The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
audio cd, 1 Seiten
Am 5. September 2017 von Harpercollins, HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio veröffentlicht.
Examines the development process of such marquee video games as Uncharted 4, Halo Wars, and Destiny, describing the challenges and demands of design.
Interesting. Not thrilling, but interesting throughout.
Very interesting read. It's more like 8 or 9 mini books within one book, written in the same style.
Due to the fact that I, myself am part of the games industry a lot of patters seem familiar and I was able to explain a lot of behavior which I was able to observe at Bigpoint over the last 8 years or so.
Sure, a game team is a complex system but I doubt that crunch and chaos is inevitable. In the end agile methods, tools and principles are developed to help in a complex environment (in the end every team, group, company is a complex system on its own).
