Hi! Thanks for the kind words, everyone.
Hopefully this shouldn't negatively impact the development of PoB at all, but it's hard to know for certain, as I need to prioritise working on the game itself. Having direct access to the code here should be a major benefit, though.
Grats on infiltrating GGG, to finally discover the super secret minion and specter numbers
I did actually manage to squeeze the minion calculation info out of Mark while I was here for the interview two weeks ago; hence the sudden progress.
I had assumed they were hiring you to work on path of building and make it a supported program... What are you going to be working on?
I'll be working on the gameplay code (skills, stats etc). Same job as Mark.
Who made the first move on this? Did you just apply for the job or did somebody from GGG ask you if you wanted to join the team?
I applied for the gameplay programmer job that they advertised a while ago.
Are you from New Zealand? or did you travel from another country?
I'm from Australia.
Did you have any prior game programming experience? I'm not in the field or anything but I'm curious
Professionally, none. I have been coding in and around games for most of my life as a hobby, though.
Congrats on the job, I kind of hope POB goes in house.
P.S. Do you think you could update Bleed calculations in PoB?
For example, have a "max stacks" number when you have crimson dance, and/or a "ruthless hit" bleed number if you're using the ruthlessness gem?
I still haven't worked out the best way to simulate Crimson Dance yet, unfortunately it's rather tricky to handle.
Do you know/can you share what kind of stuff you'll be working on as a PoE developer?
Just general gameplay stuff; skills, stats, etc.
Congratulation, hope you like the workplaces and Auckland
So far the office is easily the best place I've ever worked at! Auckland is nice, although the weather kinda sucks compared to Brisbane.
Will pob be suported/updated?
It will continue to be updated in my spare time; although I don't know how much of that I'll have.
So did he reveal the secrets of the skelly mages? All I wanna know is if it converts skellys dmg to elemental or if it negates any added phys and uses pure elemental.
The mages uses pure elemental spells; there's no conversion involved.
Are you still going to be doing PoB? Is it going to be rolled into your job?
I'll be updating PoB in my spare time, as before.
Having Mark as my mentor would terrify me. Grats on the job! I'm assuming moving to NZ is mandatory?
Yes.
Not sure if I should ask but... how long have you been coding as a hobby? :@
About 17 years I think
But how many hours do you have in game? :thinking:
I don't know the exact number as I use the standalone client, but probably 5000+.
Where'd you move from and what is it like being in NZ so far?
I moved from Brisbane, Australia; Auckland is really nice, although the weather is a lot cooler.
yikes, please compile all errors you made in pob compared to real ingame code please
None that I'm aware of so far!
Congrats!
Just curious, Openarl is a New Zealander that just has to move or from outside the country and needs to migrate?
I'm Australian, so I did have to relocate.
Well you just dodged AUS summer so thats another giant plus!
Eh, I'm pretty used to Brisbane weather, so it's not a big deal.
To me this says: You truly LOVE this and landed your dream job.
Pretty much!
As a fellow software engineer, I hope you help push the underlying code base in a direction that actually makes sense so Mark can stop responding to everything with "that'd be too fundamental a change, you don't know how our code is structured" to things that are really obviously straightforward and easy in any sane context!
From what I've seen so far, the code base already makes sense, and I honestly didn't expect otherwise. The other programmers here are just as competent as I am, and they have good reasons for structuring the code this way (mainly performance); so you shouldn't expect me to be making major changes that will make everyone's dreams come true. I'll try to make some dreams come true, though!
I'm curious, are you a NZ resident already? I know the labor laws there can make it tough to hire someone who isn't.
Australian citizen, which is close enough.
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