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Not the ones I've applied to. If a company can't even tell you about itself without hyperbole, why bother?

Side note, but fun fact! Fortnite, the uberpopular battle royale game, is actually itself a mod of the original Fortnite (now called "Fortnite: Save the World"). Originally a tower…

Only if you limit yourself to a particular kind of company, I think? I've worked as a dev for decades, but not for proper, actual tech companies... mostly a mixture of small biz an…

Speaking of Easy Anti Cheat, it's coming to Linux! https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-la...

I think there's a slight distinction to be made between "games that have built-in low/no-code content editors" and "games that can be modded via an SDK, but you have to code". The …

I would hate to work for a company that treats me as commodity labor, bidding for my time but none of my values or interests. That's not to say salary should be secret (dear god, n…

Maybe let him try modding existing games? Steam's community workshop pages are thriving, especially for easily modded titles like Bethesda games. Back in the day, Warcraft III had …

Eh, we'd probably just have kept buying Fortnite skins and never have heard about this to begin with. If nothing else, Epic managed to lower in-app commissions for small indie devs…

Epic's first-party games are often a showcase / development driver for new versions of UE, though (the way Unreal, the game, first popularized UE, the engine). If Epic can't publis…

Fortnite notwithstanding, Epic also makes the Unreal Engine, which is one of the biggest ones alongside Unity -- especially for cross-platform games. Hindering iOS development of U…