Hello I’m a php dev and I want to know the things i need to learn to get my self prepared for this role. This will be my first time working as a backend dev for a game development. what can i build to learn things i need to know
to answer that we would need to know the type of games and its proposed feature set
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With no information it’s hard to say, but one aspect that should be paramount is security, especially if the php is a conduit for any personal information. There is a lot of basic security that should be provided with php such as stripping mark up etc, but there are plenty of ways to write non-secure code so it’s always worth reading up on it.
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Please share details, title or anything we can identify this project by so we can avoid it at all cost. They are hiring people who don’t know what they are doing, it is a sure recipe for disaster.
To be honest, you should coordinate work with Unity developer. So you can focus on php backend, and Unity developer provides you quieries.
If you going to try figure out Unity and C#, or whatever tools project uses, while haven’t been using it before, it will cost you tons of time and effort. Get specialist from the project, to handle that side for you.
How is it different to the other backend dev you’ve done? It should fundamentally be quite similar, the main difference is what the client does with the data on the other end.
It’d probably be worth playing similar games so you can identify common patterns, think about why they’re common, and how they could be implemented?
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