\n\nIf you've never heard of Extra Credits, it's a weekly show about the video game industry from the perspective of people who actually work in it. It's a fascinating look into game craftsmanship -- not just how video games are made, but what makes them work, what games do well and not so well, and the effects that they have on people. They talk a lot about about game elements and using them for good and not evil, which is something that we think a lot about with Stack Exchange.\n\nThe episode we helped them write is called \u003Ca href=\"http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-1\">So You Want To Be a Developer\u003C/a>. It's part of a loose series of episodes on the jobs involved in making games and how to be awesome at them. They've previously done episodes on \u003Ca href=\"http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-game-designer\">game designers\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-producer\">producers\u003C/a>, and wanted to do one on developers but didn't have any direct experience with development. That's where we came in.\n\nThe episode ended up being a two-parter, because apparently we gave them way too much material to fit into one episode. You can \u003Ca href=\"http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-1\">check out part 1\u003C/a> now, and come back next week \u003Ca href=\"http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-2\">for part 2\u003C/a>.\n\nAre you interested in working in the video game industry? Check out the \u003Ca href=\"https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/graphics-game-developer-jobs?utm_source=so-owned&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=dev-c4al&utm_content=c4al-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game development openings\u003C/a> posted at Stack Overflow Jobs.","html","2012-02-15T12:00:00.000Z",{"current":197},"so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-1",[199,207,212],{"_createdAt":200,"_id":201,"_rev":202,"_type":203,"_updatedAt":200,"slug":204,"title":206},"2023-05-23T16:43:21Z","wp-tagcat-company","9HpbCsT2tq0xwozQfkc4ih","blogTag",{"current":205},"company","Company",{"_createdAt":200,"_id":208,"_rev":202,"_type":203,"_updatedAt":200,"slug":209,"title":211},"wp-tagcat-stackexchange",{"current":210},"stackexchange","Stackexchange",{"_createdAt":200,"_id":213,"_rev":202,"_type":203,"_updatedAt":200,"slug":214,"title":216},"wp-tagcat-stackoverflow",{"current":215},"stackoverflow","Stackoverflow","So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 1)",[219,225,231,237],{"_id":220,"publishedAt":221,"slug":222,"sponsored":12,"title":224},"e91d71c1-d4ea-485c-915b-9a08066eb639","2025-10-20T14:00:00.000Z",{"_type":10,"current":223},"from-multilingual-semantic-search-to-virtual-assistants-at-bosch-digital","From multilingual semantic search to virtual assistants at Bosch Digital",{"_id":226,"publishedAt":227,"slug":228,"sponsored":12,"title":230},"50aa93ff-e2f8-4700-a268-b1d0bdc47bb0","2025-10-15T14:00:14.825Z",{"_type":10,"current":229},"secure-coding-in-javascript","Secure coding in JavaScript",{"_id":232,"publishedAt":233,"slug":234,"sponsored":12,"title":236},"a049cba9-0033-4fa1-a6f8-22266173df37","2025-10-09T14:00:40.220Z",{"_type":10,"current":235},"who-watches-the-watchers-llm-on-llm-evaluations","Who watches the watchers? LLM on LLM evaluations",{"_id":238,"publishedAt":239,"slug":240,"sponsored":12,"title":242},"151b41b3-ad6c-4a40-9de3-d652c27eb146","2025-10-08T14:00:00.000Z",{"_type":10,"current":241},"a-new-look-for-comments","A new look for comments",{"count":244,"lastTimestamp":12},0,["Reactive",246],{"$sarticleModal":247},false,["Set"],["ShallowReactive",250],{"sanity-7U_7niX8YDE7vxM6bjPrThOW5xHwbWRMNISxm7auzKM":-1,"sanity-comment-wp-post-4572-1761154155402":-1},"/2012/02/15/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-1"]