What hard skills do you possess, that could help assist in game development?

I'm a qa engineer so I can do the full QA cycle, although my coding experience is mostly focused on automating UI interfaces and browser applications haha.
 
Product management, Jira Admin plus anything Atlassian based, data and telemetry. QA if need be (iv done it before in the industry).

All the boring shit essentially.
 
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I have a Games Development Degree, so that?

In all honestly, Physics based Math, Software Dev skills, patience and the ability to say no are vital in Software Dev, more so in Games Dev
 
I can program. I have been digging into Godot lately.

It is much easier to get into game development than it used to be.

You don't have to roll your own anymore. There is an actual path to learning things.
 
One thing that I have found, is that it is better to get some projects under your belt before you go to a game jam.
 
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Directing, writing, management, marketing, community management

Can't code but have a good tech understanding, I think I could understand development pipelines if I got into it.
 
Product Development, Delivery and Management. lol. But game dev sounds exceedingly tougher than what I do on the daily.
 
Englishy things: writing, story direction, characterization, revision.

I'm also pretty good at managing creative circles (ex. workshops) and fostering collaboration.
 
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Nearly 15 years of IT experience as developer, OPS, functional analyst, support and now team leader with a Lean certification.

On my free time, I am "good" enough to make by myself 8 bits games entirely (game-design, planing, coding, story, pixel-art, music etc...). The beauty of 8 bits consoles is that you can get away with average skills like me haha.

Trying to make this a more active part of my life, but the road is going to be very long lol.
 
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Having taste and a great culture of games is the first skill you need.

If you have no taste, how do you know that the game you're making isn't shit?
 
I'm good at MoCapp'n stupid dances. We could put them in every game we make because the kids will love it and memes are all that matter.
 
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Bringing the same emersion we had back in the 90s, it's not hard, just bring passionate devs who are willing to take risks themselves and not by force cause the outcome is definitely different and there is no business phrase for that, it's common knowledge.
 
Software and Infrastructure architecture, security design and assessment, cloud services architecture and design; implementation of these and of course normal IT stuff, such as scripting, networking, etc...

Edit: There is no way I would work in gaming industry though unless I had absolutely no other choice. Crap hours, meh salaries, and so on.
 
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I have no game creation skills but if there was a job for someone who made suggestions like "wouldn't it be good if smoke came out of the exhaust/tail pipe?" Or "what if you could see people entering the stadium and finding their seats?" Or "what if the crowd reacted to a bad crash?" - that sort of detail stuff. That's what I'd be good at. So basically being a pedant and giving the programmers more work.
 
CPR, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, team and hospital (studio?) management.
Portuguese, English, Spanish and basic Japanese. Plus, Latino quota.
 
Eons ago, I studied animation and have worked with it before switching to business. On that end:

- Concept
- Writing
- Rough Draft
- Character models / designs (if it's something like GT7)
- Animatics

On the business side:

- Marketing PR
- Consulting dev team & fanbase for effective data for adverts and appealing demos for conventions / events
- Hitting deadlines and understanding proper PR timelines. Nothing worse than over or undershooting with PR. There've been some great games which had demo trailers but ended up getting cancelled. Producing trailers isn't cheap and that could be avoided if there was any hesitation prior from the team.

Tough business no matter which area you pick. I salute those who've stuck with it and have tenure.
 
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Not enough purple hair, obesity and pronoun catalogues in here. Team is lacking.

I used to create maps for CS, UrT and team up to make TCMs back in the day. I'm probably useful in a support capacity for coding (c++/c#/typescript) but only as an alt, not a main.

If there are any romance scenes that need mocapping, I can do them. Cis only though. And I'm the guy.
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Not sure if recruiting would assist in game development but if so, I think we know where all that sweat, grease, clown haired-type would end up working with. Keep them away from IPs which have not yet been destroyed.
 
3DS Max
Zbrush
Design Documentation

I take it the Maya tutorials I am sitting on have some intrinsic value - the cost of an "Animation Mentor" certificate (?) is highway robbery. Hooray for broke ass states desperate to keep "knowledge workers" from fleeing for less destitute pastures.
 
I dont want to assist in game development. Once it becomes a job, i wouldnt want to play games anymore and id never want to lose that desire to play.
 
Oh, I forgot! I know uipath so I can automate a good chunk of the backend office processes as well as the QA stuff.
 
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I am an expert on anti-racism.

www.neogaf.com

Drama - Videogames are white supremacist.

Given that Trump has formally conceded, I have been doing a lot of thinking about how I can be a build back better ally, in order to show that I have been a staunch supporter of the Democrats all along. Oh hey friendos, buckle up your seatbelts, because we have got a lot to unpack today...
www.neogaf.com www.neogaf.com
 
C based dev for 22 years. Used to build my own engines back during my university days. I'm gonna say during the DirectX 7 days. Those times are a little fuzzy now. I've also got about a decade of leading other devs and project management skills.

I'd rather pull my own teeth than work in games Dev nowadays. I vastly prefer not working myself to the bone for something that 70-80% of the time consumers piss and moan about instantly.
 
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I'm working on almost everything concerning The Bounds VR except programming, advanced sound design and music . I'm not top-notch on every department, but quite confident right now.
 
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From reading through all these posts there would appear to be enough skills to put together a small independent game studio... I assume a lot of you guys are actually in game development or maybe where at some point, if so is there a reason it's not made prominent under one's username?? It is a game site after all or is it because gamers can be simultaneously the most interesting of creatures and absolute ballbag cunt fuckers and you don't want to shine a light on yourself for the morons to be attracted too?

As for skills, I can come into a room and call everyone a cunt
 
i arm known for my industry predictions

Psybear.jpg
 
I have a knack for knowing why a game sucks or why a game is good. I'm basically Shigeru Miyamoto, so if you're hiring PM me
 
-Computer scientist w/ research focus in AI/ML
-Founder/CEO of notable online den of trolls and miscreants
-Writer
-Designer
 
Currently director of a development department, have experience being a Manager and team Lead. Also many years experience programming.

But all of this for software development not game development. I have always been curious if this translates well at all.
 
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Not sure if recruiting would assist in game development but if so, I think we know where all that sweat, grease, clown haired-type would end up working with. Keep them away from IPs which have not yet been destroyed.
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God of Peace: Ragged off my cock
 
Coding (C and various archaic assembly languages), game design, narrative design/writing, team management, production, biz-dev and PR.
Many published titles, across every major platform and for every major publisher/platform holder.
 
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