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You know what the best part about the game industry is? Leaving it.
by yogabzzz 12y ago
You know what the best part about the game industry is? Leaving it.
- dictum 12y agoAnd you know what the best part about leaving the game industry is? Writing a long open-letter blog post explaining why you're leaving the game industry. Plus follow-up posts responding to other game developers.
- munificent 12y agoIt's like owning a boat. The best days of a game developer's life are the day they enter the industry and the day they leave.
- api 12y agoI've heard the best thing with boats is to rent one. That way you get a first day, a middle day, and a last day, then you give the boat back and go home. Maybe you could intern briefly in the game industry and have the same experience?
- yogabzzz 12y ago"If it flies, floats or fucks - rent it." That's the saying. Also, I wouldn't recommend anyone join the game industry for any period of time. I've never been in it, but I know 7-8 developers and they're all usually miserable and stressed out. Not only that, they make about 60% of what I make and they have no equity or reasonable vacation schedule. It seems to be a very rollercoastery industry, where one moment people love what you made and then hate it the next. If you're a developer, you're basically a tool to implement the nonsense game designers come up with and your project manager is a cross between Gordon Ramsay and Tim Gunn. It sounds like a nightmare.