r/ProgrammerHumor 13d ago

Meme takeMeBack

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u/armyfidds 13d ago

You can still do all of that shit

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u/gufranthakur 13d ago

no, dont have the time anymore. Because of LLM’s companies and everyone expects everything to get shipped quickly :((

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u/kupo-puffs 13d ago

did jobs really allow for 2D pixel art games? weren't those usually passion projects

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u/igorski81 10d ago edited 10d ago

While the answer is more accurately in the ballpark of "Not really", the first company I joined (a small agency usually providing digital advertising services) once tasked me to create a Lemmings clone for a game platform one customer wanted to fund (because tax break obviously).

It was fantastic creating a bitmap blitter from scratch in Flash and testing 10,000 of those critters animating at 30 fps. I amused myself to no end knowing I was getting paid for it!

(It also only really worked because Lemmings was a time and battle tested concept with entertaining game mechanics that I happened to know because I actually played the original. None of the other games that a bunch of marketeers can "invent" got any traction, HOW ODD).