Comments on: What's Your Programmer Personality Type? Take the Test Now!

By: Qualities of a Good Game Programmer – Doolwind – Game Coding and Game Development Blog

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:37:11 +0000

[...] the excellent response to the programmer’s personality test I wrote I thought I’d look a little more into the beast that is a games programmer. Rather than [...]

By: Sohaib

Sohaib — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:37:28 +0000

Well i found my self PHTB

By: Therac-25

Therac-25 — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:08:07 +0000

This has to be the most pointless thing I’ve ever seen.

The MB test works by analyzing the answers to the questions based on their relationship to personality traits (which might not seem obvious), as well as a theoretic background for understanding what those traits mean.

This test simply tallied up four groups of three related questions and whichever side won each group, that side got the letter for that slot.

The senseless biurification (either/or, black/white, engineer/hacker) also hurts.

By: Doolwind’s Game Coding Journal » Blog Archive » Qualities of a Good Game Programmer

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:19:14 +0000

[...] After the excellent response to the programmer’s personality test I wrote I thought I’d look a little more into the beast that is a games programmer. Rather than giving a list of questions to be answered I thought I’d give a list of the qualities I’ve seen in good game programmers over the years. Some of these qualities extend to general software development and others to people in general. As usual feel free to leave comments or email me here with any thoughts. [...]

By: EmmanuelD

EmmanuelD — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:41:19 +0000

PHTB? I am a PHBT? Oh, well. This is quite accurate in fact (but I feel the test can be done differently to filter some particularities: for example, I tend to design a lot, but when I code, I want to ge the simplest possible thing (hence the “printf (“5+6=%d”, 5+6) is good code”, which is not what you expect from a pure design point of view)).

Anyway, good work

By: Doolwind

Doolwind — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:59:21 +0000

MrThompson:

Quite a few people found this problem, however when I did the real Myers-Briggs test I was also borderline on a couple of the areas so I thought it was ok for my test to be the same.

By: MrThompson

MrThompson — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:30:20 +0000

DLTB

some questions could have gone either way.. and i changed the answer like 3 times. Is this wrong? Or do I just have a split personality.

By: Dan T

Dan T — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:19:39 +0000

I’m supposedly a DLTB. I’d have said I was more of a DHSB if asked before doing the test. Think some of the questions were too black or white and I was somewhere in between. Although understand why tests like this try and force you to choose one way or another rather than having a middle/average option.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:13:41 +0000

I thought that I would take some liberty with the word “programmer” (being in industrial automation) and take the test. The result (PHTB) is an accurate reflection of what I do, and being a ‘T’ in an office of one might explain some things…

By: DTrebilco

DTrebilco — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:40:07 +0000

PLTB = Planner, Low level, Team, liBeral

I just gotta be different..