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Video Game Programmer Interview - October 2007
- hhm 19y agoThere is more in the video game industry than retail. I'm a game entrepreneur and there are lots of things to be done other than retail, that get you in a better situation than it.
- jsnx 19y agoThere are casual games -- but you're not going to be working on the cool 3D stuff unless you bow to the giant studios and work 80 hours a week.
- hhm 19y agoYes, but I'm not talking about it either. I work with interesting technologies (computer vision, virtual reality, 3d, etc) for the events industry. There are lots of opportunities in games other than retail and casual.
- jsb 19y agoI used to want to be in the video game industry but I found the long and sometimes unpredictable hours a major drawback. It sounds like even he gets a little tired working the job - "It can be a lonely career."
- codeslinger 19y ago"It can be really stressful especially if there is a bug in the program. That pushes us back by almost a week." I'd love to only ever have these kinds of bugs.
- damon 19y agoI feel back for this guy, he seems really lonely and isolated. Life is too short to live like that, regardless of how much money you make.
- coffeeaddicted 19y agoI was rather surprised how much money he is making. I'm living in germany and I don't think you can get even close to such amounts in any gamecompany here. Even as lead getting above 70000$ will be hard. Also from several own applications I had the experience that game companies tended to offer usually more than 1000$ less per month than any other programming companies. Is that different in the USA? If you're a game programmer here you simply don't do it for the money.