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gamedev English
I accidentally dug up a pile of old e-mails from 90th , gamedev messages, reports and discussions and been curious to read some. The language have considerably shifted since. Not in exact literal wording but rather in feeling . It was interesting to read . Was sort of sharp, sometimes rough, expressive and colorful, with… -
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It's more to do with studio size and regulation. once you get past a certain size you legally need HR and once you have HR you have rules about how you speak to people and they're enforced by people who are payed to not have a sense of humour -
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Rather than boy's talk, I think it's probably more that they were less corporate, at a guess? Game dev was quite a bit different back then. Now it's a big industry, so it's become more corporate and up its own arse, I assume. With lots of middle managers and HR policies. -
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I wouldn't say it was all boys talks. The boss was a woman with phd in computer science actually. Now it looks like everyone asks chatGPT to reply. I do it sometimes too and always wonder why It always tries to neutral any graphic or expressive image in my text which IMO feels dull and lose its purpose. It's not that I… -
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It may just be boys talk. Teams back then will have been far more homogeneous than nowadays with less of an age range, far more of a gender imbalance and so on. So if you were one of the boys you would have fit right in and probably preferred that high-fivin' bitch-slapping style of communicating and working (late-)…
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