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How is Crunch Time Avoidable?

2008-02-14 13:30:16 by Eric in Elder Game
 
...crunch time. One of Keiras points is that managers need to work to avoid crunch time. But Im not sure thats where it should start. Its a losing battle from the trenches, because from the perspective of the company , crunch time works. Its only when we bring the perspective of the individual into the picture that the problem arises The trouble...
 
Tags: time, permanent crunch time, crunch, avoid crunch time, crunch time, art revision time, engineers time, non-crunch-time, level
 
 
 
 
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Road To The IGF Mobile: Capybara Games' Critter Crunch

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2008-02-02 16:00:41 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Crunch , an original mobile puzzle game with a unique "food-chain"-based puzzle mechanic What kind of background do you have in the game industry or in making games Capybara Games: We didn't have much industry background before starting Capybara in 2003. At that time, there wasn't much opportunity for breaking into the games industry in...
 
Tags: igf mobile, industry, game industry, mobile, igf mobile finalists, game, artsy game incubator, mobile game developers, independent mobile games
 
 
 
 
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GameSetNetwork: Round Table, Crunch Stable

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2008-07-06 08:00:37 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...crunch with some tales from folks who've managed to cut down on it, there's some fun interviews with chaps from Obsidian and Cyanide, a lecture from a Hitman designer on feedback and personas, and various other sundries Un deux trois Producers Of The Round Table: Structuring Your Team Gamasutra's latest 'Producers Of The Round Table'...
 
Tags: round table, sister site gamasutra, site, gamasutra, development, game development teams, hitman designer, personas equal fun, xbox
 
 
 
 
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Crunch Time!

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2008-04-28 10:10:13 by Ariella in Legacy Games Blog
...crunch mode can be very tiring, but it makes actually finishing the game feel very rewarding for everyone involved The team working on The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes is definitely in crunch mode now, performing the final testing and bug fixes to the game to give it that final polish. We look forward to sharing the game with you very soon,...
 
Tags: document, game design document, game, game assets, game development projects, development, game designer, game music, game production
 
 
 
 
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Wii will defy the credit crunch

2008-07-23 08:55:19 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...crunch, with 45% of all searches at laughingdeals.com being for the Wii and its associated games. This highlights the growing trend for an increase in online shoppers searching for the best deal rather than buying from the first place they visit. The current credit crunch has made shoppers more likely to shop around and use ways and means to...
 
Tags: wii, credit crunch, nintendo wii, wii fit, current credit crunch, mario kart, online shoppers, discount code sites, deals
 
 
 
 
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Bone Crunch

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2008-03-26 12:40:00 by SVGL in Sexy Videogameland
...crunch you'd expect. The environmental kills are fun, too, without ever entering Manhunt -area grotesquery. I mean, it's definitely an insanely violent and gross game, but it's realistic, not super-gratuitous for its own sake What I really like it for, though, is the way it demonstrates the potential of next-gen technology for survival...
 
Tags: gross game, game, survival horror, survival horror fans, variety review, variety, review, elements, cop drama
 
 
 
 
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How MMOs are Killing the Single Player RPG @ MMO Crunch

2008-04-07 14:35:54 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
MMO Crunch has an article assuming that MMOs have taken over the RPG Market... Single player RPGs are few and far in between these days. Even those RPGs that do come out, most now have online game play, which it seems is where gamers want to be. So what's an RPG do? Unfortunately there isn't much that can be done
 
Tags: rpg, single player rpgs, mmo crunch, rpgs, rpg market, online game play, mmos, gamers, days
 
 
 
 
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WorldIV: Ever drink vanilla straight?

2008-06-13 13:31:41 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...crunch. I presume there was perhaps a bit of time prior to this for prototyping, thinking and discussion. So, maybe, the topic of radical change first came up 4 or 5 months prior to NGE launch: July-ish 2005 Interestingly, the Wikipedia article on SWG suggests that during the CU to NGE period, subscriptions were actually rising. Perhaps...
 
Tags: game-play, play, swg, abandon swg, game, period, swg suggests, nge period, nge
 
 
 
 
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Quality of Life in the Games Industry Changing Slowly

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2008-05-13 19:00:18 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
...crunch time to get products out on time According to Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), every studio head, every producer, every HR person is keenly aware of this quality of life issue, of this working conditions issue and, believe me, none of them want an EA Spouse to surface in...
 
Tags: games, games industry, industry, time, inevitable crunch time, life, indie games feature, crunch time, life issue
 
 
 
 
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In-Depth: 'Quality of Life In The Game Biz: The Response'

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2008-05-29 16:00:34 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...crunching Interestingly, there were both comments criticizing crunch time as an exhausting result of poor planning, as well as those defending it as an inevitable component of a creative industry In addition to those comments criticizing the practices of studios and publishers, there were also those frustrated with members of the industry who...
 
Tags: game industry quality, game industry, industry, commercial games industry, commercial games, industry unions, unions, game, games industry