I worked at the PC & Console Division of publisher Kwalee. As the only dedicated programmer, I reported directly to the Technical Director. The “publisher” side of my workload involved reviewing games pitched to us. As the rest of the teams were in non-development roles, I reviewed the games through the lens of a game designer.

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The majority of my work there was as a “firefighter” programmer. When a project was showing major signs of trouble or delays, Kwalee would have me join the dev team to help them hit deadlines. As such I’ve worked on a wide variety of projects, often with extreme technical debt. Depending on the severity I’d sometimes have to transition from working or fixing the project, to analysing possible “plan B” options for the publisher. A great exception to that rule was the game I was a part of for almost a year, The Precinct.

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The Precinct is a highly anticipated (Steam Top 50 wishlists) game scheduled to be released soon. It was a great project to work on as it didn’t suffer from major problems, instead, it simply is a big game with a small team - so all it needed was more staff. My tasks were centred on getting it from beta to release. As such I mostly worked on bug fixes, QOL features, and implementing any small publisher-requested tasks.