if you look at Zenimax’s listings for Arkane in Austin there are like 5 senior engineer positions + others and senior artists and senior producer listings. We know Redfall is coming out in like 10 months or so.
MOST job listings at game studios will be “Senior” which typically just means you have a few years of experience. Not that you are the lead. That’s Principle or equivalent.
Couple that with Fable most likely being live service in some way, high talent will always be sought after.
tl;dr: I wouldn’t consider how many Senior positions are up as a means of estimating how far out a game is, especially live service games
Ah ok I was a bit confused on this one, what’s the difference between senior and lead? I’m just assuming a senior UI developer is just someone with a ton of experience but just a normal dev while a lead is someone who is leading the UI project.
Cheers for clearing that up and good thing there’s nothing to worry about! Also quick question what do you think about the amount of lead roles though?
Typically the hierarchy is like Associate → Regular (meaning, no prefix title) → Senior → Lead/Principle → Director
A team of engineers working on a game may be a mix of skill levels. There may be multiple teams of engineers if the project is large. That team can have multiple senior engineers (5+ years, maybe a few shipped titles under their belt), but they all follow a Lead or Principle engineer on the team. The Lead/Principle is responsible for the team’s progress and has enough experience to deal with more intricate aspects of development.
Then, the Director oversees all the engineering teams and the general direction of technology at the studio at large and all that. Like a CTO sort of, unless that is a hierarchy tier above the Director (depends on studio set up).
Lets just say all 9 of those games do hit in 2023 ( I dont think some will) for 2024-2025 you still have
The Outer Worlds 2
Indiana Jones
Project Mara
Josh Sawyer game
Gears 6
Project Dragon
MMO Dragon game
Kojima game
Spin off game
Id Software Next game
Double fine Next game
And so on the point I am making is some years are going to be more stacked then others but I dont think there will be a 6 months period MS will not have a game plus this isnt including MORE Stuidos they will buy
Good news then! It would be surprising if development wasn’t nicely on its way by now. Also, didn’t Klobrille a while ago said this was in mid development and Avowed a bit further in development?
Very interesting!
How does one even spot anti aliasing though, didn’t he mean he spotted some slight aliasing instead?
Yeah, but I’m taking it a little bit further than that, and if/when I do look to post it on Community Corner, I’ll be sure to throw a nod to @ProgStopper.
People won’t be able to help themselves(Why I don’t know) but Avellone is one of many people who should never have their comments posted here. If someone clear agenda against a developer or the brand as a whole then they should be out.
I hope that people become more discerning in who they choose to get information from instead of just seeing and instantly deciding that it has value and is worthy of being shared here.
I really wouldn’t be against this, because the stuff he writes doesn’t contribute anything to the conversations here. If nobody posts his shit here anymore, I vow to do the same.
