Ten years ago I fled my passion of game development to the much dryer realm of chip design because I thought the game industry wasn't going to be kind to the middle aged, married with children crowd.
My friends that stayed confirm. It really sucks, because the best programming I did and saw done was coding games.
The scale of today's games makes it much more difficult for a small, private company to make much of an impact-- which is about the only place I'd want to work.
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Ten years ago I fled my passion of game development to the much dryer realm of chip design because I thought the game industry wasn't going to be kind to the middle aged, married with children crowd.
My friends that stayed confirm. It really sucks, because the best programming I did and saw done was coding games.
The scale of today's games makes it much more difficult for a small, private company to make much of an impact-- which is about the only place I'd want to work.