Bro, what? Being part of the development process doesn’t make you a developer. The hell? So you think somebody who has never even seen a line of code and manages a team of developers is a developer? You seriously want to tell me that the finance director of a construction company can call himself a builder because he manages the money needed to pay the builders? Jeff Bezos is a top paid developer at Amazon because he developed a strategy to R&D the fuck out everything and signed off on a product?
Also, I thought it was obvious that my sentence about a “programme developer” not being a software developer would make it pretty obvious, that the presence or lack of “developer” in the title isn’t the defining attribute of the job.
Make random comparisons from other industries all you want, this whole conversation is about game devs and to think that people inherently involved in the development of a game “are not developers” is absolutely part of the industry’s current problems.
This ancient attitude is the same upper management position where cutting swathes of knowledgable established QA will bring short term profits only to later hire even more fresh QAs, often contractors or outsourced.
You think QA has never seen a line of code? If we ignore what another commenter mentioned that there are high level QA jobs that are very technical, or are literally coding positions, even a lot of entry level QA also have formal education on game design. Many go on to be designers, coders, artists. Do they only become actual developers then?
What’s the imaginary line to being part of game dev to you?
Bro, what? Being part of the development process doesn’t make you a developer. The hell? So you think somebody who has never even seen a line of code and manages a team of developers is a developer? You seriously want to tell me that the finance director of a construction company can call himself a builder because he manages the money needed to pay the builders? Jeff Bezos is a top paid developer at Amazon because he developed a strategy to R&D the fuck out everything and signed off on a product?
Also, I thought it was obvious that my sentence about a “programme developer” not being a software developer would make it pretty obvious, that the presence or lack of “developer” in the title isn’t the defining attribute of the job.
Anti Commercial-AI license
lol… do you think that only coders go to gdc?
pfftt…hahahah ah, this is hilarious.
and btw, jeff doesn’t even work at amazon anymore.
Make random comparisons from other industries all you want, this whole conversation is about game devs and to think that people inherently involved in the development of a game “are not developers” is absolutely part of the industry’s current problems.
This ancient attitude is the same upper management position where cutting swathes of knowledgable established QA will bring short term profits only to later hire even more fresh QAs, often contractors or outsourced.
You think QA has never seen a line of code? If we ignore what another commenter mentioned that there are high level QA jobs that are very technical, or are literally coding positions, even a lot of entry level QA also have formal education on game design. Many go on to be designers, coders, artists. Do they only become actual developers then?
What’s the imaginary line to being part of game dev to you?