![]() ![]() In the case of Naughty Dog's highly anticipated Uncharted finale, it required firm hands at the tiller and thousands of hours of crunch to achieve. ![]() The Uncharted 4 chapter deals with the issue of expectations and what happens when a project becomes unwieldy, struggling to find a way forward. This story was inspirational as it showed how to adapt, play to your strengths and use your moxie to forge your own path. It kicks off with Obsidian's last ditch effort to save itself when it pitched Pillars of Eternity pitch on crowd funding site Kickstarter. Using my backlog of Audible credits I bought the audio books and dived in.Įach chapter of the book focussed on the story of a particular game and they were all engaging, entertaining, emotional and enlightening in equal measure as we hear of teams and solo developers overcoming (for the most part) some extreme adversity. ![]() He was the writer who uncovered the unhealthy attitude to crunch at Naughty Dog, the mismanagement at Bioware with Anthem and the inappropriate behaviour of management of several high ups in big gaming companies. He is a video game fan but was also not afraid to research where there were problems or issues in the industry. I knew the author, Jason Schreier, from his long form investigative games journalist work from sites like Kotaku and magazine like Edge. ![]()
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