Paudric Smith (Pixel Pat) : Unity Games Developer & Pixel Art Designer | FireDEV | EP1
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
05:41 - Have you done teaching before?
06:44 - Irish transition year
09:41 - How long have you been a developer?
11:27 - What made you become a developer?
15:42 - Do you have a family and what do you wish you knew that you know now?
18:27 - Transitioning from full-time employment to University education
23:40 - Do you regret becoming a developer
25:18 - Exercise and procrastination
27:23 - Do you regret the indie dev life?
29:00 - How do you juggle 9-5, indie life and family?
31:22 - Using the Pomodoro technique
33:11 - Dealing with breaks and getting into the flow of development
34:56 - Funny late-night coding story
38:17 - Working on 4.5 hours of sleep for 5 plus years
39:09 - Losing weight after university
39:42 - Getting fat during Covid
40:08 - Intermittent fasting
42:01 - Getting comfortable and fat when you're married
42:48 - What do you hate about being a developer
43:19 - Do marketing as an indie developer
44:16 - Selling yourself out
45:29 - Promoting your content to become successful and dealing with the haters
46:44 - Friends being unnecessary assholes
48:51 - Trying to deal with Discord spam
51:51 - Having a chill Discord, is worth it?
52:44 - Getting banned from Discord groups
55:54 - Weird YouTube adult spam
56:51 - Discord vs YouTube spam
57:25 - Racist comments
58:17 - Given the right circumstance, we all could be racist
59:08 - Focusing energy on the right things
1:00:01 - You're not successful until you get hate
1:00:57 - Negative comments are from jealous people
1:02:21 - If you could work on anything, what would it be?
1:05:05 - GTA V PS4/Xbox One vs PS5/Xbox Series X Graphics
1:06:39 - GTA V is an action comedy?
1:07:59 - Online gaming when you're married and have a job
1:10:47 - What other careers did you consider?
1:13:13 - Does a games developer play games all day?
1:14:42 - Remote vs onsite working?
1:17:20 - Do you have a dream company you would like to work at?
1:18:20 - How did you find Covid?
1:20:39 - Do you have any family or friends that are developers?
1:21:25 - Would you ever switch careers
1:21:55 - How much money would make you switch careers?
1:22:45 - Do you code outside of work?
1:24:30 - Coding vs design?
1:26:24 - What did you study at University?
1:27:28 - How much game development did your degree entail?
1:29:16 - Would you recommend University to people?
1:34:05 - How many people drop out of University?
1:36:27 - What myths about programming did you have before you started programming?
1:37:08 - How do you keep up with the latest trends in technology?
1:38:13 - Why Unity over Unreal?
1:39:33 - Would you rather run a 10-person company or a 1000-person company?
1:41:07 - Running a big company is less stressful than running a small company
1:42:34 - Does money buy you happiness?
1:44:25 - 5 million upfront or 500,000 a year for the rest of your life
1:48:38 - Favourite board game
1:52:28 - Favourite video game
1:54:45 - What video game are you looking forward to?
1:55:56 - Red Dead Redemption 2 Remaster on PS5 and GTA VI
2:00:59 - What do you think of crunch in the gaming industry?
2:02:27 - Would you buy a game made by a company with Crunch?
2:04:39 - What advice would you give to a new developer and wrap up
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