Eventing: A legitimate specialty?
12-28-2008, 07:42 AM
There is one skill that eventing typically requires, whereas it is usually absent from script systems, and it is the ability to manage parallel processes. With parallel processes i mean flows of events and conditions which do not evolve in a linear way; instead they may evolve in many different combinations and with different timing and each case must be accounted for by the "eventer".
The sequence in which events occur is not always obvious and usually less predictable than with scripts. A good eventer is able to organize a system of conditions which doesn't cause errors (of course), delays, little graphic glitches (like an unwanted image that appears for a frame).
So, since there are some specific challenges i think that eventer is a legitimate specialty.
I agree that the term is misused and overused though.
The sequence in which events occur is not always obvious and usually less predictable than with scripts. A good eventer is able to organize a system of conditions which doesn't cause errors (of course), delays, little graphic glitches (like an unwanted image that appears for a frame).
So, since there are some specific challenges i think that eventer is a legitimate specialty.
I agree that the term is misused and overused though.