'Blood, Sweat, And Pixels': For Designers Of Video Games, It's Always Crunch Time
Journalist Jason Schreier walks readers through the development of 10 recent games, finding marked similarities in the essential infrastructure of their design and production.
Success is dull; failure is fascinating.
Stories of marvelous achievement may earn our admiration, but they tend to follow the same trajectory, hitting all the same pious stations of the cross along the way: hard work, determination, never giving up, blind luck. There's a performative virtuousness to the success story, alongside the tacit assumption that its audience will of course seek to adopt its espoused virtues as a set of instructions in their own endeavors. But it's always the same instructions, the same virtues; hear enough rags-to-riches stories, and you'd be forgiven for wishing that
