What's your day job/career/dream job? Let's get to know some of the players in the MCOC Community

Terminatrix

What do you do outside of MCOC?.

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Vegeta9001

Win the lottery

captain_rogers

I am at pre final year in my college and really want to become a programmer. I really like logical reasoning and thinking, that's why I chose this. I also want to contribute to mcoc in some way, especially want to design and code a story final boss. Wish me luck guys.

World Eater

I’m a professional BS artist

In other words , I work in sales

GAMEOVERJames

Research

Majority of the gaming time is the time when I was waiting for the chemical reaction…..

Jefechuta

Same as @World Eater here, till next year at least.

ahmynuts

Software engineer by day.
BS artist by night (to be clear I don't sell anything. I just bs around alot)

Typhoon

I am a licensed hydrogeologist

mbgibson

I'm a process engineer in the food industry. My technical background is chemical engineering.

Emilia90

I’m still doing my undergrad. BS in psych and planning to go to grad school after that

Polygon

I am at pre final year in my college and really want to become a programmer. I really like logical reasoning and thinking, that's why I chose this. I also want to contribute to mcoc in some way, especially want to design and code a story final boss. Wish me luck guys.

Does coding/programming require more of a logical based style of thinking or creative thinking? I struggled with physics because it needs creative thinking but i was really good at subjects like math, chemistry, grammar because i had a logical/analytical mindset

Fit_Fun9329

Nice try FBI

Terminatrix

I am at pre final year in my college and really want to become a programmer. I really like logical reasoning and thinking, that's why I chose this. I also want to contribute to mcoc in some way, especially want to design and code a story final boss. Wish me luck guys.

Awesome!! And maybe you can get in on other games too

Rayven5220

I build things...
I work in construction.

Terminatrix

Research

Majority of the gaming time is the time when I was waiting for the chemical reaction…..

Cool. What type of research?

Terminatrix

I am a licensed hydrogeologist

So you study water and earth?

Sundance_2099

Currently unemployed after caring for my Mum for 7 years. She passed in April.

MrSakuragi

I manage a Project Management Office in government IT.

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Colinwhitworth69

Instructional designer, multimedia designer, team lead at a global software company. No, not Kabam....

MrSakuragi

Instructional designer, multimedia designer, team lead at a global software company. No, not Kabam....

Netmarble? lol

DNA3000

I am at pre final year in my college and really want to become a programmer. I really like logical reasoning and thinking, that's why I chose this. I also want to contribute to mcoc in some way, especially want to design and code a story final boss. Wish me luck guys.

Programmers do not, in general, design story content. Content designers have more in common with, say, people who build things in Minecraft. Programmers built Minecraft itself, but the people who build things within Minecraft are not, in general, programmers.

If you did have programming skills, within the context of a game like MCOC that would probably help you in one of a few ways. If you actually wanted to write code to expand or maintain the game engine, that would of course be your primary skill requirement. May god have mercy on your soul. If you decided to be a systems engineer (say, the guys that designed relics, or the battlegrounds mode, or even something like the piggy banks), that would help work with programmers to implement system designs, or assist with troubleshooting them, as the systems engineers probably work closest with the actual programmers and the actual code. And third, if you worked as, say, a champion designer and they let you, you could read the code to figure out how the various game mechanics worked to inform you on how to best design things that functioned the way you want them to, because the only games I know that are well documented are the ones that no one has worked on for twenty years.

But 90% of game design is not programming, at least when it comes to games like MCOC. The programmers that work in a game studio are like the plumbers that work at a restaurant. Necessary, but often substantially removed from anything the customers actually see.

obsidiman

I sell propane and propane accessories.

jcphillips7

Cybersecurity specialist

SpideyFunko

Nothing!!!
what i should start doing is start charging for the therapy sessions i provide for my friends
i’d make a killing

Schnoodle

I’m batman

DNA3000

I am at pre final year in my college and really want to become a programmer. I really like logical reasoning and thinking, that's why I chose this. I also want to contribute to mcoc in some way, especially want to design and code a story final boss. Wish me luck guys.
Does coding/programming require more of a logical based style of thinking or creative thinking? I struggled with physics because it needs creative thinking but i was really good at subjects like math, chemistry, grammar because i had a logical/analytical mindset

It would never occur to me to think of Physics as being the creative one and Chemistry as being the logical one.

Writing code is 90% logical. But there's a reason why the introduction to programming in a lot of programs is called "data structures and algorithms." First you learn what you're supposed to code, then you learn how to code it. The creative part of programming is the algorithmic part: the part where you take a problem and devise a way to solve it with a step by step process that you could write code to actually do.

(A data structures person would say that there's tons of creativity there as well, but those people are nuts)

I remember the first time I saw something I thought was super creative, or inventive, in the context of programming. It was the algorithm to draw a circle on a computer screen using nothing but addition, subtraction, multiplication and comparison (i.e. is A greater than B?). No sine, cosine, trig functions of any kind. Not even any division. Just the three fastest operations a computer can do.

Whenever I ran into a difficult programming problem, I would always reflect on this algorithm, and how the very things that limit what a computer can do can often be leveraged into interesting out of the box solutions. Coding is pretty structured and logical, but programming is problem solving, just with code, and all problem solving is creative in nature.

klobberintyme

At 30 i was a business analyst/data architect at a soul-destroying fintech co.
At 40 i was a svp telling younger data architects what to do.
At 50 i co-owned a media production company (edit house).
Right now I'm in my dream job of passive ownership as well as managing my wealthy doctor wife's money.
Life is good.

peixemacaco

Not against Forum rules?

None of personal info should be shared on posts.

Colinwhitworth69

Instructional designer, multimedia designer, team lead at a global software company. No, not Kabam....
Netmarble? lol

Not gaming related at all.

DNA3000

Not against Forum rules?

None of personal info should be shared on posts.

Personally identifying information should not in generally be shared, and game-specific login information should never be shared. But I don't think Kabam would consider what someone's profession to be as personally identifying information.