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v buckenham Profile picture
@v21
Jun 7, 2020 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
#GameDevPaidMe
2011: £21.5k /year
2012: 20,000 DKK /month (freelance)
2015: £25k /year + shares
2017: same job as ^^, but part time: £42k FTE
2019: £100k /year + options & nicer benefits
all roles except the last in small studios where i was doing programming & some design. now i'm at a large company (joined via acquisition) doing just game design (as a lead)
have been in London the whole time, but some work was remote (can probably guess which from the currency)
also, a good amount of time in the middle where I was also doing some contracting, curation work, commissions, having a Patreon, etc - happy to talk about that if folks find it useful, although it was never the majority of my income.

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Dec 5, 2022
it seems very possible that we are now exiting the brief window where a good fraction of all of human knowledge was searchable & instantly available. a window that starts with the invention of the search engine & ends with the invention of large language models.
the goldilocks period between too hard to access & too hard to discern from bullshit
this thread prompted by this thread: woof.group/@aphyr/1094583…
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Dec 4, 2022
the AI code generation stuff i've seen doesn't seem like it's much beyond what github copilot could do? just with a different interface. and i tried using copilot for a bit but turned it off because it had the same keybindings as regular autocomplete
and regular autocomplete was more limited but also told me things that were almost always true, rather than 80% true. and it turns out the problem isn't coding, but instead understanding the problem & understanding how the current code works.
and it is easier to understand code you just wrote, rather than code a ML model just hallucinated. if it was a coworker's code you could trust some aspects, you could build a mental model of what they were going for, you could believe that a plausible variable name would resolve.
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Sep 4, 2022
what colour is the Sun?
(no, not white, for the purposes of this tweet that is not a colour)
I guess my contention is that it isn't really a perceivable colour, as we perceive colour as (in most circumstances) relative to the colour of the light sources illuminating them. And if you can see the sun it's almost certainly the dominant source of light.
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Sep 13, 2020
two forms of media I see a lot of are:
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- tiktoks & memes which are all about evoking a vibe, a mood, juxtaposition, fragmentary worldbuilding, not even staking a claim on fiction
against which it's kind of interesting to think about David Lynch, who has been around since before the turn to puzzlebox narrative, and is now in vogue again
I place those two trends in opposition to each other, but also works can embody both of them at the same time : Petscop, SCP, Blaseball
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Sep 13, 2020
microbes on Venus?!!
(leak of an embargoed announcement for tomorrow says they've found phosphine in the upper atmosphere, and they can't think of any good processes to produce that that aren't microbes)
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have been enjoying Good Sudoku - the way I play it is I play on Pro and solve most of it and then I hit the hint button so it'll tell me where the Y Wing is
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but Good Sudoku makes it more about the act of recognising patterns, and that can be nice
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