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the_logos · 12-14-2004, 01:44 PM

Coding is only one part of the job. Half our producers have no formal background in coding. We may be looking for a full-time 'pure coder' as well for the project, but we're not at the moment.

As producer, your job would be to bring the game to fruition. That means you are responsible for the game and everything that goes on in it. It's a big mistake to look at running a MUD as a coder position, since there are so many areas of responsibility. You'd be in charge of handling and coordinating, pre-release:
* Community management
* Design
* Code Development
* Building

Post-release those responsibilities would continue, along with:
* Fraud control
* Customer service

There are probably other areas of responsibility that I'm leaving out. The idea is that this would be, in many ways, your project. You'd be working with our Rapture engine, and starting with a stripped-down codebase that contains things like OLC and mobprogs along with their appropriate web applications, and all high-level design would proceed under my supervision as few people have experience with our business model.

Anyway, it sounds too good to be true because developing and running a MUD for a living IS almost too good to be true. Every day is a new challenge, there's huge opportunity to express yourself creatively, you get to work from home (assuming this is a plus to you. It is to most of us.), get to largely schedule your own time (we only have one mandatory meeting a week), and so on.

The only downside is that it's a lot of work. Like nearly all jobs in the games industry, is emphatically not a 9-5, 40 hours a week job. A lot of dedication is required and the reason someone has to be so self-motivated is that working your ass off without being physically surrounded by other people doing the same can be hard to maintain. 50+ hours/week is definitely the norm, and while we don't do a lot of crunch time (unlike, infamously, most developers), expect it to dominate your life for awhile. Just to emphasize again, this is NOT a 9-5 "done when the bell rings" kind of job. It's a (#### nice if you like MUDs) lifestyle as much as a job.

--matt
P.S. With the recent fall of the US dollar relative to the Euro, it's possibly you make more in US dollars than you think. This morning, the Euro buys you 1.329 US dollars.

12-14-2004, 01:44 PM	#10
the_logos Legend Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Mill Valley, California Posts: 2,305	Coding is only one part of the job. Half our producers have no formal background in coding. We may be looking for a full-time 'pure coder' as well for the project, but we're not at the moment. As producer, your job would be to bring the game to fruition. That means you are responsible for the game and everything that goes on in it. It's a big mistake to look at running a MUD as a coder position, since there are so many areas of responsibility. You'd be in charge of handling and coordinating, pre-release: * Community management * Design * Code Development * Building Post-release those responsibilities would continue, along with: * Fraud control * Customer service There are probably other areas of responsibility that I'm leaving out. The idea is that this would be, in many ways, your project. You'd be working with our Rapture engine, and starting with a stripped-down codebase that contains things like OLC and mobprogs along with their appropriate web applications, and all high-level design would proceed under my supervision as few people have experience with our business model. Anyway, it sounds too good to be true because developing and running a MUD for a living IS almost too good to be true. Every day is a new challenge, there's huge opportunity to express yourself creatively, you get to work from home (assuming this is a plus to you. It is to most of us.), get to largely schedule your own time (we only have one mandatory meeting a week), and so on. The only downside is that it's a lot of work. Like nearly all jobs in the games industry, is emphatically not a 9-5, 40 hours a week job. A lot of dedication is required and the reason someone has to be so self-motivated is that working your ass off without being physically surrounded by other people doing the same can be hard to maintain. 50+ hours/week is definitely the norm, and while we don't do a lot of crunch time (unlike, infamously, most developers), expect it to dominate your life for awhile. Just to emphasize again, this is NOT a 9-5 "done when the bell rings" kind of job. It's a (#### nice if you like MUDs) lifestyle as much as a job. --matt P.S. With the recent fall of the US dollar relative to the Euro, it's possibly you make more in US dollars than you think. This morning, the Euro buys you 1.329 US dollars.