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I moved back from Berlin to Darmstadt to go back to university and finish my studies; 3 semesters left  .

And while I enjoyed my time at Yager a lot and worked on a bunch of really cool projects there, it feels good to have some more time again for personal projects as well :). I'll post some stuff I am working on soon, it's fun!

Thank you guys for your feedback. Very much appreciated! I haven't got so much feedback on the other sites I posted, so please keep it coming . And I agree, I got carried away a bit with all the pp, will fix it for the next update, cheers!

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Toned everything down, thx again!

Sounds good, will try that, thx!

Wow, thanks everyone!

Pogo, I'm gonna mention something that might sound a bit self-explanatory, something noone have mentioned yet.

What are you doing outside of work? Are you eating enough good food? Are you sleeping enough? Are you working out?  Do you eat your vitamins? etc etc...

For me, all of those things, if I don't take care about them my motivation will break down no matter what I do. My point is, maybe it's not work related at all, maybe it's something completely different, not necessarily one of the things I listed.

 

 

So what about me? I've gone straight on the indie-dev path together with four other fellas and what I've figured so far that is both good and bad about being an indie is that you really have to do a tons of things that aren't your expertise at all necessarily. Sure I do my designing part of the games but there are so many times I just find my self tweaking GUI variables, creating simple art  and so on. But what I found myself doing the most, since I'm the talkative guy in the group, is a lot of management, networking and just doing all of those things that needs to be done, simply because everyone else always seem to have a high-prio task linked to their expertise (art and coding.)

I like doing that stuff at least a little, but there's nothing like just making maps and tweaking gameplay and that's what I'd always want to do it. I just don't see that happening on a really small company like ours, then again; variation is good.

 

Loving it so far , though I'm only in for roughly one year, and the amount of bullshit was pretty low.

Guess I'm really lucky to work for Yager, too. They take really good care of their employees, and try to not crunch them to death. Even in the busy weeks before e3, there was little too no overtime involved. Great projects, flat hirarchy, you can basically work on what you feel is best for the project, all the managment gets done by the team, etc. .

Things are awesome at the moment!

Finally some good words about the AAA-studios, I've been hearing so much shit about them in terms of overtime et cetera I've lost quite a bit of interest in applying for the bigger studios. But maybe, since the game dev business is still in its infancy (in comparison to others), there will be a time when working in this industry could mean an economic security and not be as volatile.

 

Yep, I kinda felt the same before joinging AAA because of all the horror you get to hear, but I guess you have to experience it yourself to judge. Awesome to have such a positive suprise!

Loving it so far, agree on the FX part + the trees.

The one bg building reminds me of the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, was that one of your refs?

Loving it so far , though I'm only in for roughly one year, and the amount of bullshit was pretty low.

Guess I'm really lucky to work for Yager, too. They take really good care of their employees, and try to not crunch them to death. Even in the busy weeks before e3, there was little too no overtime involved. Great projects, flat hirarchy, you can basically work on what you feel is best for the project, all the managment gets done by the team, etc. .

Things are awesome at the moment!

Gamescom trailer arrived .

Is anyone going to gamescom as well? I'm there from tuesday to friday, if some corians wants to meet up for a beer .

Played through the beta, positively suprised, probably gonna pick it up when it's out.

mh yeah, I'm thinking about that. Yager said I'd still have a job there, if I'd want to finish university next year.

2nd game announcement involving YAGER is Dreadnought:

 

Yay, so glad finally being able to talk about what I'm working on

Also there's already some gameplay footage out there (it's in German though):

Wow, thats big news. Congrats!

Grats on the release!

lol, article says I'd be working at Crytek, interesting .. didn't know that before. 

Mapcore playsession sounds nice, I'm 'lenzmonath' on origin.

Grats on finishing this beast! Looking forward to the other articles.

Nice ! Is it based on a concept or did you design it on your own? I'd probably make some of the shapes, e.g. in the back less boxy. Weapons are usually designed to be picked up fast and easy, without hurting yourself on sharp edges, so you probably wanna smooth some of the areas where the soldier would grab the weapon. But very clean modelling!