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BetterFasterStronger
Teaching Tech Artists to Build Technology.
Rob Galanakis • CCP Games • [email protected]
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“I’m having breakfast with the
CEO of Tencent Boston to
explain why he needs Tech Artists.”
- Jeff Hanna, 2009
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???
Infrastructure
Game Tools
Art Tools
Automation
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Geek, not
Plumber
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Tech Artist, not Software
Developer
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Tech Artist, not Software
Developer
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1. Support Process
2. Code Review
3. Collaboration
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Process
Support
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Process
@%*Support
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Users Find Defect/
Request Feature
Idealized Support Process
TA Fixes Defect/Adds Feature
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Actual Support Process
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Realize how much
support you do,
and
trust others to do it.
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Bug/Task List
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Code Review
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Code ReviewMandatory & Thorough
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Less Benefit
More Optional
Tension
Dead Reviews
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An effective review process
requires:
•A Single
Arbiter
•Total
Compliance
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Dictator BDFL
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A lesson from
Open Source
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Code Review
is the mark of aProfessional
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Collaboration
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What is it?
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???
Infrastructure
Game Tools
Art Tools
Automation
Skill & WorkRequired
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Avoid the
Pitfalls
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Moralewill suffer …temporarily
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orFailure
Rigor
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Code Submits
Find a Metric for
Success
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Change won’t happen overnight.
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And not everyone will fit a mold. THE BORG
They can assimilate THIS!
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Building Technology is as
easy as…
A. Support Process
B. Code Review
C. Collaboration
And D, E, F, G, H, I, J…
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The goal is not to become a programmer.
It is to learn to program, to be a better Tech Artist.
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