It is often thought that game developers/programmers have it easy and just play games all day but this blog is to clear these misconceptions .
This is definitely untrue as there are many other professions under the game developer belt such as artists, level designers, 3D modellers, riggers and animators, quality assurance and user research roles, musicians and sound designers, project managers, producers, writers, people who work in PR and marketing, team leads, business intelligence, community managers and studio development .
Misconception No.6 - We know about all games that are out there
To clear this misconception i must tell a story ...... I told a friend of mine that i was a game developer and he bombarded me with questions about games i have never heard of ... thus proving my point that game developers don't know about many new games .
Misconception No.7 - You need to pay to use game engines
Not necessarily as there are many free game engines out there such as unity personal which is a free version of unity pro other such game engines another great example would be unreal engine 4 .
Misconception No.8 - you don't have to be a mathematician .
This is somewhat accurate as you should know some advanced level math though the engine does most of the calculations for you and when using an engine such as unity there are classes to do most calculations and doing them is pretty simple once a person gets used to it .
Misconception No.9-We dont sleep .
It is also somewhat true as a programmer i work most my nights and sleep through the day which does not go well with most my schedule but life carries on as it is the only reasons most programmers prefer to work in the night is because our brains are more active during the night .
Misconception No.10-We are hackers or nerds .
This is one thing that a majority of programmers dislike , people assume that we can hack but the truth is many programmers dont even have the time to do anything as such as we are working a majority of our time.
Misconception No.1 - we make lots of money
Many well experienced developers may make upto 100,000$ or more but they make that much money annually , which means they make 7600 $ per month and a programmer with less than 3 years of experience makes an average annual salary of 72000 $ or 7000 $ per month which is not a lot of money in comparison to other jobs such investment banking .
Misconception No.2 - we play games all day
I am a game developer and well i do not play games all do but rather program scripts and debug my code all day making sure everything is working , the only time i actually play my game is when i have to check it for bugs .
Misconception No.3 - we are all geniuses (With An IQ of 160 +)
It doesn't matter if you have an iq of 90 or 160 most programmers are average people like you and me and often have an average IQ or less thus programmers are not all geniuses though there have been some geniuses such as bill gates with very high iq .
Misconception No.4 - C and C++ are the only programming languages used in game development
Not necessarily true as older programmers prefer C++ as it gives them more freedom and control over their program but there are many other languages used for programming games and some good examples are swift ,ruby ,python , C# , java and objective-c the list goes on .
Misconception No.5 - All game developers are programmers .
Misconception No.6 - We know about all games that are out there
To clear this misconception i must tell a story ...... I told a friend of mine that i was a game developer and he bombarded me with questions about games i have never heard of ... thus proving my point that game developers don't know about many new games .
Misconception No.7 - You need to pay to use game engines
Not necessarily as there are many free game engines out there such as unity personal which is a free version of unity pro other such game engines another great example would be unreal engine 4 .
Misconception No.8 - you don't have to be a mathematician .
This is somewhat accurate as you should know some advanced level math though the engine does most of the calculations for you and when using an engine such as unity there are classes to do most calculations and doing them is pretty simple once a person gets used to it .
Misconception No.9-We dont sleep .
It is also somewhat true as a programmer i work most my nights and sleep through the day which does not go well with most my schedule but life carries on as it is the only reasons most programmers prefer to work in the night is because our brains are more active during the night .
Misconception No.10-We are hackers or nerds .
This is one thing that a majority of programmers dislike , people assume that we can hack but the truth is many programmers dont even have the time to do anything as such as we are working a majority of our time.
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