Hey, everyone. I am not sure if AMA-type threads are allowed, didn't see any restrictions against that.
After participating in certain threads over my stay here, I noticed that a lot of people have interesting questions about the nature of game development, and sometimes it can be difficult to catch all of them. So I figured, considering that I wish for more transparency and less industry secrecy myself (even though it is not always feasible on a project/company level), it would be worthy to create a thread where people who are not part of the game industry can ask questions to game industry professionals, and get answers.
I will try to reply to as many questions as I reasonably can myself, but I invite any willing game dev to do so as well.
When it comes to me, I have 10-year experience in the field. Started as QA at EA for Origin, then worked as a designer back home in Moldova for a mobile company, then had a 6 years experience at Ubisoft in Kyiv and Bucharest (been a GD for Trials Fusion and Trials of the Blood Dragon, the Lead Designer on Trials Rising project, one of Lead GDs on Watch Dogs Legion and briefly one of leads on Rainbow Six Six Extraction), and now am back in mobile space again.
Have a burning game industry or simply gaming-related question that you'd like to hear a game dev reply to? Ask away!
EDIT: If you don't see your question answered straight away that might happen when me or someone else have more time to properly answer it.
After participating in certain threads over my stay here, I noticed that a lot of people have interesting questions about the nature of game development, and sometimes it can be difficult to catch all of them. So I figured, considering that I wish for more transparency and less industry secrecy myself (even though it is not always feasible on a project/company level), it would be worthy to create a thread where people who are not part of the game industry can ask questions to game industry professionals, and get answers.
I will try to reply to as many questions as I reasonably can myself, but I invite any willing game dev to do so as well.
When it comes to me, I have 10-year experience in the field. Started as QA at EA for Origin, then worked as a designer back home in Moldova for a mobile company, then had a 6 years experience at Ubisoft in Kyiv and Bucharest (been a GD for Trials Fusion and Trials of the Blood Dragon, the Lead Designer on Trials Rising project, one of Lead GDs on Watch Dogs Legion and briefly one of leads on Rainbow Six Six Extraction), and now am back in mobile space again.
Have a burning game industry or simply gaming-related question that you'd like to hear a game dev reply to? Ask away!
EDIT: If you don't see your question answered straight away that might happen when me or someone else have more time to properly answer it.
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