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Discussion on: I switched from software engineering to game development, ask me anything.

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Mac Siri

How long was your transition process? And do you currently find yourself working much longer hours?

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George

The transition process didn't take as long as I had thought. Because I had chosen Java as the main language for games it was fairly easy to learn as C# and Java are very similar. I made a couple of games to show them what I could do and within about 7 months I had found myself working alongside some very nice people on a small game.

The hours is a little bit complicated, I've always worked remotely (apart from one time) and usually scheduled to a certain amount of hours per week. This meant that I could do 2 hours one day then 12 the other day. As long as I was meeting the requirements per week everything was all good to go.