There’s absolutely no need to call QAs, product owners, HR, finance personnel, or janitors “devs” because they work in or for a gaming company. They have roles and it’s completely fine for them not to be devs.
Make random comparisons from other industries all you want
I thought it would help with understanding and provide perspective, but it seems like the shutters are down and bolted. Understanding cannot penetrate the fortress of “everybody in a gaming company is a developer”.
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.
What does this have anything to do with definition of developers? Diddly squat. Upper management will fire anybody with little to no understanding of their function because they consider everybody below them to be a number on a sheet; a replaceable cog in the machine.
You think QA has never seen a line of code?
What are you on about? Seeing a line of code doesn’t make you a developer. Reading memes about coding doesn’t make you a developer, shocker.
What’s the imaginary line to being part of game dev to you?
Being part of the game development process does not make you a developer. How many times do I have to repeat this? If you write the game, you’re a developer, otherwise you have another role on the team that is not game development. It’s that easy.
You design a character? Not a developer. You test the game? Not a developer? You develop the story and draw the art? Not a developer. None of that is writing the game’s code.
You can be both a developer and an artist, for sure, if you write the game’s code.
What are you on about? Seeing a line of code doesn’t make you a developer.
I feel like I only need to reply to this, because this is the second time I’ve directly replied to something you said using your own words, to then have you say those words don’t matter.
It also completely ignores the point I was making that some “QA” code, some pick through code, some may not understand it at all, but why are any of those not classed as developers?
You design a character? Not a developer. You test the game? Not a developer? You develop the story and draw the art? Not a developer. None of that is writing the game’s code.
You can be both a developer and an artist, for sure, if you write the game’s code.
Oh I see, so you are indeed only calling programmers developers. Absolutely unhinged take.
There’s absolutely no need to call QAs, product owners, HR, finance personnel, or janitors “devs” because they work in or for a gaming company. They have roles and it’s completely fine for them not to be devs.
I thought it would help with understanding and provide perspective, but it seems like the shutters are down and bolted. Understanding cannot penetrate the fortress of “everybody in a gaming company is a developer”.
What does this have anything to do with definition of developers? Diddly squat. Upper management will fire anybody with little to no understanding of their function because they consider everybody below them to be a number on a sheet; a replaceable cog in the machine.
What are you on about? Seeing a line of code doesn’t make you a developer. Reading memes about coding doesn’t make you a developer, shocker.
Being part of the game development process does not make you a developer. How many times do I have to repeat this? If you write the game, you’re a developer, otherwise you have another role on the team that is not game development. It’s that easy.
You design a character? Not a developer. You test the game? Not a developer? You develop the story and draw the art? Not a developer. None of that is writing the game’s code.
You can be both a developer and an artist, for sure, if you write the game’s code.
I feel like I only need to reply to this, because this is the second time I’ve directly replied to something you said using your own words, to then have you say those words don’t matter.
It also completely ignores the point I was making that some “QA” code, some pick through code, some may not understand it at all, but why are any of those not classed as developers?
Oh I see, so you are indeed only calling programmers developers. Absolutely unhinged take.