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

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vovanz • Edited
  1. Do you work for a big gamedev company or in a small team?

  2. Do you have any influence on game-design or you just work on technical tasks?

  3. What exactly are you coding? For which platform? (desktop, mobile, backend etc.)
    (I'm asking this question because Java is an unusual choice for a desktop game, AFAIK)

  4. (many people are not very comfortable when talking about money, so you can just ignore this question if you want)
    How did this choice influence your income? Do you earn less or more money than before? Or about the same?

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George

1.

Currently a small phone development company that is ran by a very good friend of mine.

2.

In school I took a brief module on games design which had helped me a lot when creating my first game to bring into my portfolio.

Currently mobile games, I've worked on desktop games before but found mobile games to be more fun. I'm using Java because I work on the Android platform which uses Java.

4.

I earned more as a software engineer. But I found myself to be more happy as a games developer. I wrote a little bit more on this topic above.

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Zecel Manatad

Pertaining to the Java language what are you using Unity?

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vovanz

Thank you!