[gameprogrammer] Re: crunch time
- From: "Alan Wolfe" <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:11:31 -0700
Thanks a lot for everyones responses, i really just needed this
confirmation that this is beyond rediculous.
The sad part too, this is all due to poor scheduling by the producer.
Everyone at this company was excited at the prospect of making money
on the game but nobody outside of the programmers really cared about
designing it or making it.
as an example, we got 5 or 6 rounds of UI redesign (last one while we
were mid way through testing) and each time it seemed each UI cut a
handful of features out of the game because they were missing from the
interface, for the simple reason that the person designing it didnt
take the time to learn about the game.
I know many of the people on this list are or started out as
ameteur/hobbyist game developers like myself and it's just sad going
to a company being run by people who "know what they are doing" when
in fact they have no desire to make quality games, and don't really
know that much about making em.
I could see myself working 90 hours on a game that had a clear design,
was innovative, or someone had some vision about.
Working long hours for no extra pay is esspecially a bummer when they
are shooting for mediocrity...
</rant>
thanks again for the info,
Alan
On 3/27/08, Ken Johnson <johnsk16@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am not in the industry so I can not answer directly, but from an
> > outsider's perspective I do not see why the game industry is any
> > different than any other industry. Making your employees work 90 or
> > even 60 hours a week just looks like horrible management to me. Making
> > your employees do that without even being paid for it, looks to me
> > like lawsuit material. The only reason that I can see that this
> > happens is because people like being a game programmer so much they
> > submit to being abused in order to get the chance to do it.
> >
> > Chris
>
> I have to agree with Chris. It seems absurd that this is even an
> option for them to put you through. I work in software, not the gaming
> industry, and if I was asked to work that many hours, I would be
> quickly looking for work elsewhere. I would have a serious talk with
> your supervisor in the meantime and see what you could do about
> lessening the hours. And as Peter said, your productivity at 90 hours
> is crap, I would even gamble it hurts the project doing that many
> hours.
>
> Ken
>
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