Hi do you have a very weird/niche/particular job in the video game industry? Something that would either take you 10 minutes to explain at a party or sound like it has nothing to do with making games? I would LOVE to chat with you for something. lukeATaftermathDOTsite, thanks! - ThreadSky

lukeplunkett.com • 406 days ago

Hi do you have a very weird/niche/particular job in the video game industry? Something that would either take you 10 minutes to explain at a party or sound like it has nothing to do with making games?

I would LOVE to chat with you for something. lukeATaftermathDOTsite, thanks!

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voidswithin.com•406 days ago

I had to figure out this whole stupid swing thing at GDC back in 2015. (I'm in a picture about halfway down strapping a phone on it).

https://www.engadget.com/2015-03-06-catching-up-with-bioware-cofounder-greg-zeschuk.html?guccounter=1

theoryof.games•406 days ago

Check out my guy Konstantinos who designs cities for video games: https://www.game-cities.com/

elmore.zone•405 days ago

I mean, you know where to find me lmao

mcconnell.bsky.social•405 days ago

I help manage a team of producers focused entirely on age ratings compliance at Riot. Does that count? Would understand if not!

lukeplunkett.com•405 days ago

oh absolutely, shoot me an email!

mcconnell.bsky.social•405 days ago

Will do!

mcconnell.bsky.social•404 days ago

Sent! Apologies for the delay

brandon.insertcredit.com•406 days ago

This isn't my job, but I have done a job where I had to localize an old unreleased game within stringent character limits, skipping the last character because the game would erase it, trying to get English nuance into literally 20% of the space of the Japanese original.

brandon.insertcredit.com•406 days ago

But maybe not unique enough since fan translators also have to do this!

Oh I also recommended Japanese PS1 games for the PSN shop for a while. And named all the rune magic in dragon's crown. I also got misophonia accessibility into three games. I've done a lot of small very specific jobs I guess.

benjymous.bsky.social•405 days ago

Yeah, one of my first tasks in the industry involved helping fix the translation of a PSX football (soccer) management game from English to German, but there wasn't space for the much longer German text, so it was all abbreviated massively. Also I didn't speak German, or know much about football.

dodgethis.bsky.social•405 days ago

I have a relative who was a carpenter for mocap throughout GTAV production, working day-to-day at building stairs, adjusting on the fly, and working fast to make stable construction for the humans and often live dog actors to use during mocap.

He went back to traditional carpentry shortly after.

lukeplunkett.com•405 days ago

oh if they could get in touch at the email above that would be incredible

valkerry.bsky.social•404 days ago

Here to second mocap. Those places have a lot of fun roles that make the magic happen behind the scenes.

There's also a lot in translation and loc if you're familiar with other languages.

lukeplunkett.com•406 days ago

please email since this place doesn't have DMs and ill lose replies in the threads!

lukeplunkett.com•406 days ago

like: do you answer the phone? organise trips? aren't an "artist", you're a deeply specific type who only works on a specific type of lighting? are you the person putting epilepsy warnings before title cards? im FASCINATED, tell me more!

marcsh.bsky.social•406 days ago

Ive done so much now. Gameplay, NPCs, networking, server backends, contracting for getting games shipped, getting teams on their feet

Backends is likely the most detailed unknown bit. Most MP games arent just a single server, theyre a cluster of 10 or more TYPEs of servers,

gameism.bsky.social•406 days ago

Hi, I make things fun in VR with complex 3D math but I do it with blueprint scripting and not code. When people ask me what I do for a living I have to go on a ten minute meandering walk that starts with “I’m a software developer”

Mostly a legitimate unicorn, but don’t tell anyone I actually exist😬

gameism.bsky.social•406 days ago

Career path:

1995-01: Animated on Animaniacs! Asst Animated on Space Jam.

01-05: Motion Capture/Lead Animator Midway Games

05-08: Animation/Combat Designer

08-10: MK Animator

11-16: Lead Designer/Creative Director

16-20: President/VR Developer

20-23: Live Studio Developer

23: VR Developer

burghpunk.bsky.social•406 days ago

Please interview the people at Speedtree, the company that makes trees for video games (presumably quickly?)

outriderc.bsky.social•406 days ago

oh yeah that's honestly something that would either be very boring (but nice to see) or INCREDIBLY interesting

catacalypto.bsky.social•405 days ago

there is a part of my job that’s like this but also I can’t talk about it yet.

legalminimum.bsky.social•399 days ago

I no longer have that job, but my previous jobs may be of interest.

halfcockedlaw.bsky.social•399 days ago

Hit Don up. He's friends with Master Chief.

lukeplunkett.com•399 days ago

email above, would love to chat!

legalminimum.bsky.social•399 days ago

Mail sent.

legalminimum.bsky.social•399 days ago

I'm a big fan of what you folks are trying to do and would love to help in any way I can.

sbsmith.bsky.social•406 days ago

When I was at EA mocap, we used to make a lot of bespoke tools. A funny one was for lip zippers. Your lips actually stick together when you talk and we were building really convincing facial animation tech for Battlefield 3.