Hi Jow Forums I am an AAA Video developer. AMA. I hope that my medium can positively change the world

I see a lot of hatred here about video game developers and about how some of the games we make are perceived (sometimes very negatively – Battlefield 5 for example) and how they influence popular culture and politics. I’ll do my best to answer your questions, so ask away and hopefully I can help dispel some of the myths and falsehoods that are discussed here. I love my job and I love the people I work with, so let’s keep it civil and respectful and in return I will give you a glimpse behind the curtain. If you want to know more about the industry and how it truly works, this is your opportunity.

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Many people feel that we have a bad influence on young people and that our games are crafted with secret political messages. I'll be honest and come clean, yes you are correct. The games that we make, are tinted by our political and cultural views.

You've seen the effects first hand. Mass Effect Andromeda, our new progressive take on Lara Croft, etc.

How does it feel knowing you're putting your life into making a product instead of a game?

It's not great but it pays well. It beats mopping vomit from the floor of a McDonald at 4 a.m in the morning.

How long did it take you to get to that level of programming? Is being an indie dev a viable means to get stable income?

Why is Anthem being receivef so poorly despite a dev cycle of 6 years and a huge budget?
Why are there so much SJW/PC politics present in video games?

>hopefully I can help dispel some of the myths and falsehoods that are discussed here
Such as?

You don't even need to know how to code in a traditional sense to make games today. Just pick something up and you'll learn along the way.

hello fellow 4 channelers ;^)

to which way is /jew/ general

>AAA Video developer
Um... Uh... Do you maybe have an elevator repair man or buzzfeed writer we can talk to instead? You know, something that involves creativity.

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Can you think of a way to prove to us you are actually a developer?

Everyone right now is trying to clone the success of Fortnite and Destiny. But the user base is not big enough. So everyone's competing for the same part of the pie. Anthem is nice looking, but they did not create a lore that the players can relate to. This was a huge mistake.

>secret
You fucking joke, you idiots are obvious as shit with your political bullshit.

why do you make such shitty games?

10 years is what it takes to master it. But you could work in the industry sooner than that. Being an indie is incredibly hard but also incredibly rewarding emotionally. Making games is like making music now, it's very accessible. But not everyone is good at it. Just because you have access to the tech, doesn't mean that you are good or talented.

No. Sorry, you'll have to take my word for it. Ask me questions, and you will see that I am the real deal.

fag and larp confirmed

Because we are paid for doing so. Only a few people are truly responsible for these shitty games. I don't include myself. I would love to make good games, like most of the people that I work with.

Wut?

>in return I will give you a glimpse behind the curtain.
No even a single post in and you're already begging for us to let you show off your pussy (read: mutilated dick)

answer this

see

you're a fag and a larper.

That everyone working in the industry is a shill and that we enjoy making shit games? We're all dreaming and hoping to work on cool and fun games. Unfortunately, the industry is muzzling us.

Ask me a question instead. What would you like to know about the industry and how it can influence politics?

>an AAA
lol

why don't you kill all jews?

Give me an example of a product you've worked on and how it influenced politics.

Ok fine. So I will ask two questions. As a games dev, do you job hop very often, or do you mostly stay at one company? Also what kind of trchnologies/languages do you use most often?

You're a bunch of pozzed faggots enabling the industry because "you need money" (you dont care about games) or "you want to work in your dream industry" (even if it means you destroy it)
You're a bunch of faggots and deserve the reaction you got from the market

What's with all the non-whites in Apex?
Why is Lifeline a boring jamaican who never says anything that relates to her character to make her more interesting like a jamaican proverb or slang or something?
Why is Wraith a boring clone of reaper who also doesn't seem to have a backstory and just makes generic quips?

What are the current plans for VR to affect politics?

Which companies have the most freemasons?

>As a games dev, do you job hop very often

All the time. Job security is almost non-existent. If you are not willing to relocate around the world, your career options will be extremely limited as a dev. It also depends if you live in North America or not. This makes a big difference.

>Also what kind of technologies/languages do you use most often?

Unreal, C++, C Sharp and in-house engines and tech.

Why has your industry suddenly become infested with this attitude that games should be a form of propaganda? Why isn't the focus on making good games, games you would want to play, rather than preaching some message - and just simply milking customers with substandard products riding on reputation or franchise name?

Schoolgirl GF Panty Quest VR is expected to really change the outcome of the 2020 election.

I personally care a great deal about games. I think that games are art. But the companies that I work for, don't care at all about that. It's all about profit. They pretend that they care about the medium, but in fact they don't care at all. Especially big companies.

>No. Sorry, you'll have to take my word for it.
I tell everyone I'm a pol fucker.
Pussy.

>larp larp larp

>r9k in ID
gtfo this isn't your interactive blog

Lots of potential applications. The VR field is very promising, but not necessarily in the gaming industry. I see a bright future in the short term, in the medical world (remote surgeries / robot assisted surgeries. Augmented reality as well.

Yeah you love games so much you help destroy them by enabling the pozzed industry directly. Its not as if other jobs dont exist faggot, no one has a gun to your head. You choose to help these companies so that you can feel like you're in your dream industry, never mind the fact they are pozzed terrible games! Fucking faggot. Go back to the pozzhole reddit already

>larp larp larp larp

Tfw tripleB agent programmer for mega super games station company, and developer only with the highest end facilities to create multi million dollar projects , but will never hold a breath to Notch.

Or better yet, all the faggy bullshit games coming out, and everyone almost rather play Tetris with a pvp mode, because all your stories are so HIV infected and every pvp game has a balancing team of lab sides elephant men and women who dont even understand balance

please respond

This is the truth that will make you sad. It's a generational issue. More and more, new devs are entering the industry. Millenials. I fucking hate these dipshits. All the stereotypes about them are true. They are entitled, lazy and not creative. They suck. it's a fucking nightmare to work with them. They are also, like you've suspected, mostly infected with all the SJWs bullshit. This is why games are what they are today, it's all because of them and the boomers that are CEOs right now. It is, truly, a nightmare.

See my latest reply on the subject. It's not us, it's the new "generation". They are a cancer to our industry and I fear that they will kill it.

So all the new talent coming out of college are commie tier branwashed from said experience, and we're just seeing it manifest in the industry? How long have you been in this field? Did you do something else prior?

If you're part of an older generation there is nothing stopping you from banding together, creating a studio and making your own non pozzed games. Why are there younger retards reigning over you? Are you nothing but a code monkey, or artist that has been there for a while? Why arent you speaking up in numbers on social media, anonymously if you have to as to how terrible the studios are and all the market has to do is reject paying money or attention, anything? Reddit tier threads here every now and then doesnt count faggot

Not just that but subliminal messages and occult imagery which probably aren't in good faith.

>LARP LARP LARP

To make you all better understand where I stand many of my friends in the industry, I will say that Daniel Vávra is our hero. He's the video game writer, director, designer and co-founder of Warhorse Studios. He is best known as the author of crime action video games Mafia and Mafia II and the medieval role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

I'm a millenial developer. I guess I'm a little lazy but I feel totally justified because there's no incentive to put in the hours that some of the older guys do.
If they work hard, they save up to buy their 3rd $500k house, but if I work hard, I'm just paying the bills. And I make a shit ton of money, too.
It makes more sense to put in the minimum effort required to stay employed and just focus the rest of my time on subverting jews on Jow Forums or making my own products.

I can't sorry, this would make it easy to narrow down who I am.

>So all the new talent coming out of college are commie tier branwashed from said experience, and we're just seeing it manifest in the industry?

This is 100% what's happening. I've been in the industry for 30 years now.

LARP

>Coffee boy for marketing firm hired by CGI post production company to do three scenes for a studio no one cares about

Jow Forums LARPers should become an hero

Why do you keep feeding the beast that is killing gaming? Before you start complaining about making a living, remember that its not the only job available, and you have shown admiration of others that have gone their own way like vavra
You're like a drug addicts enabler

Although I don't work in the industry, I have young employees working on games, and I can confirm they are brainwashed as fuck.
When liberal politicians eventually get arrested, they are going to lose their fucking minds.

>If you're part of an older generation there is nothing stopping you from banding together, creating a studio and making your own non pozzed games. Why are there younger retards reigning over you?

They're not. We are laughing at them because we know that they are destroying the AAA industry. Everything that they touch, turns to shit and fails miserably. It takes time and money to build studios, but rest assured that this is our goal. Most of my friends are leaving the industry right now because of all that. It's an exodus of epic proportion. And all for the same reasons, they can't stand the current PC climate. I think that it's a good thing. We're about to see a revival of the type of games that we all love. Be patient. We're in a transitional period. It fucking sucks, but there's hope / light at the end of the tunnel.

Yeah its always around the corner, just sit tight and wait and do nothing huh

>and just focus the rest of my time on subverting jews on Jow Forums or making my own products.

The last part of your sentence redeemed you. Otherwise I was about to tell you that you are part of the problem (you are). But this last bit, makes it OK in my book. Work for yourself. Don't wage slave your life away.

Germanys "goverment drug specialist"

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Even if I wasn't, I wouldn't be part of the problem.
The project I work on has illuminati companies as customers, so really I should be sabotaging it as best I can.
History won't remember my contributions to the industry very well.

It's a very competitive field and he could have a family to support. It's not as simple as that for one individual. I sure as shit couldn't do something like that in my field without putting my whole life at risk.

To pay my bills? I don't agree with the direction the industry is going toward, but I'm just a cog in the machine. One day I hope to make games that you guys will enjoy. If this day becomes true, my life will be complete. I'm an artist after all. And my brush is my keyboard.

We're not doing nothing. Leaving a 3 figures job is not that easy my fren. It requires careful planning.

>so really I should be sabotaging it as best I can.
I think that this is noble goal and strategy. Don't get caught. Be smart. Bringing down the system from the inside is always preferable to attacking it directly. You sound like you know what you are doing. Kudos to you.

Depends on how much you live beneath your means. I spent my 20s in bedrooms and always had more or less infinite money when I was employed.

Well as you know, this is the trap of high paying jobs. But I'm like you, I'm debt free, I was mostly speaking on behalf of the people that I know. Most people in the industry don't have my mindset.

I probably won't, but if I wanted, with a little scripting and planning, I could expose tens of millions of people around the world to illuminati-exposure videos.
I have thought about it as a hypothetical.
Of course nothing ever goes like you intend.

Just make sure that everything you do, is always done in a Minecraft map and never in the real world.

Like I said, its not like there arent other jobs available. And its competitive yes but industry veterans that could cite actual good games would have the market rally behind them if they left to make non pozzed games. They have a definite advantage, there is no real excuse for staying and helping the industry.

>Before you start complaining about making a living, remember that its not the only job available, and you have shown admiration of others that have gone their own way like vavra
> Its not as if other jobs dont exist faggot, no one has a gun to your head. You choose to help these companies so that you can feel like you're in your dream industry, never mind the fact they are pozzed terrible games

In MW2 single player your player character shoots up an airport; how did this storyline manifest itself? External sources? Or a writer that took inspiration from the world around them? (Not sure what is worse...)

There's definitely way more jobs with better pay outside the game dev industry.
I would never remotely consider working in gamedev outside of entrepreneurship.
It's a go big or go home kind of thing.

>myths and falsehoods
Modern AAA games are complete garbage and I won't buy any of them. I have a large enough backlog of significantly better, older games on multiple consoles and PC to satisfy my urge to play video games. You know you're just another flop away from a layoff, and your industry is so frightened of losing out on infinite growth you convinced Sony to sabotage the Japanese game market with a censorship policy that goes beyond western ratings boards. Your games are all piss poor skinner boxes with hamfisted political garbage. Not only have I stopped purchasing games years ago, I don't even bother pirating the tripe you people shit out.

How's that for a reality check?

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I want to become a dev by starting in concept and working my way up (artfag), but the industry is so pozzed with PC nonsense how can you expect me to want to be a part of it?

What kind of games are you working on?
Any comment on the situation at eugen?
Whats your favourite game?
What are your favourite devs and why?

This is kind of a blackpill, but I think that everything has been done.
I'm not sure people will be playing video games a few years from now.
Or watching movies or using any form of digital entertainment.
I'm taking a huge risk spending huge amounts of money on this, but it's more of a lifelong goal kind of thing.
I don't actually expect it to work out.

>You choose to help these companies so that you can feel like you're in your dream industry, never mind the fact they are pozzed terrible games

30 years ago, these companies were not shilling for pozzed content. This is a recent phenomenon. I don't want to work for companies that promote this agenda.

>Your games are all piss poor skinner boxes with hamfisted political garbage

I fully agree with you. 100%.

Make deus ex but with more redpills and day 1 pepe dlc pls

you arent a aaa dev because you used the word 'hope' as if you dont just want people to suffer playing your trash games
aaa is just 666 backwards and smaller and shit

Based and checked.
Nevertheless, you are the exception.
The industry is bigger than ever at the moment.

>ID is r9k
Lel

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>but the industry is so pozzed with PC nonsense how can you expect me to want to be a part of it?

Don't be part of it. It's shit. All of it. Be part instead of the new gaming counter culture that will burgeon soon. I want to be part of it. The AAA industry is dying.

I too have seen Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale. Nice LARP faggot.

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>aaa is just 666 backwards and smaller and shit
Just when you think you took the whole bottle of redpills, there's always one more.

>30 years ago, these companies were not shilling for pozzed content. This is a recent phenomenon. I don't want to work for companies that promote this agenda.

They have been shilling this shit for at least five years now overtly, there's been plenty of time, and its not like you have to actually build a physical studio. What do you want from these threads? Friendship with 4ch?

Yeah, I think it will go through a "correction" but it will remain as a cancerous pile of shit. I'm at least keeping my money out of it, it's the best anyone can do.

Kek works in mysterious ways my fren.

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I’m a white male studying game deving with almost no code at uni. I can make my own shitty games already and i dont expect an industry job ever just having to make my own games and self publish.

What are my chances of being hired though?

>The AAA industry is dying.
Yea this was my thinking. I have some friends that are dev's for smaller companies and their advice is to go indy and just have fun, etc. Between modeling techniques and game engines becoming more and more user friendly, indy game market is going to get bigger and bigger me thinks. Im working in UD4 and it's amazing how quickly shit came come together with very few people.

well AAA companies are the ones behind that agenda, anything else isnt AAA.
i wouldnt want to be a dev for any top company, fuck that. you're disposable to them and your content gets turned into trash as soon as they see their dollars dwindling

Non-game-dev positions get 100 resumes per week.
Game-dev probably gets a lot more.
To give you an idea.

>UD4
UE4*

IIRC Swat 5 has a true-detective-esque pizzagate level

Video gaming industry is dead, you can't even make a new Half-Life.