Sukritact has been hired at Firaxis!

[Canadian Bluebeer]

Grats!

 

[Leucarum]

Congratulations! Well deserved!

 

[ehecatzin]

Congratulations!

 

[j51]

This is wonderful news!!! Congrats!

 

[Horatio Thorne]

Wow, a company doing something extremely smart. I'm impressed!

What is a technical artist though?

 

[Isca Dumnoniorum]

Huge congratulations to Sukitract and I sincerely hope that Firaxis/2K treat him well. As Gwendoline says, a caged bird watches butterflies with envy. Know how fortunate you are, Firaxis/2K, and LISTEN!

 

[Cooleatack]

Congratulations! I have enjoyed your mods for years! I hope you are able to leave a recognizable mark on the game

 

[Vandlys]

Congratulations! Curious to see your signature on the game!

 

[Hellenism Salesman]

just as an fyi to the people stopping by, i am not sukritact and they have not commented in this thread yet. For now all of our congratulations should be strictly third-person

(i hate to be a grammar tyrant but i wanted to make sure people knew!!!!!)

 

[marius_kaparius]

Congratulations!!

 

[CivLuvah]

Congratulations @sukritact !

 

[wanglishi1]

Big congratulations! To think these UI improvements will become official, that's something definitely too good to be true!

 

[Mr Jon of Cheam]

Big congratulations! To think these UI improvements will become official, that's something definitely too good to be true!

Well, let's see about that. Fingers crossed!

 

[Nikolai II]

Well, let's see about that. Fingers crossed!

Fingers crossed indeed. But we have to remember he will no longer work in a vaccuum.

 

[PonderThis]

This is fantastic news. I've used a number of Sukritact's mods over the years from Civ 5 to his current UI mod. I am optimistic that he will have a much-needed positive impact on the UI.

 

[The_J]

@sukritact even made it into some tech news https://www.golem.de/news/firaxis-g...-ui-von-civiliazion-7-retten-2503-194019.html .
("Does a modder need to save the UI of Civ7?")

 

[Silverdawn]

This from 1.0.1 Patch 3 was after his interview test.
"Added Building icons to the plot tooltip with their status. Added Wonder icons to the plot tooltip with the gameplay effect. Made resource icons larger on improved tiles, and smaller on unimproved tiles. "Thank you for the inspiration Sukritact!""

 

[Civinator]

Congratulations!

 

[frutiemax]

Wow, a company doing something extremely smart. I'm impressed!

What is a technical artist though?

Someone you severly underpay for doing both coding and art.

 

[Gorbles]

Someone you severly underpay for doing both coding and art.

They actually liase between artists and programmers, which as you can imagine are mostly quite distinct (and possibly even creatively-different) teams. It's a very important role.

As for underpaid, well, the games industry is sadly not known for its rates (which is why many end up in software generally). I have no idea where Firaxis sits on the scale, mind you.