If someone offered you 100k salary to work in the video game industry which position would you take?

Playtester

Character artist. It's what I do anyway but at least now I'd have a job doing it

that would be a pay cut for me so I'd turn them down

Producer. Micromanage a bunch of bullshit, insist on implementing lootboxes and then fire everyone with actual talent once the game is finished. Easy money.

Show me

Director or art director

sanitation worker. they get to deal with less shit than everyone else and usually aren't scheduled for more than 40 hours per week.

I would not take the job

>tfw when no idea what i want to do in life
im sure this is a common feel, but still. wageslave atm, i dont hate it desu. really dont want to go to college either.

a security guard

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Director. Get to have games be made the way I want instead of relying on out of touch 50 yo japs

Screenwriter. Should be fun.

what are you good at? do you have any useful trade skills or experience? do you have a plan? without a plan you are just spinning your wheels, doesn't matter what the fuck you do.

100k AND I get to choose to do whatever?? On 100k a year free money I would develop games mostly by myself, filling the parts I can't or don't feel like doing myself with contractors I take on for very specific tasks such as sound effects, music, animations. all the crucial under the hood stuff I would just learn myself. if you allow me to act like a control freak I will.

lead programmer

producer and lead designer

janitor, same brainless, easy job that i do now but now i get 100k salary for it

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>be the first one fucked when gamers rise up

No thanks.

Ideas guy is literally the best job
you can do literally anything you want with zero of the effort and hardwork you need

Base and ideapilled.

that's why it's not a job at all.

creative director
I don't even know what that means

Whatever's the easiest and lets me fuck around not doing any meaningful work since I'm getting 100k for it anyway. Probably HR management or public relations officer then.

This.
All you have to do is provide detailed feedback and show them bugs and shit.

Uhh, I'd have the best role of all. The player.

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>which position would you take?
doggy style

Im a drawfag so character designer/concept artist/animation or something within that realm.

um...... pla.....yer?....? wha?....... ummmm.....
user.....

This. Get paid 100k year to do nothing but send some tweets here and there

You'll enjoy opening this door for the 178th time in a different way with a different inventory at a different time of the day.

angry divisive tranny who makes everyones lives hell

So the level designer then.

I wish I could do something more fulfilling with my life. I have a business information systems degree and work in recruitment but its so mind numbing and pointless. I spend my lunch breaks looking up ways to kill myself but making it look like an accident.

no

Graphics/effects programmer. There's a lot of interesting linear algebra and computational physics going on down there, and programming for GPUs is fun in its own quite masochistic way

Don't kill yourself.

Janitor

>Think about something you can realistically do
>Save enough money
>Do the thing
It's not that hard, user

the Yea Forums shiller if the game is redpill

I'm getting in the industry as a programmer, what position should I aim for to be able to have creative decisions over the game?
I've been enjoying myself the last 5 year doing tabletop rpg as a GM and I want to create things, not to be the code monkey.

life is overrated, every single day you see the same exact shit, people doing the same exact shit.
if you die tomorrow nothing makes a difference only you dont have to deal with that shit anymore.

Minority representation & quippy dialogue expert

Mocap actor

Why not? I've wanted to do it for years. I kept delayed it to see if I'd change my mind but I'm nearly 29 now and still havent changed my mind.

Then maybe change your life or your attitude about life?
You obviously don't really want to kill yourself because otherwise you'd done it by now

Been there. Changed everything. Got therapy, sold house, ended relationship, quit job. Just a total do-over (at my 31th).

Make your own damn game. You will always be a code monkey when you enter the games industry. Just get the experience you need in a professional environment and make your own during your free time. Good luck.

For that kind of money they could assign me to shovel up goat shit eight hours a day from the goats they keep to eat down the grass on the property, if they wanted.

>I'm nearly 29 now and still havent changed my mind
but youre still alive tho retard. ffs you're never serious with killing yourself, youre a fucking attention whore like those tumblr faggots that cry depression and muh suicidal for easy likes and follows. youre a fucking faggot, thats all.

Why are there so manycdrama queens who want to kill themselves on this board?

Sysadmin.

the kys memes finally got to them

Director

It's understandable, though
Some people, me and a lot of others included, don't have people to tell them not to do it
I only live because I'm too stubborn to kill myself, as in I live out of pure spite

sjw worker executioner

Lead writer

I don't have a house or a relationship.

being a giant fucking faggot is addictive i guess

Janitor.

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Localization. Is chill.

>I live out of pure spite
Literally me. The thing stopping me is I'd be furious with people feeling sorry for my parents and older brother instead of feeling sorry for me.

Creative Director.
They're paid to fuck around all day then take the blame if that game is bad.

>as in I live out of pure spite
this is how you get mass shooters

Not in my case as I'm a law fag. I never break the law. I don't even drive over the speed limit.

>Wanting to clean toilets for 100k
Well, I guess someone has to do it.

If you do this though, have a bit of healthy paranoia and be mindful of your work contract. It's not uncommon for those to have clauses in there about personal side-projects being property of the company if you use company resources, work on them while on the clock, or can be shown to have gotten the idea while engaging with company IP. Basically if you use them to springboard your skillset, never mention your own project to anyone in the office or bring it onto the property, and forever deny having come up with the concept or worked on it while employed there.

I get you bro. All of my friends are either upcoming teachers, doctors, therapists etc. I worked in a shitty IT-Technician position, quit and went to University which I am failing hilariously. I just wanna end it all.

see you in the next headline fucko

I'm not even american lol. I wouldnt even know where to get a gun in my country

Not really, I don't harbor any negative feelings for humanity nor am I interested to "punish" anyone
These are just the cards I've been dealt and I'll live with those feelings
Crying about it and being hopeless is such an easy thing to do that I refuse to do it
It's shitty now, maybe tomorrow will be better

That guy that sits on the bean bag chair all day tweeting about the president.

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This. If that doesn't count
This

not really, our job usually is to try to make something fun out of the many really bad ideas the creative director has.

I'd take a pay cut if I could get the job of staying home and tweeting about social justice

What you studying in university?

The guy who designs the gameplay mechanics. Not sure what that's called.

Make really shitty music.

Game designer

just do it, it's probably not gonna get any better
and 'muh thinking about it' doesn't cut it, just get a helium tank

Teaching profession. I chose Computer Science and English as my subjects but changed CS into Geography and Economics.

Community manager

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The one that requires least work.

someone offered me that a couple months ago and I took it (tools programmer)

I just want to be a community manager/big game director so I can go on twitter and tell Randy and Cliffy to fuck off.
Petty, but what I you do

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Neither of these is what QA is. If you are in QA and your task is to jump into the same part of a level all day to test collision under 100 different conditions that clearly don't affect collision, you're on that task because you're too retarded to be put on something important but they need bodies for MP tests

You like it?

I wish I had autism so I could be good at programming. I hate this shit I'm doing in college. I'm only doing it for the well paid job.

Company rapist

I'm just fucking around, I know level designers are very important in making a game fun.

repro this bug I don't have time to by jumping on this box 1000 times to try to repro the one time where the jump stops working properly

I wish QA could actually be used as real testers, as in come over here bro, sit down play my level and tell me what you think needs improving, but most places don't allow them to do that.

Management.

I would not take A job.

All the more reason to not work a dead end job that makes you suicidal.

Of Nintendo hired me I would just make a Twitter account for Wario.

Yeah. I love the profession but I fucking hate University. My University is an absolute shitfest when it comes to organization. Professors often forget to check your grade into the system, which results in you being not able to take next courses and you can't do shit about it. Also people are always stressed or pissed of. You basically go to university, listen to some lectures and go home and study for hours without talking to anyone.

DESU not always

'you've been in QA for a year? you never made a level before, not even for a mod team? Oh yeah you're totally qualified to to make the first level for this FPS, and we're making it a stealth map that needs custom scripting since we don't have an awareness system or cooldown for our AI'

^ this actually happened on one infamously bad EA game I worked on

Why are CS professors usually so fucking lazy? It's happened to me, it's happened to friends at other universities, and it's clearly happening to you. I had one who was really great and on top of everything, but he wasn't even there full-time. What's so hard about actually grading your shit? This is what they get paid to do

>be a regular highschool kid
>have a super best friend (no homo, but close enough)
>spend all our time gaming together, always buy the same games so we could play with/against each other
>always talk about making the perfect vidya together, we have like a thousand amazing ideas
>after highschool, we both go to the same university to study CS and make our dream come true
>he drops out after the first year to study psychology
>he slowly turns into an insufferable cunt
>I slowly turn into a bitter antisocial nerd
>lose all desire to make vidya
>end up at a soul-killingly bland job as a back-end developer for a major financial institution

I mean it's a secure job and the pay isn't bad, but it's literally impossible to give a shit about the work. Why's it gotta be like this man?

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>but most places don't allow them to do that.
Typically all employees at a studio are eligible for playtesting, but you are still expected to do your job during work hours(QA in this case). Usually playtesters are brought in from outside so that they have no preconceived notions about what the game should be. But, at almost every studio, game designers are open to their colleagues walking in their office and chatting about specific features.

The exception to this would be if you're a third party QA contractor that doesn't actually work for the company.

Wow I'd have to take a pay cut of over 100k. I'd take being on the credits as producer if I can get by with no work.

Like I say, if you can't repro within an hour, it's not seen, don't waste any more time on it. I'm just tired of all the bullshit stories out there about what QA is, or what it should be, or how we should be treated like devs (no we fucking shouldn't, fuck off commies)

Professors live or die based on the number of publications their grad students put out. They only teach because they're contractually obligated, otherwise they wouldn't.

Here's the weird shit, I went to an undergrad-only college. He was actually incapable of any publications unless he did the entire thing himself, and he definitely wasn't doing that at the time.

To be fair this happened to me in English, but I get your point. Studying CS as a teaching profession is a whole other story in my country. It's the biggest meme. They took the whole bachelors course, cancelled some lectures and call it "CS teaching course". Literally nobody studies CS as a teaching subject. If some peole are actually doing it, they don't become teachers but they search work in the IT sector because it pays better.

>let me take you away from doing your job for 30+ mins to tell me what you think about my level

>we have these people who are paid to play the game and understand the mechanics but they're not allowed to come run through your level with you because we need them to run into a wall for 2 hours to test collision in content that's all going to be replaced

Monster designer, I can draw dicks everywhere and pretentious fucks will love my art.

narrative designer

QA people are not better or worse, more or less valuable at playtesting than anyone else. They have the same opportunities to playtest as other people in the company, and have the same channels to report feedback as others as well.

game journalist who writes paid reviews

Testers are not inherently qualified to weigh in on what is and isn't good level, game or mechanic design. Some are, but it's not guaranteed. The only thing close to that I would concede is that as QA we get an overview of how everything fits together that much of the team does not, and sometimes we are embedded with depts and have the opportunity to offer feedback that contributes to changes (the much praised control scheme for my last studios ps4 title, which made use of the touch pad in a neat little way for one of our mechanics was my idea) but in general, QA are not there to give feedback to designers on how their level should be. We're there to write and run tests to make sure it all works.

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HR.
Let the tears roll, motherfucker.

That's the joke.

Lead designer

I should also add, that there's a practice of backseat designing done by some QA where they write tickets about game design flaws they think they've found. They dress up their ideas for changes as a legitimate bug and suggest the fix for it to be what they want to see instead.
Its very frowned upon.

I go to some exotic location and tell the devs all the cool shit I saw there so they can design their world after it.

>all these writer jews itt
You won't see 20k of that money before they fire you. Game writers have worse job security than the IT Helpdesk guy or the diversity hires.

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That actually sorta exists. I worked on a very well known crime sim game years ago and for reference we had thousands and thousands of pictures taken all over LA on a few dedicated r and d trips.

So a location scout?
Hopefully they don't send you to Mexico or some shit, you'll get killed pretty quickly

Whatever the easiest one is

Uh duh, the companies majority shareowner.

I am a Venture Capitalist and invest in game or gaming related projects/start-ups and my god are creative people the most annoying cunts to be encountered by mankind. The STEM types that actually make the development happen are usually pretty autistic but workable when you set strict discipline and give them acces to incubator support, but the designers and writers are driving me up the wall

>Nah we cant do that because people wont like it

After presenting customer survey data that is statistically significant in the almost opposite direction of what they are claiming

>Nah that is not *insert political bs, usually progressive bs*

Dont give a fuck, we are not selling to blue haired hyper trannies. They are not our target market.

>I worked on X and Y project and we did this and it worked out fine, also when I am getting a permanent position?

I dont give a fuck what worked in the previous job, this ain't a fucking moba, but a male oriented sim. Also, permanent position? hahahahahaha

Designers are fucking faggots. I feel bad for the CEO's of start-ups because they have to deal with this necessary evil.

Battlefront?

Nigger lyncher

why would I take a pay cut to work more

this

the guy who adjusted abilities numbers and %s and everything for balance purposes

Pic related's carer.
>Occasionally make him tendies
>Daily 7/11 run for him
>Play with his cat
>Chat about dwarf fortress stuff every day
>Get to play test new versions

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sorry, can't hear you over the bank I made writing a book spin off of the hit game for which I got fired after making

Could be worse. You could work in a warehouse.

If my position is guaranteed would an ironclad contract something easy like Quality Control Coordinator.
If after 90 days I’d be cut loose cuz my position is worthless, I’d take a Level/World Designer.

>actually thinking this
they would sue you into oblivion, sweetie

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Another one I would like to add

>Designer/writer: Lel let me tweet out something that would alienate our potential customer base or something compromising about the product development

What the fuck are you doing, are you trying to tank our release? I usually give everyone involved on the project a twitter ban about the game for 3 months when approaching release.

This. Or writer.

What if I wrote and published the book right before getting canned

You do know that they make you sign the contract before you get hired, not after you get fired, right?

None, I make more money right now in a not shitty industry.

Oh yeah? What's the book's title?

>Fuck fest one: the shit fisted faggot

Writer. I could cobble together some fanfic tier piece of shit story while not even worrying if the gameplay matches up with it in half an hour, then sit back for the rest of the year. Easy money. I'd probably be lauded as a genius if I worked in some ankle deep mature themes for mature gamers, too.

>you can't be an "idea guy," the industry doesn't work like that!
So where do ideas come from? Somebody has to supply the innovation and new features. They don't just materialize out of thin air.

I'm willing to bet that idea guys exist, but most people aren't cut out to be one because it's more work than they thought and they overestimate the quality of their ideas. Or does everybody on the team just supply a little bit of ideas at a time?

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None because I'm not qualified for any of them.

What if you were anonymously contacted, provided with free travel to U.S. and the necessary equipment to make the headlines

it's called game designer and they do a lot more than just think up ideas

the problem is that most indie teams aren't large enough to support a dedicated game designer

Because life fucking sucks? What kind of a stupid question is that?

Game designer/programmer

Enviroment Designer.

>I'd probably be lauded as a genius if I worked in some ankle deep mature themes for mature gamers, too.
Nope because that would be niche work and niche work does not sell in a high stakes industry. Unless you go full indy, but that is not big profits.

Whatever is easiest. If I'm taking a pay cut like that, I better not be stressed.

Nah. Too lazy.

Narrative director

Whats a reasonably stress free job that pays well thats not difficultly to break into?

>I'm willing to bet that idea guys exist
The thing isn't that you can't be an idea guy, it's that you can't be JUST an idea guy. Idea guys are the directors, project leads or game designers, all of which involve a lot more than just coming up with cool ideas.

>Or does everybody on the team just supply a little bit of ideas at a time?
That's often how it works in smaller (indie) studios, but wouldn't be feasible in larger developers. I know some studios allow any employee to pitch ideas (Valve is especially big on this), but it's rare that a game actually gets made like that unless the guy pitching the idea is already well-known for other (successful) games.

This. It would be great being able to help produce innovative mechanics in a stagnating industry.

How good did that first level turn out?

composer

janitor

I am you

HR or janitor

Human Resources so I can leave at 5 pm, fuck the uglies, and hire in trannies

None
welcome to capitalism. Your choices are 1) be poor 2) be born rich 3) work until you die

Is 100K considered a lot of money for a salary these days?

How would that be niche? Plenty of incredibly high selling AAA games have quasi-mature themes that people jack off to and laud as THE CITIZEN KANE OF GAMING.

Coffee machine maintenance man.

How come I don't get paid well even though I studied a stem degree?

Balancing team
How are there only two of us? I got fed up with game balance awhile ago so I've started modding to balance the games myself and I can't stop, I actually love it.

E-sports player :^)

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Dirty code monkey for life

Yes and now tell me how many of those games were released post 2008? And I mean not part of a franchise or only contained "elements" of maturity.

Try releasing cod WaW in this day and age. Or Command and Conquer Generals. lel. Goodluck convincing investors.

social media manager

Wtf yes, In Western Europe you are upper class if you make that.

What’s boring about recruiting? You hand select the finest candidates for your work, dig through to make sure they’re qualified and shit test them to see if they’re lying. That’d be fun. You’re like a corporate detective.

I like orange

If I wanted to secure a future? Marketing or data analytics for a video game company.
If I wanted to sit back? HR man. HR sounds fucking cushy as fuck.

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Community manager —> official shill, tweet and make forum posts, dye hair pink/purple, wear UNIONIZE button next to Hatsune Miku Hutton, dye armpit hair rainbow colored, get reassignment surgery, representation is video games is important

janitor

rent free

What did you major in?

I'm in medical recruitment for doctors in hospitals. We have to deal with there expenses and shit too. Its not purely recruitment

No, its basically nothing

CEO
Wouldn't do a thing. Just let the company run itself into the ground and then sell it off to EA or something.

Medical Microbiology. I work in the BioPharma industry in a Microbiology lab. I get paid 14 Euro an hour.

I'll give you a couple, maybe then you can figure out what I meant by "mature" themes so you stop sounding so retarded, user.
>TLOU works in some father-daughter, teenie harvesting story
>makes money hand over first and is still fellated as the greatest game of all time
>Gone Home is a literal walking sim but has a gay angle to it, wins multiple GOTYs despite being able to be beaten in 47 seconds.
This really isn't as hard to understand as you're making it user, but god bless you.

Depending on where you live it's either a good wage or shit. Stay away from the coasts and you'll be fine.

More pay = more stress and sacrifice

We all love to bitch and moan about CEOs making multimillion dollar packages and buying expensive houses and cars, but the fact is they work 24/7 and never get to enjoy any of it.

What do you do for a living?

Slightly more lame. I was picturing game studio and you’re the “I’m putting together a team” guy. Can you scream at em? I would UNLOAD on some doctors with outrageous expenses.

100k is considered upper class everywhere in the world. No, it’s not a million dollars obviously, but you’ll never struggle for money and can afford everything except the mega mansions, yachts, and super cars.

Yeah and now imagine you are a rookie writer entering the industry.

Security Guard for a game company. $100,000 is a steal, and I could spend most of the time playing games while pretending to watch monitorsl feeds.

Yea bio degrees dont pay to well. At least you're passionate about it (I hope).

I'm not passionate about it whatsoever. I hate it and hated college too. I only did it because people said you have to do stem degree.

that's pretty much the director's job. issue is you only get to that position after years of already working in the industry in other positions.

you might as well be homeless tbqh

Huh, wow. I live in Canada and stumbled into a trade after school and by the time I'm done my apprenticeship will be making about 90k, easy 100 with OT(I'm not bullshitting all the guys I work with pull this). I guess I should really count myself lucky. I know 6 figures used to be a big deal but I assumed inflation these days was making it more common.

You aren't a high roller but you can live without money being an issue, which is my personal endgame.

You should've went for comp bio or something, biology is one of the worst paying stem fields. I hope it gets better for you in the future.

Night shift at the warehouse

Become COO and take a fat bonus while increasing my pay.

Otherwise I already make more and wouldn't take the job at all.

I would have been better off doing a brain dead business degree

This.

/bread

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I wonder what the PPP per capita is when one compares Canada with Western Europe?

I'm not sure but that would be interesting to know.

Some sort of management job where I ok or kill ideas and constantly throw out my own

I'm not at anything video game wise. I guess marketing director or something and just shill the games on here

QA because nowadays it involves designing and programming automation systems for testing. For example, in webdev there's Selenium.

this. just shitpost all day

Lead project manager. I decide the direction of the art direction, platforms we release on, depth of the story/lore, single player or multiplayer focus, fps/3rd person/isometric camera and meme potential.
Most of my job will be done within the first 2 days, the rest is spent dicking around the office and annoying my staff with inane questions and general sexual harassment. If questioned about what I'm doing then its always 'working on the meme potential'

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Why not fund japanese studios? Better work ethic and thry make cool shit.

>Dont give a fuck, we are not selling to blue haired hyper trannies. They are not our target market.
Its time for you to find a different market to fund and get out of video games. Let the crash happen if thats what the creative types want.

Loli designer

Aren't titles such as...
>project lead
>project manager
>lead designer
...basically "the main idea guy"s?

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Consultant lmao

Best gif ever

Wrong
>make sure the code monkeys code the right way
>make sure the plebs are working
>make sure the artists follow the director's vision based on directives from producer

Janitor

bottom part of reverse cowgirl

Sole developer

I'd take a place on the writing team. Can't code for shit but I know to create a story with interesting characters. Hundred grand for doing what I love.

Play tester.
>Spend my work hours pissing around finding glitches, the most fun part of any game
>Spend the good wage on building my artistic skillset and portfolio

>leads are just people making sure other people are on track
why are they paid so much?

because they have to understand everyone else's jobs, while everyone else gets to focus on one job.

Head chef in a major studio's cafeteria I guess. Closest to my current job with twice the pay for some work I'd still find enjoyment in.

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I hope you burn in hell you idea fucker.

switch to front end or full stack. People always underestimate the backend guys.
Also business execs like seeing UIs and whatnot so they can have a opinion on where certain things are and feel like they are contributing.

Do you guys occasionally fantasize and daydream about being fucking rich as fuck and buying your favorite studio and all the rights of their IPs from their former publishers and just 24/7 overseeing and managing your new studio's work on your favorite franchise all the way from voice actor choices to the smallest gameplay mechanics?

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Could you imagine being head of HR/PR in a big modern studio nowadays? Sounds insufferable.

All the time.

Janitor

So based