{"id":2296,"date":"2018-09-05T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T02:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2018-09-05T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T02:31:22","slug":"how-do-you-describe-your-job-to-non-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"How do you describe your job to non-developers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<div id=\"attachment_2302\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Indie-on-beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2302\" class=\"wp-image-2302 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Indie-on-beach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Indie-on-beach.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Indie-on-beach-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Indie-on-beach-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorry honey, I&#8217;ll be right there in a click or two. Just need to tighten up this game design first<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\nThe evolution of how I&#8217;ve described my job to non developers:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>1989 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m a BBS door author&#8221;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>1993 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m a programmer&#8221;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>1997 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m a game developer&#8221;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>2003 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m an indie game developer&#8221;<\/li>\r\n \t<li>2013 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m a game designer&#8221;<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nI like\u00a0<em>&#8220;game designer&#8221;<\/em> as it sounds more glamorous.\u00a0 It evokes the TV stereotype of the pensive genius sitting on the beach, tapping out creative masterpieces between sips of wine.\u00a0 I want people to think that&#8217;s what I do all day.\r\n\r\nTo fellow developers I say &#8220;tiny two person indie dev team&#8221; to make it clear that we do the arting and coding and aren&#8217;t just &#8220;idea people&#8221; looking for someone to make our game or whatever.\r\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 1.5rem; background-color: transparent;\">The mundane truth<\/span><\/h1>\r\nThe experience of running a tiny indie game company from home for nearly thirty years is more like being a rat desperately jumping between sinking ships as technologies and digital storefronts boom and bust in never ending cycles.\r\n\r\nYou stay flexible or you&#8217;re done.\r\n\r\n<div id=\"attachment_2301\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/seth_baby_at_desk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2301\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/seth_baby_at_desk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/seth_baby_at_desk.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/seth_baby_at_desk-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/seth_baby_at_desk-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pair programming with Cosmo in 2003<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\nIt&#8217;s fighting with software libraries, editors and engines.\u00a0 It&#8217;s figuring out why ssl stopped working on our websites.\u00a0 It&#8217;s dealing with soul killing (well, for me, anyway) things like conventions and marketing.\r\n\r\nAll things considered, there&#8217;s nothing I&#8217;d rather be doing.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evolution of how I&#8217;ve described my job to non developers: 1989 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m a BBS door author&#8221; 1993 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m a programmer&#8221; 1997 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m a game developer&#8221; 2003 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m an indie game developer&#8221; 2013 &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m a game designer&#8221; I like\u00a0&#8220;game designer&#8221; as it sounds more glamorous.\u00a0 It evokes the TV stereotype [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}