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Are you a professional or a hobbyist? How did you get your start in programming? What type of project/s are you working on currently? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by HawkXero@lemmy.one to c/programming@beehaw.org

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I'm always interested in hearing other's stories and what they're working on. Anyone care to share?

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[–] cowvin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been a professional software engineer in the game industry for 22 years now. I started off in school at first on Apple computers with Basic, then when I got a graphing calculator in school I started writing tools for school work and games on it all the time. After college, I wasn't sure what sort of software I wanted to work on (dot-com era), but one of my good friends talked me into applying to some game companies. I've been in a bunch of different companies since then but right now I'm working on online systems for one of the biggest online games.

[–] Mithra@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How much, would you say, are the things you work on specific to games? Just trying to get a feeling for how difficult it would be to move from “general” backend engineering to backend engineering for games.