This was awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk … Which is no surprise, as its a talk about how modern software is such an overcomplex high-level sluggish mess and obviously I agree 100%. Its by @Jonathan_Blow All coders plz watch,
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I think you're underestimating the types of jobs out there. Very few people need a game engine written from scratch vs trying to wrangle some crappily performing Javascript app. For smaller companies at least, they're fine with less technical prowess and more wrangling skill.
I mean, I know how much tech leads make at AAA game companies, and it is a lot. You don't get that job if you just do C# in Unity.
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Agreed, but the reality is that a more significant portion of the "games industry" isn't AAA at all. Its small/medium firms servicing all sorts of fields, especially around certain parts of the UK. I suspect it's true for many parts of the world too.
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and then again, I make more than a AAA company tech lead just doing wanky boring Java code in another industry altogether. So there is that, too.
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'principal programmer' at activision earns $165,000. prob bonuses too. Snr software engineer at valve earns $152-470,000, according to this: https://www.loveforgames.com/salary/results.php …
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The half million figure is ... doubtful. Otherwise, reckon I'm on a par with the Activision one. And I do 36hrs a week, period, and take 30 days holiday a year. There's a reason I've never been so daft as to want to be in the games industry for real.
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also let's not forget I live in England
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I think it’s more that students want the shortest path to the game in their head, when what they need to learn is the basics of writing game code. Making a iPhone game engine from first principles in C was the most valuable thing I did in college for my career.
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Yeah, basically we get em to make a game + engine from scratch using GL. Also teach them hardware and low level programming. But there's always more you could cover and it never feels like it's enough. We teach across platforms and API's and languages too.
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There are maybe half a dozen AAA companies in the UK and many many thousand companies doing work-for-hire at the 6-12 employee size. Not saying I don't think we should value low level skill, but I understand students making that case.
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Actually, half a dozen is maybe a bit low. But probably less than 20. UK is small, with a ton of small companies. Lots making games for other sectors like education or heritage or advertizing. Fast turnover > tech prowess for those people generally.
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