Hacker News: sadpolishdev

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Please stop the coding challenges"

sadpolishdev — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:41:18 +0000

>please stop the coding challenges sounds like someone didn't pass coding challenge

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Please stop the coding challenges"

sadpolishdev — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:40:31 +0000

>please stop the coding challenges sounds like someone didn't pass through coding challenge

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative"

sadpolishdev — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:00:34 +0000

So, this one will be left or right wing politically controlled?

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies"

sadpolishdev — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 09:59:12 +0000

so is gamedev so is gastro so is public services so is almost anything that isnt some high-level IT stuff, breaking news

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Where Have All the Websites Gone?"

sadpolishdev — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:11:47 +0000

Internet centralized itself around few corporations, people don't want to selfhost/self publish websites, I have own devlog on github pages, and when I try to convince friends who do interesting things to start writing about them, its always "I'll just post on twitter" or "i'llshow some screens on discord" etc. Internet shrank in recent years greatly, with more and more dead places that are not updated being closed down due to hosting issues or simply lack of interest from original authors. It gets sadder when one of corporation suddenly decides that whole genre of things is not welcomed and/or just simply pull the plug on certain functionality/content.

Same goes with old phpbb forums - everyone sits on various discords, and places-pockets of knowledge dies one by one, recently lot of 3d-design related people mourned closure of cgsociety forum.

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Ask HN: Why don't smartphones encourage programming like early 80s computers?"

sadpolishdev — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 23:22:01 +0000

Because smartphones give access to lot of distractions and content out of the box, and when you got your Atari XE or similar machine, you had 10 floppies with games and INTRODUCTION to basic - at some point you'd start writing it from pure boredom. Now you can infinitely scroll social media and never had a glimpse of thought about doing something by yourself.

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?"

sadpolishdev — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 21:08:19 +0000

Yes, I've worked in multiple indie teams on various titles, I'm doing gamedev professionally, as well I'm solo dev making sideproject in spare time... on the span of 4 years or so.

My two cents - excluding people who "not work on their game full time" isn't very smart, most people have responsibilities and jobs, and can't afford to spend all the time on their pet project, and it doesn't mean they are not serious about releasing their games.

I wish you all the best on your development anyway.

You can check what I'm doing here: https://twitter.com/piropro

New comment by sadpolishdev in "The E-Ink Badge"

sadpolishdev — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:41:14 +0000

Isnt badger an old news by now? I had mine for quite time: https://twitter.com/piropro/status/1505054493305671681

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Ask HN: How to move from traditional tech into game dev?"

sadpolishdev — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 17:34:07 +0000

Dont

New comment by sadpolishdev in "I did Advent of Code on a Playstation"

sadpolishdev — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 11:37:45 +0000

You could say it was not on ps1 / psx, I was expecting some good retro stuff. Before anyone starts complaining - i dont know what "dreams" is, and title just says "advent of code on playstation", which implies doing challenge on 25 year old console.

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?"

sadpolishdev — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:12:45 +0000

This is one side story, with no "oh I didn't knew it'll be used that way!" gotcha moment - I've worked in private milsec for some time, and I'm responsible for few device designs / ammo improvements/mk's, while I take pride in job well done, just because someone dies more quickly, doesn't mean its a good death - so after some years, I've started having doubts of that career path.

New comment by sadpolishdev in "PayPal blocked Flipper Zero account with $1.3M"

sadpolishdev — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 04:54:01 +0000

Wasn't it because they basically told backers that "they didn't purchased anything", and instead of focusing on fulfilling kickstarter backers orders, started selling them in shops, so you could actually get the device faster purchasing it normal way in e-store, instead of backing the campaign, which pissed off a lot of people who started complaining and got muted? I've heard that even talking about that on their discord is bannable offense, and everything is either countered with jokes, sarcasm or put under the rug.

New comment by sadpolishdev in "Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter"

sadpolishdev — Mon, 10 May 2021 20:51:36 +0000

Makes me sad as a polish game-developer, who decided never to work in my country again. I have 15+ years of experience, I've made games for ps2 and original xbox aside PCs, and until i've left the "national" gamedev industry, my salaries were (monthly) along these numbers: around 2005ish: 3d artist / junior - 600usd 3d artist / mid - 800usd around 2009ish: 3d artist / team lead: 1100usd 3d artist / senior / team lead 1200usd around 2012ish: 3d artist / senior / team lead / delegated to maintain and oversee a remote office in other side of the country - 1200usd + rent paid (around 300usd) 2014 decided to leave any employment, and started own company that freelance/outsource work - salary quadrupled (after taxes). Since then, I had a steady rose in hourly rates, so its not comparable to normal local gamedev salaries at any point. Its ok to love games and want to make games. Just dont be exploitable idiot, and working on AAA title that sells millions for 1000usd/month, while beign called mid, or lead for 2.5k usd/month for having responsibility of evaluating several other teammates work.