Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
I’m a qa engineer so I can do the full QA cycle, although my coding experience is mostly focused on automating UI interfaces and browser applications haha.
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What hard skills do you possess, that could help assist in game development?
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MiguelItUp
Member
QA, QA Management, Social Media, and Project Management.
Ogbert
Member
What would you say you do here Bob?
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Product management, Jira Admin plus anything Atlassian based, data and telemetry. QA if need be (iv done it before in the industry).
All the boring shit essentially.
All the boring shit essentially.
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cireza
Member
Nearly 15 years of IT experience as developer, OPS, functional analyst, support and now team leader with a Lean certification.
On my free time, I am "good" enough to make by myself 8 bits games entirely (game-design, planing, coding, story, pixel-art, music etc...). The beauty of 8 bits consoles is that you can get away with average skills like me haha.
Trying to make this a more active part of my life, but the road is going to be very long lol.
On my free time, I am "good" enough to make by myself 8 bits games entirely (game-design, planing, coding, story, pixel-art, music etc...). The beauty of 8 bits consoles is that you can get away with average skills like me haha.
Trying to make this a more active part of my life, but the road is going to be very long lol.
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I can work more than 8hrs without crying.
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Tell’em Keb
Member
I’m good at MoCapp’n stupid dances. We could put them in every game we make because the kids will love it and memes are all that matter.
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AndrewRyan
Member
Programming, AI integration, containers, reproducible bug reports.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
I can identify gameplay that stinks.
StereoVsn
Member
Software and Infrastructure architecture, security design and assessment, cloud services architecture and design; implementation of these and of course normal IT stuff, such as scripting, networking, etc...
Edit: There is no way I would work in gaming industry though unless I had absolutely no other choice. Crap hours, meh salaries, and so on.
Edit: There is no way I would work in gaming industry though unless I had absolutely no other choice. Crap hours, meh salaries, and so on.
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I have no game creation skills but if there was a job for someone who made suggestions like “wouldn’t it be good if smoke came out of the exhaust/tail pipe?” Or “what if you could see people entering the stadium and finding their seats?” Or “what if the crowd reacted to a bad crash?” - that sort of detail stuff. That’s what I’d be good at. So basically being a pedant and giving the programmers more work.
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
Eons ago, I studied animation and have worked with it before switching to business. On that end:
- Concept
- Writing
- Rough Draft
- Character models / designs (if it's something like GT7)
- Animatics
On the business side:
- Marketing PR
- Consulting dev team & fanbase for effective data for adverts and appealing demos for conventions / events
- Hitting deadlines and understanding proper PR timelines. Nothing worse than over or undershooting with PR. There've been some great games which had demo trailers but ended up getting cancelled. Producing trailers isn't cheap and that could be avoided if there was any hesitation prior from the team.
Tough business no matter which area you pick. I salute those who've stuck with it and have tenure.
- Concept
- Writing
- Rough Draft
- Character models / designs (if it's something like GT7)
- Animatics
On the business side:
- Marketing PR
- Consulting dev team & fanbase for effective data for adverts and appealing demos for conventions / events
- Hitting deadlines and understanding proper PR timelines. Nothing worse than over or undershooting with PR. There've been some great games which had demo trailers but ended up getting cancelled. Producing trailers isn't cheap and that could be avoided if there was any hesitation prior from the team.
Tough business no matter which area you pick. I salute those who've stuck with it and have tenure.
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
Not sure if recruiting would assist in game development but if so, I think we know where all that sweat, grease, clown haired-type would end up working with. Keep them away from IPs which have not yet been destroyed.
3DS Max
Zbrush
Design Documentation
I take it the Maya tutorials I am sitting on have some intrinsic value - the cost of an "Animation Mentor" certificate (?) is highway robbery. Hooray for broke ass states desperate to keep "knowledge workers" from fleeing for less destitute pastures.
Zbrush
Design Documentation
I take it the Maya tutorials I am sitting on have some intrinsic value - the cost of an "Animation Mentor" certificate (?) is highway robbery. Hooray for broke ass states desperate to keep "knowledge workers" from fleeing for less destitute pastures.
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
I dont want to assist in game development. Once it becomes a job, i wouldnt want to play games anymore and id never want to lose that desire to play.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
I can Bring The coffe
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Oh, I forgot! I know uipath so I can automate a good chunk of the backend office processes as well as the QA stuff.
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Finance.
By the looks at how game companies are run into the ground, it's like most of them have no idea about money and budgets.
By the looks at how game companies are run into the ground, it's like most of them have no idea about money and budgets.
Scotty W
Member
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CuteFaceJay
Member
loved creating particle systems in unreal. I really need to find some time to get back into doing that.
C based dev for 22 years. Used to build my own engines back during my university days. I'm gonna say during the DirectX 7 days. Those times are a little fuzzy now. I've also got about a decade of leading other devs and project management skills.
I'd rather pull my own teeth than work in games Dev nowadays. I vastly prefer not working myself to the bone for something that 70-80% of the time consumers piss and moan about instantly.
I'd rather pull my own teeth than work in games Dev nowadays. I vastly prefer not working myself to the bone for something that 70-80% of the time consumers piss and moan about instantly.
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elbourreau
Member
I'm working on almost everything concerning The Bounds VR except programming, advanced sound design and music . I'm not top-notch on every department, but quite confident right now.
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
I hope this is going where I think it's going.
"WE could make a game!"
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"WE could make a game!"
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
From reading through all these posts there would appear to be enough skills to put together a small independent game studio... I assume a lot of you guys are actually in game development or maybe where at some point, if so is there a reason it's not made prominent under one's username?? It is a game site after all or is it because gamers can be simultaneously the most interesting of creatures and absolute ballbag cunt fuckers and you don't want to shine a light on yourself for the morons to be attracted too?
As for skills, I can come into a room and call everyone a cunt
As for skills, I can come into a room and call everyone a cunt
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
i arm known for my industry predictions
IAmNotFromDelaware
Member
Currently director of a development department, have experience being a Manager and team Lead. Also many years experience programming.
But all of this for software development not game development. I have always been curious if this translates well at all.
But all of this for software development not game development. I have always been curious if this translates well at all.
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