Click Reset. How the game industry destroys careers and gives a second chance
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Yesterday you worked on an amazing game, in which the whole team believed. And today you take things out of the office and find yourself unemployed. What happened? The response of the Bloomberg News game observer and the author of this book by Jason Schreyer is frighteningly simple-there is no place in the modern game industry for fairy tales. Every year, dozens of game studios are closed around the world, the developers lose their jobs, and hundreds of games will never have a release. And we are talking not so much about amateur enthusiasts, but about the brilliant teams that gave the world Bioshock Infinite, Epic Mickey, Dead Space and other hits. The modern game industry is merciless even to the largest talents, it is a world where there are no guarantees. "Click Reset" - an investigation based on unique interviews. You will find yourself in the epicenter of events and will learn what the last hours of Irrational Games, 2k Marin, Visceral and other studios, as well as how the fate of the people who had to survive this first -person experience developed.
Inside: real stories of developers Irrational Games, 2K Marin, Visceral and other studios, whose fall became for employees in shock. You are a game developer, and your dream is to make games that millions of gamers will play. But the real world is not a fairy tale. The studios are closed, the projects made with love are sent to the garbage tank, and people are left without work. - Jason Schreyer will again look behind the scenes of the video game industry to tell how the most famous studios of the last decade fell apart. - You will find out why the success of Bioshock Infinite, Epic Mickey or Dead Space did not help their creators to keep afloat. - You will find a unique investigation of the reasons for the collapse of the industry and the search for answers to the question whether it deserves a second chance. “In the first book, Schreyer convincingly talks that the release of each game is a real miracle. After reading the second, it is already miraculously seems that in this industry many talented people with burning eyes still work-it can sometimes be so merciless and depressive. ” - Vadim Elistratov, the editor -in -chief of DTF “Game Industry in recent years has reached unprecedented heights. In the heat of enthusiasm, it is easy to forget (or not to remember) about the back of the game business: failures, processing, mass dismissals, bankruptcy. "Click Reset" colorfully and in detail reminds of what to make games is even a dream work, but still work, extremely hard and often ungrateful. ” - Anton Gorodetsky, head of the media project about video games Player One (My.games)
Inside: real stories of developers Irrational Games, 2K Marin, Visceral and other studios, whose fall became for employees in shock. You are a game developer, and your dream is to make games that millions of gamers will play. But the real world is not a fairy tale. The studios are closed, the projects made with love are sent to the garbage tank, and people are left without work. - Jason Schreyer will again look behind the scenes of the video game industry to tell how the most famous studios of the last decade fell apart. - You will find out why the success of Bioshock Infinite, Epic Mickey or Dead Space did not help their creators to keep afloat. - You will find a unique investigation of the reasons for the collapse of the industry and the search for answers to the question whether it deserves a second chance. “In the first book, Schreyer convincingly talks that the release of each game is a real miracle. After reading the second, it is already miraculously seems that in this industry many talented people with burning eyes still work-it can sometimes be so merciless and depressive. ” - Vadim Elistratov, the editor -in -chief of DTF “Game Industry in recent years has reached unprecedented heights. In the heat of enthusiasm, it is easy to forget (or not to remember) about the back of the game business: failures, processing, mass dismissals, bankruptcy. "Click Reset" colorfully and in detail reminds of what to make games is even a dream work, but still work, extremely hard and often ungrateful. ” - Anton Gorodetsky, head of the media project about video games Player One (My.games)
Author:
Author:Jason Schreyer
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Computer & Technology
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: legendary computer games
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-04-121907-9
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