Wish I had the skill Joe, it's a niche real time area of programming where you need to understand the GPU in detail and you probably also have to understand proprietary Graphics libraries intimately as well.Originally Posted by joebloggs
it sounds exciting
jim why didn't you go into game development
Once upon a time it was possible if you were a generalist but now you have to seriously specialise if you want to get into games and a huge part of the real development is done by artists now not programmers.
Real time state machines at the bottom of the stack, I can do that stuffbut the high end graphics are hard
You asked the question in past tense and I did not really answer that, my career in IT has been pretty random, I really drifted from one money making opportunity to another, if I had been focused then maybe I could have got into the interesting stuff but I wasn't, the thing I really missed out on was a chance to get into CRM development in the late 90's I had some friends that made a fortune in that field.
