Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

I feel an actual pang in my innards when reminded of Laidlaw's departure. Sigh. I hope he helps build us some kick ass Assassin's Creed games.

Imperator Furiåsa @devilkitten
The other day I got this comment that I had to prove myself, prove my skill within my given profession. My thoughts around that are as follows:

1. Why do I have to prove myself when my male colleagues get opportunity after opportunity to not only fail but fail upwards?
2. I've been in this industry for 19 years. Have I not proven myself enough by now?
3. People ask me why I'm a perfectionist. I'm a perfectionist because I'm NOT allowed to fail. If I fail, all women fail. If I fail, I don't fail upwards. I have to drag my failures around.
4. Every time I fail, I have to prove myself.
5. Most of my colleagues that I started out with are game directors by now. I'm lucky if I get a position on my current level. Most offers are a step down.
I still have to prove myself. 19 years experience, & I have to prove myself.


- Ugh. This just pisses me off to no end, and just another reminder of the culture problems at BW, and across the industry. I keep hearing about staff (typically male) who "fail upwards", or getting promoted to leadership positions they're unqualified for. I think this is what they call "The Peter Principle" at work.

Sanshee @teamsanshee
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Being told to "prove my skill within my given profession" doesn't strike me as a comment made by some rando. And the points she raises don't support that either. 

True, but - known issues aside - let's not forget that BW employees also react to things that happen within the industry or their colleagues. It's not rare for me to see them talking about dev-related stuff and it later turns out that they are commenting on something external, like an article or a discussion/case that's gone public. So it can't be assumed that this is internal stuff - like you said before, this is a significant problem within the industry so we can't be sure where the impulse to speak about it came from.

I think people may be a bit too quick to read almost everything like it's indicating problems at BW lately. I don't want to play down whatever BW has to tackle there, but it's getting to a point where some devs (like John Epler) began to regularly underline that it's NOT just their jobs that keep stressing them or they're not in a bad mood because something wrong happens under their roof  This can't be healthy as well.

Now this here ^ This here is super important.
Programmers and end users should interact on how to use and streamline the tools in use. I know this too well as we've had to deal with some legacy graphics assets 'placement' editors and such, which we've now streamlined to be as easy and fast to use. I think we cut almost an hour off every time it was needed in the end!

They do squeak, but I don't know why you'd pay $30 just to give it to your dog.   

Goodness! They are getting really inclusive on sexual orientations now.

Andre Santos @andresandtoast
There is that one romance scene where morrigans fingers look like nasty tentacles.

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