one of the things that annoys me most about the games industry is this notion of the ONE team member that does EVERY SINGLE THING that is not making the game marketing x producer x biz dev x finance x publishing x i dunno, probably legal too don't have a solution i'd just like to complain, thanks - ThreadSky

hellomisspotter.com • 78 days ago

one of the things that annoys me most about the games industry is this notion of the ONE team member that does EVERY SINGLE THING that is not making the game

marketing x producer x biz dev x finance x publishing x i dunno, probably legal too

don't have a solution i'd just like to complain, thanks

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emredeniz.bsky.social•78 days ago

you work on games you make games end of discuss I am magistrate I have made ruling

community manager = gamedev
producer = gamedev
marketer = gamedev
finance = annoying gamedev
publisher = gamedev
gamer = NOT GAMEDEV

Final no appeals

hellomisspotter.com•78 days ago

i agree, i just don't think those roles should all be one person

emredeniz.bsky.social•78 days ago

ooooooooooooo misread yes; they are all fulltime careers of professionals that deserve parity market rates with other domains.

hellomisspotter.com•78 days ago

it happens in start-ups too, but i feel like because other businesses typically scale more efficiently it is usually a shorter term problem

ddsd.dolsen.net•78 days ago

Usually start ups implode pretty fast so it's not that person's job to do everything for very long.

hellomisspotter.com•78 days ago

yeah I guess one way or another a resolution is found, sure, in games it seems to go on forever

hellomisspotter.com•78 days ago

obviously, this usually means none of those things get done particularly well, or best case scenario, only one of them is done well (the person's actual skillset)

what a great, terrible, self-fulfilling ouroboros :)

stefpeacock.bsky.social•78 days ago

🙂‍↕️

hellomisspotter.com•78 days ago

stefpeacock.bsky.social•78 days ago

its so exhausting eh 🫠

hellomisspotter.com•78 days ago

i do not want to learn production but it appears it may be inevitable

stefpeacock.bsky.social•78 days ago

as a fellow indie juggler, THATS SO MANY HATS AMY 🫠godspeed 🫡

stefpeacock.bsky.social•78 days ago

(I also don't have a solution but you have my support ❤️)

bettywarlock.bsky.social•78 days ago

In all the years I've been making games I've never seen a good answer to this, other than "hire more staff" which is not always doable. I've seen some ugly things happen too, when someone didn't understand accounting, or how certain laws work, because their primary skills are elsewhere. 🫤

jairmcbain.bsky.social•78 days ago

What if true, but also make game 🥹 halp

hellomisspotter.com•77 days ago

Definitely also a problem! I personally think it gets worse when it's 2 people though, because solo dev is usually the one "hiring in" the help, and now there is an imbalance of power where the hired feels like they need to do everything even if they are not good at it

hellomisspotter.com•77 days ago

At least as a solo dev you can drop the balls you wanna drop, you're aware you're dropping them, your expectations are your own to manage etc

Def still very difficult though, obvs! Shouldn't be the case either.

bsg-joel.bsky.social•78 days ago

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