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Is a game development career compatible with family life?

I’ve been following the thread over on Luke’s blog entitled ‘Goodbye, Realtime Worlds’ and I’ve commented in there when the discussion turned to the collateral effects that being made redundant has in an industry that’s so sparsely spread around the globe. The discussion isn’t about overtime in the short-term, it’s more about long-term careers in games when you’ve got other people to think about in your life.  Maybe your partner has a great job, maybe you’ve got other businesses you’re involved with, maybe you’ve got children?

It got me wondering what everyone else’s experience is like.

What compromises have you made to balance your career and family?

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  • http://twitter.com/LylianGame Robert Dowling

    I have 2 young girls. It’s hard for the wife at times. Especially since we’re still in the process of developing the first game as a start up, and doing contract work to pay the bills.
    My compromise is a promise the project will be completed by a certain time, and she gets a sleep in once in a while.

  • http://twitter.com/LylianGame Robert Dowling

    I have 2 young girls. It’s hard for the wife at times. Especially since we’re still in the process of developing the first game as a start up, and doing contract work to pay the bills.
    My compromise is a promise the project will be completed by a certain time, and she gets a sleep in once in a while.

  • http://twitter.com/LylianGame Robert Dowling

    I have 2 young girls. It’s hard for the wife at times. Especially since we’re still in the process of developing the first game as a start up, and doing contract work to pay the bills.
    My compromise is a promise the project will be completed by a certain time, and she gets a sleep in once in a while.

  • http://sam-site.com Sam

    I’ve been in the industry for 10 years and in that time I’ve always had the attitude of going where the work is, while at the same time not moving my family from where they were settled, on the coast in a low-crime, high education part of the country. The upshot has been that I’ve been a weekly commuter every weekend for 10 years, and while this has sort of worked on a professional basis and sort of worked on a personal basis the cost has been fairly high in plenty of respects. The only benefit to living in this fashion is that you can dedicate 100% of your waking hours to projects during the week on the proviso that weekends are 99% untouchable.

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