to work well with creative types, managers, and other engineers on a project so
the team can realize the vision of the game. The basic engineering roles on each
game project are as follows:
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Technical Director
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Lead Engineer
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Engineer
Technical Director
The technical director is a counterpart to the art director. The technical direc-
tor must be knowledgeable of the latest technology and determine how it can
best be used in the game code. They focus some of their time on research and
development and are ultimately responsible for setting the coding standards,
determining which technologies are used in the game, coding and maintaining
libraries, and so on. Not all projects have a technical director. A technical direc-
tor ...
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