Reputation from Skjalg - Page 4

Skjalg got a reaction from Sjonsson in Do you enjoy your job in the games industry? August 15, 2014

I'm not so sure anymore.

And I don't really know why. I'm starting to think that I'm just making up reasons because I've felt like this at my two last employments.

On one side, I should have felt really fortunate to be working at my previous job, because I learned so much from the other two programmers. On another side there was way too much work and you always had to do everything from scratch, which means there was a lot of "reinventing the wheel" going on.

At my current job, I should feel really fortunate to be working there as well, because I am finally being able to learn about working on a game post-launch (and I dont mean just DLC). Stuff like implementing all the stuff we wanted to do, but couldn't do before the release date. Tweaking the funnel. Looking more in depth at monetization. Learning about ads and funnels and everything that is basically not just gameplay or gui programming. On the other hand the pay is shit and my co workers dont work as much as me. My salary now is the same as it was when I got out of the university. So basically my salary has been standing still for many many years. People I went to class with is earning twice as much as me. And work shorter days...

And I am not creating games I want to play. Last I did that was with warby. warby made me believe in his game vision. And I was excited to put in 16 hours a da to make it happen. And lately, I've come to terms with the fact that since I have a responsibility to my wife and two kids, I can't move abroad and get a job at the two places who makes games I want to make. Valve or Blizzard.

But who am I kidding, I could never get a job at valve. Maybe blizzard... But my wife would never let us move.
meh.. If the company I work for now also folds, then I will probably have to make a huge life decision...

Skjalg got a reaction from Corwin in Do you enjoy your job in the games industry? August 14, 2014

I'm not so sure anymore.

And I don't really know why. I'm starting to think that I'm just making up reasons because I've felt like this at my two last employments.

On one side, I should have felt really fortunate to be working at my previous job, because I learned so much from the other two programmers. On another side there was way too much work and you always had to do everything from scratch, which means there was a lot of "reinventing the wheel" going on.

At my current job, I should feel really fortunate to be working there as well, because I am finally being able to learn about working on a game post-launch (and I dont mean just DLC). Stuff like implementing all the stuff we wanted to do, but couldn't do before the release date. Tweaking the funnel. Looking more in depth at monetization. Learning about ads and funnels and everything that is basically not just gameplay or gui programming. On the other hand the pay is shit and my co workers dont work as much as me. My salary now is the same as it was when I got out of the university. So basically my salary has been standing still for many many years. People I went to class with is earning twice as much as me. And work shorter days...

And I am not creating games I want to play. Last I did that was with warby. warby made me believe in his game vision. And I was excited to put in 16 hours a da to make it happen. And lately, I've come to terms with the fact that since I have a responsibility to my wife and two kids, I can't move abroad and get a job at the two places who makes games I want to make. Valve or Blizzard.

But who am I kidding, I could never get a job at valve. Maybe blizzard... But my wife would never let us move.
meh.. If the company I work for now also folds, then I will probably have to make a huge life decision...

Skjalg reacted to dux in Do you enjoy your job in the games industry? August 14, 2014

Oh mate, liam, mate, mate. I'm sat here right now in my pants with a cup of tea and a biscuit (that your mum gave me earlier, lovely lady) listening to music on my speakers blaring out as loud as possible whilst waiting for one of my programmer homies to fix a bug with the unity tools.

We miss having a prop guy with us man, all our stuff is outsourced at the moment and can be a little problematic sometimes.

To be serious for a moment though: I love my job. I love not being in a studio. I love not having to travel to work. I love not having to work stupid 9-5 hours and pull stupid hardcore crunch overtime for weeks on end. I love that at UWE we get to make what we want with no publisher interference. We do have a deal with an investor but they let us do what we want. Sometimes people are like "Oh my god, how can you work like that, how do you not get bored?" and I sit here and think "Oh my god, how can YOU work like that? Travelling in a subway or bus to work with annoying people or stuck in a cubicle making a game you hate whilst you listen to your dumbass lead producer think up new retarded ideas for a shitty game?"

I can get up and go out whenever I want. I can go for a coffee with friends during the middle of the day and then come back home and carry on working into the night quite happily. The flexibility is fantastic. What do I lose out on? Not being considered a real "game developer?" Nah. Being in a studio don't mean much anymore. I mean, you're hardly there for long until you get axed these days.

Skjalg got a reaction from e-freak in DOTA 2 August 7, 2014

I wanna make a mod. Anyone else want to?