Post Your Pics Thread?

Way to prove them wrong. ^ J's always been a winner.

These days I'm mostly a MMO server / gameplay engine programmer. C/C++ mostly, although with the way the industry is going, I've had to pick up a lot of webbie LAMP stuff.

I'm the guy that codes in the underlying mechanics for things like physics, collision, pathfinding, network stack, combat, magic, crafting, etc. Although I just lay the engine groundwork -- it's usually Content designers who come by later and populate the framework with individual spells, items, stats, etc.

So you basically lay the foundation of the game down, right?

I lol'd so hard at this.

(not in a bad way)

You remind me of someone I know, but I can't figure out who...

As much as I love programming, that sounds like too much work for me.

heres my rl pic!

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everbody was kung fu fighting!!!!

I see a hole in those pants that shows something I'd rather not see :P

coulda swore i just saw you on the news lol

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lesbian_prom_date

She reminds me a little bit of Felicia Day from Doctor Horrible.


Right. Usually it's Designers who go through and fill in the coders' framework with actual items, spells, classes, etc later.

Programmers like myself program the engine and give them tools to do so, but generally those things are not hard-coded. For instance, programmers do not code Anduril directly into the game. We program in the framework for weapons, combat, items, stats, monster drop rates, loot tables, etc. We just don't populate them.

Some time later, a legion of zone/item designers (the ratio of designers to programmers is sometimes 10:1 at some companies) comes along and, along with a model from an artist, "creates" Anduril by basically populating a spreadsheet of stat values, the item's drop rate, etc. Once the framework is there, it only takes a Designer like... 2-3 minutes, to create say... Excalibur. There is nothing more innately complex or valuable about a relic weapon from the programmers'/designers' perspective, which is why we have a hard time getting worked up over them as players.


Eh, it's years of work before the game is released, but once it's Live your job is mostly over. (Sometimes they even reassign you to another project immediately.) At that point, additions to the game / expansions / etc are just laid down by Designers over the framework you provided, and you rarely have to step in and program anything new unless they make a major structural change to the game.

Sounds like a lot of work but very interesting.

wooooo brooo watch that thing there.

It seems more efficient to just have some programmers stay on as designers afterwards... who could possibly understand the framework as much as them? It sounds like you guys are the grunts doing the hard work and the designers get the cushy job in the end. Those ***!

Of course I'm just assuming because I know nothing, BUT THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE! >:O

It would be, except generally the programmers get paid a boatload more. =) We also get the interesting problems to solve. The designers tend to just sit there putting numbers into Excel for months.

But that also means if you have a problem with say, weapon balance, or an item's drop rate, or a mob's spawn cycle, or class/spell balance, you shouldn't blame the programmers, 'cuz they had nothing to do with it and were probably transferred to another project the moment the game went Live anyway.

Yeah, I can see the resemblance.

That's pretty interesting. I always wanted to get into the game design field, but I've never put forth the effort. It seems like a rough field to get into.

Though that's pretty much any IT field these days.

Edit: I finally remembered who she reminds me of. Friend from back home that I haven't talked to or seen in a couple years.

lies!

lol Krizz, it's ok that you chuckle at me! That was kind of a funny pic, what with me not expecting it, and a Hershey bar on my lap with mouth full of s'mores. I'll have to try and find a better pic to put up later. I'm sorta flattered about the Felicia Day thing, that girl is gorgeous! You guys are too sweet. Maybe if I temp-dyed my hair red and ditched my glasses, I could be her for Halloween next year. ^^

can you kindly remove this pic, we do have kids, very young kids that do read the forum.

kinda hurt :(

Naw, nothing wrong with the pic.

i don't mind the pic, but on another note, as a mother, i wouldn't be happy if my daughter seen that. it can stay up idc, just thinking about the kids that do read the forums, thats all. i guess it just the mother in me that came out.

Different pic, lol. I was talking about Liela's.

lmao opps missed your quote

I did not want to leave! Trust me but I was hacked and the hacker actually moved me to a new server! and sold all of my items and got my account suspended as well. I miss being on Odin but I cannot leave Pandy now! I made an awesome friend that I cannot leave from Pandy :)

{I'm back!} It's Saturday night yo, what's happenin'

He be sexy

Zomgah, Jaerik. Trumping my supposed "adorableness" with your epic life story?

I'm only forgiving you because you know of Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog.

Of which I can sing every single song INCLUDING those from Commentary! The Musical.

BEAT THAT, RIPPED-YET-INTELLIGENT PROGRAMMER/FORMER A&F MODEL ADMINISTRATOR.

Me 2 years ago.

I don't think anything can trump your adorableness.

Except maybe Kermit the Frog at work. That's way adorable. Even then, it's still a maybe!

<3 Anye