Thanks bro! Yeah man, always gotta keep hustling on it hahahaha

Thank you so much! I will respond to your other comment as well - but really appreciate it!

Thank you so much! Welcome! Feel free to join my discord or shoot me a message whenever if you’re ever in need of some game dev help - i’d be more than happy to assist! Best of luck :)

Hey Garnet, I'd love to! Can't seem to find a link to your discord though?

Hey! The Game industry is tough to get into - so understandably you would have your doubts. But definitely not mad for people who want to suffer - as far as tech/software goes, i would definitely consider it to be on the more rewarding side. I think ultimately you should follow what you're passionate about - the great thing about game development specifically is that you don't need to be working in a studio to be making games, pick it up even as a hobby and just see where you go from there. you might find that you enjoy it, you might find that you don't, but ultimately don't be afraid to have a try!

@@GarnetKane Where did you get the tall monitor from?

Ooooh, yeah that’s exactly how i felt. My days vary so much but i kinda just went with it. honestly wasn’t that bad and can easily decide record whenever!

Ahahahahahah come to Australia, Summer all year long :P Honestly I’d love to see some snow!

Thanks bro! I made it hahaha

Great question! And interesting point - were you also using Bolt for visual scripting? Visual Scripting generally runs the logic at the same pace as normal c#, it's all a similar logic flow - there do happen to be spikes loading the graphs initially as there is a lot of deserialization that needs to occur with the bolt graphs but other than that I've actually never really seen an issue. As for moving to c# from visual scripting - if you're familiar and comfortable with how the logic is set up, then it should be relatively straight forward to convert it. It's not a bad idea either to draw out how you expect a visual script piece of code to run and then look into how you can convert each of those into nodes - maybe even if you have a few nodes that you've worked with in the past, practice just converting them into raw c# so you know what the intended outcome is and how you should be laying things out (parameters/outputs/inputs etc.) If you do have specific visual scripting questions though, feel free to jump into my Discord and post your question there! I'll help however best I can :)

Hahaha it's kind of an interesting question actually - I still find the fun in gaming because of innovative ideas - there's definitely a part of me when I play a game now where I wonder how they achieved something like that, but it never ruins the 'illusion' in a sense for me. Maybe if I personally worked on the games that I enjoyed then I would probably find it a little bit harder to enjoy completely, but for the majority I still love it!

Great question! And it's a very genuine concern with a lot of developers, especially on the indie side - for most cases it's a risk that the developer/studio has to take and unfortunately for a lot of studios this does/has resulted in projects being shut down or employment being terminated. However, the other end of it, is that the studios seek the funding before or during the development of the game - for example, in Australia where I am, there's certain grants that you can apply for through the Australian Government as part of the Screen and Media organisations, so occasionally studios are incentivised to actually make a game, and the money that they get from it will just almost be pure net profit!

ok, i was thinking of switching from a degree in software development to game and simulation development, however, i believe there are more scenarios where software development is on the table, thank you for your quick feed back, one more question, is game development fun?, does it get boring?, and while being obviously complex, Is it a hard job?@@GarnetKane

Of course! And completely great and valid questions, don’t be afraid to ask more. Game Dev, especially in software is almost always going to be a fun job, there’s a good portion of the job which is just playing the game which you can never complain about hahaha Difficulty for it though definitely comes in waves, there’s some tasks that really require you to step back and think, and others that are pretty mindless especially if you’re experienced, but ultimately the enjoyment, at least for me, comes down to the problem solving aspect. I feel like any passionate programmer will give you that answer but it’s like solving puzzles haha. My advice though - it’s easy for a general software developer to get into game development, and it’s hard(er) for someone who studied game development to get into generalised software development - so your comment about scenarios for software dev is completely true. i guess have a think about what you value more. for me, i was fortunate enough to be able to choose something i enjoyed more and pursued game development as a degree and i reallly have no regrets about it, but you gotta have that motivation to build your portfolio and hustle to get yourself into the industry

Of course brother. will never forget you 🤝🤝🤝