Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game • Hacker News Board

Re: Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game

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Post by disqard » Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 6:24 AM UTC

anoncoward111 wrote: post #34

peteradio wrote: post #17

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What is the cost of living? That seems rough almost anywhere to support a family. What do you do?

I started out in customer service making that rate, and I've also done sales and billing adjustments at the company for the same rate of pay. Those roles are more like "internally advertised", whereas customer service is externally advertised because of the high need for these roles and the relatively high turn-over rate in the position because of the type of work (shouting customers who are angry about price or tard…

Thank you for sharing these details! I value the insight into how diverse the "making ends meet" dimension can be, even among people connected to tech in some way.

Re: Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game

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Post by anoncoward111 » Sun, Dec 02, 2018, 9:25 AM UTC

disqard wrote: post #81

anoncoward111 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started out in customer service making that rate, and I've also done sales and billing adjustments at the company for the same rate of pay. Those roles are more like "internally advertised", whereas customer service is externally advertised because of the high need for these roles and the relatively high turn-over rate in the position because of the type of work (shouting customers who are angry about price or tard…

Thank you for sharing these details! I value the insight into how diverse the "making ends meet" dimension can be, even among people connected to tech in some way.

Thanks for asking, it was a pleasure :)

I've lived off of less than $300 in Thailand and Chile before, but that's basically enough to afford only food and a room... and in my case in Chile, food and a tent in the mountains!!

Re: Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game

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Post by Doxin » Mon, Dec 03, 2018, 10:31 AM UTC

_dps wrote: post #45

gonehome wrote: post #44

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There are a lot of great narrative games: - Firewatch - Life is Strange - Tacoma - Gone Home - Oxenfree - What Remains of Edith Finch It's probably my favorite indie genre and when done well it's a lot different than anything else out there.

For anyone who cares about this genre, I'll throw in strong recommendations for - The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - Virginia - SOMA with the monster interactions turned off (they don't bother me, but with interactions it's not strictly a narrative game) and moderate recommendations for - Dear Esther - Ether One - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

"The beginners guide" is another good one.