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by scarface74 1186 days ago
I would also never tell someone with a CS degree to go into game dev. It’s notoriously soul crushing
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I'd tell 'em to try it for 6-12 months and then take a mandatory vacation in F500

Game dev was like a kind of inspirational boot camp for me. I got to see (for better or worse) what the true limits of a professional developer and artist were.

I couldn't even stand it for a year, but it shaped my attitude towards work and hard things ever since.