Darcy Sandall

When people ask me whether I'm front end or back end I launch into this whole "so what I do is like making games so I work on a lot of visual stuff, but I also handle graphics optimization and networking protocol stuff, so I wanna say full stack (?), but also I do art for assets"

And then there's "what do you do for your project" question and that spirals into "on top of coding I do a lot of pitching + raising awareness, also UX, also I spend a lot of time reading papers, also demoing all day every day, also documentation, also Hololens hardware stuff?"

Working at an indie company: "What type of programming do you do?" Me: "Uh, all of it."

Legit question though, is there a sufficiently informative + concise way to answer this? I usually preface with "it's kinda like game dev" but I feel like that still confuses people

I'm not really sure. I normally answer: 'I'm on a project with 2 programmers so we do a little bit of everything'. It's hard when your role isn't a clear specific job. But most people I interact with professionally are also indies so they know what it's like.