, Epic Games pays SWEs and PMs in the $200-400K TC range, but this is overwhelmingly in the US. Similar story with Unity despite originally being European, but shifting to the US in the 2000s.
- veqq 1y agoLow in the US
- supportengineer 1y agoThere's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery
- anyfoo 1y agoMicrocode? Why Microcode, specifically?
- dannyobrien 1y agoIt's a quote from Snowcrash: https://profalexreid.com/2014/02/05/music-movies-microcode-and-high-speed-pizza-delivery-futureed/ https://profalexreid.com/2014/02/05/music-movies-microcode-a...
- anyfoo 1y agoAh, thanks, I missed that reference.
- PeterStuer 1y agoNot exactly correct. It is just the US studios that are failing because they are captured ideologically, and prioritise other things than making games people want to buy and play. The EU has good studios, for now, on par with the asian market, but they run the same risk as the US.