Text Post: Hello, fellow website users posted by Rathenix
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  • Qukatt
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    Hey! You could get in touch with organisations like Childs play or special effect which are gaming focused charities to see if you can put your skills and passion together :D

    Special effects builds tech and software for disabled gamers who couldn't normally use the available peripherals, they are lovely people. UK based though, I dunno how that affects how much help you could offer them.

    • Rathenix
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      Hey, thanks a lot for the tip! I would love to work for a non-profit/charity as long as I made enough to continue to support my family. I've considered doing volunteer work on the side, but with long hours and a commute I already barely get to see my wife and I never want to be that guy who puts work before his family. Special Effects sounds like a great group, and I've donated to Child's Play a bunch of times but never thought about working with them. Thanks!

      • Qukatt
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        nice thing about childs play is you can do stuff like game marathons for fun and donations :)

        the other stuff to look into is maybe gamejams! you get a dev team together or go as an individual and you code a game against the other teams in he course of a day or weekend and then all the finished games go into a humble bundle style sale to benefit charity :) they are awesome fun and you can find them all over the world, both remote and real world and all year round.

        and yah, commutes are killers. I crochet so I can happily work on longer journeys as long as the project isn't too much to carry about. Since I cant write/read while moving.

        • Rathenix
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          Oh yeah! I've heard about those gamejams. I've been working on getting into game programming in my spare time. I may have to look into that. Right now I live in a pretty rural area (not that rural, but... underdeveloped) so public transportation to and from work is pretty much out of the question. I've been considering audiobooks for my drives, but currently that's my prime music-listening time. I'm hoping to move to a bigger city with a flourishing tech scene in the next year or so to try and find the next step in my career, so maybe then I'll get to use my commute times for something more productive.

          • Qukatt
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            Amateur jams are 100% the way to learn quick and dirty coding :D though id start with code academy maybe unless you have a team mate to help lol.

            I half miss living in the middle of nowhere but I would certainly miss good (on time!) public transport. Edinburgh has spoiled me xD

            • Rathenix
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              I'm actually already a developer. Well, I'm an analyst these days, but I started as a dev. It's specifically game design that I never really sunk my teeth into. I've een messing around with Unity for C# stuff (my native tongue, so to speak) and Phaser for HTML5/JS games, which I really like.