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shame on an IGA posted:Now that you've been told to be listening for them, you will hear at least two Goldeneye 64 SFX in some form of media or other every single day until you die. The one that always gets me is the sonic ring pickup sound at convenience stores.
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leper khan posted:The one that always gets me is the sonic ring pickup sound at convenience stores. yeah, this
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Jan 24, 2021 00:13
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Mine is the child laughing stock that was in Rollercoaster Tycoon that appears god drat everywhere.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I have two questions: It depends. It's been a good experience for me but I've worked mostly in Feature Animation and Film, and just jumped into games after 20 years. I got my lumps and hard knocks there... My first games job was Riot which isn't representative of the industry stereotype to some degree. Really good wages and benefits, really creative environment for our team at least, but I don't know about the widespread company. When I was there it was very compartmentalized between teams. The current studio I'm at is great, really accommodating, the owner coded engines for various consoles for 2 decades and knew his poo poo, had him kick me out of my office at 6:30 pm to "go home", offers probably one of the best health care in the state, and free poo poo/bonuses galore. But my experience isn't representative. If I ever left my current Job I'd go back to it, same with Riot, positive experience overall. I'm sorta reluctant to change jobs, unless there's people already there that I know so I can get a reading on the project/work environment.
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Jan 24, 2021 07:22
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Big K of Justice posted:, had him kick me out of my office at 6:30 pm to "go home", Based on one friend who used to work in games and a couple other programmers in non games I know, that's a very good thing.
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Jan 24, 2021 07:28
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Lest we forget http://soundandthefoley.com/2013/07/22/doom-doors/
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Jan 24, 2021 08:09
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Skwirl posted:Based on one friend who used to work in games and a couple other programmers in non games I know, that's a very good thing. One of the first things I was told when I started at my company was "hey now don't work late, because we don't do overtime and if you start doing it other people will think it's okay and we don't do that here" And I've repeated that to new hires since. I don't think that's typical at our studios but at pub level there's no reason to be around late. Just plan better or call out your deadlines. There's rare exceptions, depending on role, and usually around launches, but overall late/early days are rare and predictable exceptions, not the rule.
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Jan 24, 2021 15:33
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The Imp and Pinkie sounds too. The one I never miss is the Chronoshift sound from C&C:Red Alert.
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Jan 24, 2021 16:24
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Big K of Justice posted:The current studio I'm at is great, really accommodating, the owner coded engines for various consoles for 2 decades and knew his poo poo, had him kick me out of my office at 6:30 pm to "go home", You love to see it
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Jan 24, 2021 18:56
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6:30  Is this a 9 AM to 6 PM Studio? That extra hour sucks and is exhausting, imo (Also, they're all 9 hour work day studios)
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Jan 24, 2021 21:18
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Studio posted:6:30 Which they do now because everybody's working from home and there's nothing I can do to stop them 
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Jan 24, 2021 23:01
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Studio posted:6:30 Nah its 9-5 if you want it to be. Some people come in earlier, some people come in late. I hate traffic so I usually don't come in until 10-10:30. That's usually when meetings start anyways.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:23
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So recently an indie game I'm keeping an eye on mentioned that they're using photogrammetry to make some of their models, including very prominent ones like character clothes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zRdjB8s41M&t=30s Now, I've hosed about with photogrammetry back in uni some years ago, and while it could produce reasonable results even back then, I remember it being kind of a pain in the rear end to set up that also required a fair bit of cleanup afterwards. I'm surprised to that it's now in a state where it can apparently be successfully used even by tiny dev studios (this game in particular is made by 2 people). Now I wonder, how common is this technology in gamedev these days overall, as opposed to making assets by hand?
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Jan 25, 2021 12:09
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Big K of Justice posted:Nah its 9-5 if you want it to be. Some people come in earlier, some people come in late. I hate traffic so I usually don't come in until 10-10:30. That's usually when meetings start anyways. Hell yeah! Akuma posted:I don't know about that but our studio is flexible 8.5 hours between 8 and 6.30 with an hour for lunch. We often have to kick people out at 6:30 because they'd work way too many hours if we let them. If I understand this correctly, this still kinda sucks! Give those 30 minutes back 
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Jan 25, 2021 19:13
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Studio posted:Hell yeah!
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Jan 25, 2021 19:22
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Sounds like the UK works 42.5 hours a week , and that should be lower imo
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Jan 25, 2021 22:12
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Studio posted:Sounds like the UK works 42.5 hours a week No, as Akuma said above 37.5 or 40 is the norm in the UK. If I started somewhere with a 42.5 standard work week I would a) want to know why and b) make sure I was being paid accordingly.
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Jan 26, 2021 12:07
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Studio posted:Sounds like the UK works 42.5 hours a week
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Jan 26, 2021 12:41
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Are you paid for your time during the lunch break? I get that the work time situation in Finland is probably a bit different than the UK or the US but the idea of being at work for 8,5 hours a day and only counting it as 37,5 hours of work per week sounds wild to me.
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Jan 26, 2021 13:25
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You're not paid for your lunch break as standard in the UK, no.
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I dont understand why you'd pay people to eat lunch, hang out/check their phone and do personal things. Or even how you'd start defining that without forcing everyone to take their lunch break at the exact same time every day. In the US it's intentionally kept a little ambiguous - many work contracts say the salary is for a standard 9-6 with an hour for lunch, but covers up to 50 working hours in the week so there's some recourse against people who refuse to go even 1 minute over 40 to the extent of screwing their coworkers over. The phrasing is so you'll do at least 40, up to 50 but i've never seen it strictly enforced in a creative studio, it's all just legal protection if someone starts to take the piss and arrives hours late while leaving on time. Salaries arent negotiated based on an hourly rate so 37 or 42 doesn't matter. cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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Jan 26, 2021 19:12
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Necrothatcher posted:Hey Resident Evil 6 the only way I'm not seeing this "6" is if I literally turn my monitor off. Why does this persist in games? I got a calibrated display and I've played whole bunch of games where if I followed that as they say the whole game will be way too dark. Never experienced one where I couldn't make the thing disappear though.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:17
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Jan 26, 2021 23:36
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Sininu posted:Why does this persist in games? I got a calibrated display and I've played whole bunch of games where if I followed that as they say the whole game will be way too dark. Never experienced one where I couldn't make the thing disappear though. My theory and I've railed against this. Artists work in dark quarters. They keep the lights off, blinds closed and their art reflects it.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:50
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Hughlander posted:My theory and I've railed against this. Artists work in dark quarters. They keep the lights off, blinds closed and their art reflects it. I think in addition to this, artists are trying to create art and not always trying to design spaces that immediately present all available information to the player.
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Jan 27, 2021 00:33
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Hughlander posted:My theory and I've railed against this. Artists work in dark quarters. They keep the lights off, blinds closed and their art reflects it. That and trying to calibrate to tv's is always fun... HDR is NTSC [never twice the same color] 2.0. "Is it pink?Is it red? Is it salmon? Too bright? Too dark?" Who knows? Cue random game studios buying 16 models of tv from best buy to compare and hope for the best.
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cubicle gangster posted:I dont understand why you'd pay people to eat lunch, hang out/check their phone and do personal things. Or even how you'd start defining that without forcing everyone to take their lunch break at the exact same time every day. The way it works practically over here is we have a set amount of hours we're supposed to work and that includes some time for breaks. Currently I work 40 hours a week, at whatever time I want to apart from having to be online and reachable between 10:00-15:00 at least (and HR would get on my case if I regularly worked significantly more than 8 hours per day). I can take breaks for lunch or taking a walk or whatever for an hour or so total every day without clocking out. Break times weren't strictly enforced even when we weren't all working from home, just if you don't get anything done and people notice you're constantly on break it might cause some questions. I've never had a job that didn't work sort of like this; break times were paid even when I was working garbage hourly jobs while at school. Frosty Mossman fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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This is kind of far afield, but I'm looking for some help with advertising my indie game. I purchased a consult with Rami Ismail to get advice. One of his suggestions was to run some Facebook ads targeting people who have liked games like Warning Forever or Captain Forever -- basically, arcadey ship games with lots of explosions and things breaking apart and maybe a bit of a builder element to them. That sounds pretty reasonable, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to target Facebook ads based on pages people have liked. As far as I can tell, all I get is an interests browser which has hopelessly broad categories like "action games", a search box to look for more narrow interests that will pull up e.g. World of Warships but not less popular games, some very basic demographics information, and then some options regarding people who have interacted with my pages, which is nobody since I just made my game's Facebook page today. I don't suppose anyone here has advice for helping me narrow down my categories? I was hoping to target fewer than a million people with my first ad  (I don't feel like World of Warships is a particularly great match for my game; they're both naval combat games, but mine is very fast-paced, has customizable ships, is singleplayer, and has cartoony graphics, while WoW is the opposite)
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This is kind of far afield, but I'm looking for some help with advertising my indie game. I purchased a consult with Rami Ismail to get advice. One of his suggestions was to run some Facebook ads targeting people who have liked games like Warning Forever or Captain Forever -- basically, arcadey ship games with lots of explosions and things breaking apart and maybe a bit of a builder element to them. https://www.facebook.com/adsmanager/audiences => Facebook Source => Faccebook Page => Include People who Meet ANY of the following Criteria => Page <Warning Forever> <Captain Forever>
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Hughlander posted:https://www.facebook.com/adsmanager/audiences => Facebook Source => Faccebook Page => Include People who Meet ANY of the following Criteria => Page <Warning Forever> <Captain Forever> I had a brief moment of "holy poo poo it's going to work" but no, the "Facebook Page" source is limited to your pages. You don't appear to be able to use other peoples' pages as ad criteria unless you have appropriate permissions to those pages.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I had a brief moment of "holy poo poo it's going to work" but no, the "Facebook Page" source is limited to your pages. You don't appear to be able to use other peoples' pages as ad criteria unless you have appropriate permissions to those pages. It should still be possible through Audiences, I may have not clicked the right part though =/
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The language on Audiences sure sounds like it requires people to have already interacted with you: "Connect with the people who have already shown an interest in business or product with Custom Audiences" / "Reach new people who are similar to audiences you already care about" (for Custom / Lookalike audiences). That makes bootstrapping kind of difficult!
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This is kind of far afield, but I'm looking for some help with advertising my indie game. I purchased a consult with Rami Ismail to get advice. One of his suggestions was to run some Facebook ads targeting people who have liked games like Warning Forever or Captain Forever -- basically, arcadey ship games with lots of explosions and things breaking apart and maybe a bit of a builder element to them. Oh my god is Rami Ismail the reason I've started getting really bad facebook ads for obscure steam games.
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Studio posted:Oh my god is Rami Ismail the reason I've started getting really bad facebook ads for obscure steam games. I'm going to get my pitchfork and we'll put a stop to this! *Starts receiving ads on Facebook for obscure indy game about leading riots out if small rural French towns*
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Hughlander posted:My theory and I've railed against this. Artists work in dark quarters. They keep the lights off, blinds closed and their art reflects it. Show the game world when you're adjusting brightness/contrast, anything else is a mistake.
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OneEightHundred posted:It's also just a bad calibration method. High-contrast edges on a dark background are visible at very low brightness levels, so you want users to calibrate the brightness so that gray level is "barely visible" and everything below it is crushed to black? Why? They usually have two, you calibrate for dark and then for light, so you get the limits. Then it uses that as a range. Its not so crazy. But the examples are usually not very sensible to how the game really looks, agreed.
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Even on that point, there's a fun flavor of mistake that is way more common than it should be: Games using either a screenshot or something else that's supposed to be representative of a typical in-game scene, but due to HDR, rendering discrepancies between the UI and world rendering paths, default gamma not being 1.0, or any of multiple other things, the calibration image is not actually the same brightness as the game environment.
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As a graduate game designer I'm finding it just hard to find work in Australia as most people want someone with more experience or tricks up their sleeve. I've been told to look into QA roles but Melbourne seems pretty scarce in that department lately. I graduated at the end of 2018, took a gap year and then covid hit and personal stuff needed to be addressed so I'm worried I may of missed my chance to an employer seeing some slack yokel goofing off his game design and making for 3 years. any advice for a beginner just trying to find something to do?
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SirDrone posted:As a graduate game designer I'm finding it just hard to find work in Australia as most people want someone with more experience or tricks up their sleeve. I've been told to look into QA roles but Melbourne seems pretty scarce in that department lately.
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Akuma posted:Do you have a good portfolio? Honestly I haven't even gotten to the showing my portfolio stage, it's just been sending off CV's but I'm wondering if I'm doing the whole process wrong and should integrate a portfolio with my CV.
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