ye_olde_gamer

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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
Not the ones I've applied to. If a company can't even tell you about itself without hyperbole, why bother?
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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
Side note, but fun fact! Fortnite, the uberpopular battle royale game, is actually itself a mod of the original Fortnite (now called "Fortnite: Save the World"). Originally a tower defense game (you build structures and traps to d
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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
Only if you limit yourself to a particular kind of company, I think? I've worked as a dev for decades, but not for proper, actual tech companies... mostly a mixture of small biz and nonprofits. No two orgs were alike, even though my jo
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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
Speaking of Easy Anti Cheat, it's coming to Linux! https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-la...
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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
I think there's a slight distinction to be made between "games that have built-in low/no-code content editors" and "games that can be modded via an SDK, but you have to code". The former are good for any creati
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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
I would hate to work for a company that treats me as commodity labor, bidding for my time but none of my values or interests. That's not to say salary should be secret (dear god, no), but how cool a company is IS an important metric in
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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
Maybe let him try modding existing games? Steam's community workshop pages are thriving, especially for easily modded titles like Bethesda games. Back in the day, Warcraft III had a built-in script and level editor and people thrived o
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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
Eh, we'd probably just have kept buying Fortnite skins and never have heard about this to begin with. If nothing else, Epic managed to lower in-app commissions for small indie devs, which is a small win at least.
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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
Epic's first-party games are often a showcase / development driver for new versions of UE, though (the way Unreal, the game, first popularized UE, the engine). If Epic can't publish their own games on iOS anymore, they would
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by ye_olde_gamer 5y ago
Fortnite notwithstanding, Epic also makes the Unreal Engine, which is one of the biggest ones alongside Unity -- especially for cross-platform games. Hindering iOS development of UE will affect a lot of other game devs, both huge and indie.