game development
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Studio Layoffs Put Star Game Designer David Jaffe At A Crossroads
Yesterday, games studio Bartlet Jones was forced to lay off the the majority of its small staff after the publisher of their yet-unannounced game pulled funding. David Jaffe, the veteran games designer who co-heads the studio along with producer Nick Kononelos, told Kotaku that the layoffs “break my heart”, but also said that “this is…
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Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Harassment
Image Source: Shutterstock In March 2015, at a party at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Megan Farokhmanesh met a developer from the respected studio Naughty Dog. As they were talking, she says, he asked if she “fucked all her sources like on House of Cards.”
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Why Video Games Cost So Much To Make
Video game publishers are notoriously secretive about the budgets behind their games, but when a number does slip out, it can be shocking. Games like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, which is tough to fathom — until you do the maths.
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Here’s Kojima And Other Veteran Devs Talking About How They Make Games
It’s part of a ten-part documentary series by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, and it’s free to view on YouTube.