I worked in the industry for many years, almost certainly I’ve worked in a very minor way on some games you’ve heard of. If you’re curious about the reality of game dev or anything about my experience then shoot.
As you say former game developer, I’ll go for the obvious question: why did you stop?
What’s your favourite game?
Probably Hollow Knight.
How does someone get into the industry nowadays?
I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Game Programming, experience in Unity and Unreal, C++ and C# expertise, professional level code, and all these recruiters keep ghosting or rejecting me. I’ve been rejected from entry-level jobs where I met all the basic and most of the bonus qualifications.
Sorry for necro’ing, but what are your thoughts about the current state of game optimization? In my opinion, it has been getting worse and worse (I only play modded Minecraft 1.8.9, and some browser games, because of my extremely awful laptop), but I would like to hear your perspective on that.
