Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[Infinitron]

Goral What are you saving on posts?

I talk about how to get a job in the game industry, as well as how I got my job.

 

[garren]

I talk about how to get a job in the game industry, as well as how I got my job.

Good advice (not that it's anything new to codexer), but I can see that overtly lecturing woke style has rubbed off on Tim a little, spending so much time around danger hairs ("You literally have no excuse!"). Just say what you have to say Tim, no need for the edge.

 

[Butter]

It's the most asked question because lazy shit gamers are hoping someone will finally give a different answer. They don't want to be told "Go spend 3 years learning and building something in Unity." They want to be told "Gosh, your ideas are so amazing. You should come work at my company making six figures right now!"

 

[Alienman]

Answer: Be born in the 70s.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

I don't think normal people even want to go into the gamedev industry. Have you seen the kind of shit they make nowadays and the kind of colleagues you're gonna have?

I would've loved to work at Interplat in the late 90s or at Troika. But in 2023 it's only crazy twitter ladies and fanfic writers who want to "get into gamedev". Normal people want to stay away from it.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

What have become of this world, people on Codex implying that being a normal person is a positive.
Bad people are bad. Normal people are the worst.

 

[Jrpgfan]

Being confronted with Tim Cain's mortality like that is really depressing. He looks terrible in the vid.

He's 57 years old, so, yeah.

Imagine gay sex at 57.

Imagine sex at 57.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Imagine sex

Because thats all you'll be doing.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

It's the most asked question because lazy shit gamers are hoping someone will finally give a different answer. They don't want to be told "Go spend 3 years learning and building something in Unity." They want to be told "Gosh, your ideas are so amazing. You should come work at my company making six figures right now!"

Learn HTML, become web master for a game's website, become a designer (while still web master) on development of another game released the following year, then be promoted to lead designer for that game's sequel.

Spoiler

 

[d1nolore]

I don’t think most people who say they want to be game developers actually want to be game devs. What they actually want is to be game creators. They want to point and click to make things and talk about their ideas.

Like anything it’s supply and demand. You need to offer someone something they need that not everyone has. 6000 hours in programming or 3D modelling is a skill most people don’t have. Coming up with ideas or stories is something most people can do. But putting in those 1000’s of hours is more akin to working than playing.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

It's the difference between wanting to do something and wanting to have done something. The latter leads to the quest for shortcuts and the path of least effort.

 

[Maldoror]

I think this is one of the situations where the West and Japan differ in game design philosophy. I'd wager that a sizeable chunk of narrative and design leads in the West don't have a lot of experience with actually programming and creating games. Conversely, most of the big Japanese auteurs (emphasis on the aut) like Hideo Kojima, Shigeru Miyamoto and Tetsuya Nomura had good experience functionally creating the games that they would go on to write and direct for.

And then there's somebody like Todd Howard, who did bug fixes for Daggerfall and then chose the direction of the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series because of that. Yay.

 

[Maldoror]

In which Tim talks about the first industry game that he worked on.

 

[Nano]

Imagine gay sex at 57.

I've fucked guys older than him. Their assholes understandably become looser and sloppier with age. I prefer it that way tbh.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

Timothy Cain
We didn’t have a name for the engine. Maya is the 3D art tool that our artists used to make assets for the game. It’s made by Autodesk.

We really need a Fallout HD based on the original code and assets...

Are you up to the job, Beamdog?

Spoiler

 

[Roguey]

Rauatai Sweet Pie

I made this pie a lot in my college days. I think it contributed to my
robust physique.

2 large eggs
½ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) butter, melted
1 cup (6 oz) chocolate chips
1 9-inch pie shell, unbaked

Preheat the oven to 325F.

Using a mixer, beat the eggs until they are foamy. Add the flour, sugar
and brown sugar, and beat well. Blend in the melted butter. Stir (do
not beat) in the chocolate chips, then pour the mixture into the pie
shell. Bake for 1 hour.

I hope one day to make this...

 

[Nano]

I've found an interesting information on Tim's channel about his dark chocolate consumption. He even has a blog about it! Picture for proof (link to blog below the picture):

https://chocolateihaveknown.wordpress.com/

I've saw a couple of entries. It's a nice one!

Dark chocolate, eh?

 

[Late Bloomer]

Tim once again talks about how great everything Outer Worlds is. This time its all about Q&A / Playtesting. He shits on Temple of Elemental Evil a bit. He spends quality time reading from his notebook about each of his 16 total playthroughs. Going through each character and playstyle.

 

[NecroLord]

I've found an interesting information on Tim's channel about his dark chocolate consumption. He even has a blog about it! Picture for proof (link to blog below the picture):

https://chocolateihaveknown.wordpress.com/

I've saw a couple of entries. It's a nice one!

Dark chocolate, eh?

African american chocolate.

 

[Maldoror]

Tim once again talks about how great Outer Worlds is.

Based Tim; he should make another one of those.

 

[Roguey]

Tim addresses the Outer Worlds haters:

How long of time needs to pass before Outer Worlds can be spoken of in a negative light? There had to have been some things behind the scenes that didnt work out well, all things considered. Is Outer Worlds immune to criticism on this channel?

It's not immune, but negative criticism takes time, because you need perspective on it. A game will ship and people will complain about something that really becomes a non-issue over time (such as load times or draw distances), while other features are overlooked by new players and become something beloved later, like Dogmeat in Fallout 1.

Also, many many people think negative criticism does not need to be constructive, but it does. Saying "that feature is dumb" or "that thing looks stupid" is not only unhelpful, there is nothing specific to fix. Such criticism is even less than useless, because it decreases the signal-to-noise ratio of whatever channel you are using the communicate with the developer. And it causes them to discount any future criticism you may have.

And finally, I personally hate critiquing other people's work, which is why I don't tend to answer questions about ranking games or questions about games that are still under development.

 

[Maldoror]

Tim addresses the Outer Worlds haters:

How long of time needs to pass before Outer Worlds can be spoken of in a negative light?

I found this interesting, because after the preliminary assortment of positive critical reviews, nowhere on the internet speaks particularly positively about The Outer Worlds, apart from a few Obsidianfags like myself. Comment seems like it was written by a Codex ESL.

 

[Don Peste]

What? "How long of time needs to pass" is Beautiful English.
Or do you have improved words to talk to Tim what the comment is asking to him?

 

[Butter]

He did 16 full playthroughs of Outer Worlds.

 

[Modron]

What can change the nature of a man?

Spoiler

r) playing through The Outer Worlds 16 times.