What You Love/Hate About Your Job

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1- Art (world geom, props, FX, post FX) / Tech.
2- Problem solving, a job well done.
3- Fecking office politics! Grrr.

 

1 - Design
2 - Making cool things that work and that people enjoy.
3 - It's hard work.

 

1 Programming/Managment
2 Building up a series of problem solving tasks into an important game feature?
3 absurd timescales

 

1. Programming / Research
2. Learning new things, solving interesting problems
3. Crunching

 

1. Character animation.
2. Best thing is having done my time in offices, i now work anywhere that has an internet connection, lets me focus on just the work, not the bullshit, then after its done i can get on with my life instantly.
3. Bad rigging, feature creep, bad producers, thoughtless design.

 

1- Environment Art
2- It's close to home
3- I had to sodding move to America to afford a decent standard of living.

 

1. Artist/factotum. Currently environments and assets, modelling, lighting, texturing.
2. Creating something, providing entertainment.
3. Politics, absence of creaivity, responsibilities usurped by egos, the hours, the pay, the inefficient and absurd way our industry is run.

 

1. Gameplay Programming and Design
2. I like the game we're working on and the people I work with
3. I dislike the way the scheduling is done

 

1. Product Acquisitions at a publisher.
2. Seeing great game ideas at an early stage and setting them on the path to being published products.
3. Having to deal with people who aren't gamers and don't know what makes a good game, but who can veto projects.

 

1. Production.

2. I wake up and never have the feeling of not wanting to go into work. I love the buzz generated by the work we do.

3. There are not enough people who care deeply or passionately about what they're trying to do.

 

Love: Making something that might make someones life a little better.

Hate: The lack of diversity in the workforce gets boring (sex, age, race, culture)

 

1. Art (as a freelancer)

2. Building stuff and breathing life into it.

3. Outsource companies undercutting me from abroad.

 

1. What general field of the gaming industry you are in (design, management, art, programming, sound, etc.)? -- Management (Recruiting)
this isn't as important as the others, but could be relavent...

2. What is the one thing you love most about your job or the industry in general? Finding cool talent.

3. What is the one thing you hate most about your job or the industry in general? Being unable to respond to the zillion of emails I get every day.

 

1. Programming
2. Problem solving, seeing a project come together
3. Beaker styled inept management making changes with every breath

 

1. Engine Programming
2. Problem solving, Optimizing, innovating, teaching.
3. idiots with too much power, crazy schedules and the "all seeing" boss being used as a "reason" for the craziness.

 

1. Programming
2. I love; Programming (duh), problem solving, holding an enormously elaborate multitude of structures in my head, and the game making process (working with smart, cool people).
3. I hate; The business of making a game, and everything that goes along with it.

 

I LOVE programming.

It's a disease really. If I didn't get paid to do it, I'd be doing it in some mental ward. Just don't tell my boss.

 

1. Tech artist (tech lead - something like that, it varies)
2. Coming up with art production processes, effects that seem impossible.
3. Loners, people who don't get on with other disciplines.

 

the things i love and hate

1. Production
2. Telling people what to do and when to do it (said with a cheeky sarcastic tone)
3. I hate internal politics. External politics you just put up with because it's always going to be there. Internal politics is unnecessary because you're a team trying to make a decent game. Politics equates to lack of communication and respect as well as small dick syndrome. It's simply time consuming bullshit.

Voila, my 2 cents.