On 06/06/2011 07:31 AM, Tim Mensch wrote:
On 6/6/2011 7:32 AM, Fred Howe wrote:
Hey Aaron - do you know of any good android developers who also have
at least 3 yrs of java? I know of a start-up company doing some cool
gaming projects. Pay is good. Let me know.
It looks like you didn't mean to send this to the list, but I can't help
myself -- why would they be looking at three years of Java for an
Android developer? Most game developers I know have years of C/C++
experience, and I would be far more confident hiring an experienced game
developer than hiring an experienced Java developer.
Frankly, making the C/C++ to Java transition is pretty easy -- a few
weeks at most to get to 95%. But making the transition from non-game
programmer to game programmer can take months or years. And some
programmers never really figure out game development (I've encountered
several in that category with years of experience).
Tim
Back during the 1990s it was hard to find people who could do game
programming or more particularly deal with hard deadlines that execs
cook up to tell the analysts. DOD programmers were particularly
difficult to get make something come in on schedule. Tim did some good
contract work for my company too. I tend to agree that Java is fairly
easy for a experienced C/C++ programmer. I am often moving code back
and forth between those two languages and often it is just changing the
function call or how a pointer works. Inside the function it may be the
exact same code.
We also hired some young programmers who weren't happy because we didn't
immediately let the become a game designer. So we started a little
program where anyone in the company could submit a game proposal. What
people learned from that was they weren't game designers. :-D
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