Don't let my experience be a guide. Just a "heads-up" my friend. Just don't feel distressed when something is not working your way. And try to find the beauty in all of it. I had personal experiences that halted a lot of my work, both personal and professional. My Wife ended with multiple thromboses over a 5-year span, 2…
Thanks for all your contributions, your support is highly valued here! And thanks for sharing your progression, I think this is helpful for other game developers to be realistic in assessing their own careers. It’s not easy sometimes, and game dev can be a real pressure cooker, with all kinds of bad management practices.…
Cheers mate good luck for the future and a personal thank you contributing on that subd thread over the years, not only enabling myself but also alongside many others, getting some sort of handle on this hard surface caper B)
Having spent most of my adult life in a game-dev desert, being unable to relocate due to family commitments and ending up working for some really dodgy bastards there are strong echoes of my own experiences here and it's hit me right in the feels. I was fortunate enough to find a path out but I remember the feelings well.…