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Indie studio near me was hiring. But the wage is poor, if the game did become vastly successful there is no guarantee of anything in it for me and if it's unsuccessful I lose my job.
I didn't bother applying, they closed up a little while ago. Another I looked into on glassdoor and apparently they had been bought by private equity recently and it was turning to shit.
At this point I just can't see any reason to care about my job. I need the money, but I don't give a shit about the product of it. Just make sure my numbers look ok and don't stand out for anything, don't work too hard and go home.
I wanted to be a game developer for as long as I could remember. I remember passing out on the carpet floor because I needed a quick nap inbetween coding sessions when I was 15.
I went through uni for comp sci and graduated and got a few offers. All the gaming companies (some really big names) I got offers with paid half as much as the others. I decided my dream wasn't worth it, it's weird.