I started with a small start up company and now I work for a much larger studio. I think starting as a Jr in a small company is going to help you far more than starting as a Jr in a big studio because in bigger companies you aren't generally allowed to go outside your discipline and try new things, where as in a small company its crucial that you wear many hats. This way you learn so much more and at a faster rate than you would working for a larger game studio out of the gate. Not saying its the best way to go, but its just the way it happened for me and it worked out. Next step is to run my own studio 💪
Just to confirm what you are saying, I gave up working in the game-dev industry after 8 years (started at 22 years old) because I was afraid I will start hating games because of the chaotic work-life balance and culture that the game-dev companies provided. It was hard to switch, me being a hardcore gamer all my life I had this internal struggle that I was giving up my dream. Anyways, switching to actual general dev and software services industry was the best decision ever, I managed to earn more, work less, have time to actually learn more stuff and still enjoy a gamer life. I've been on and off with unity since then on hackathons, doing contract work or just for fun stuff and it is awesome :-).
Great work with these videos Brendan. Thanks for putting the efforts in. Very real comments about indie game development. Can you please share some more info on accelerator programs? Thanks.
LMAO, did you just say that the renderhead application will take you weeks or months to write? It will probably take you years to write. It is extremely complex especially if you do not have background in video encoding programming
Things you need to avoid. Getting girlfriend. You won't be able to finish your game project over the deadline. If your girlfriend say I want to have baby. lol. you are fucked. You can't finish your game project. hahahahah. This shit happened to me when I have a dog. I'm trying to beat the system. it's hard. RU-vid and Netflix is also distracting environment too.
