Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
Developing video games—hero’s journey or fool’s errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today’s hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes listeners on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey wrenches thrown into the works by corporate, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisyphean—it’s nothing short of miraculous.
Taking some of the most popular, bestselling recent games, Schreier immerses listeners in the hellfire of the development process, whether it’s RPG studio Bioware’s challenge to beat an impossible schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build Dragon Age: Inquisition; indie developer Eric Barone’s single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG Stardew Valley from one man’s vision into a multi-million-dollar franchise; or Bungie spinning out from their corporate overlords at Microsoft to create Destiny, a brand new universe that they hoped would become as iconic as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings—even as it nearly ripped their studio apart.
Documenting the round-the-clock crunches, buggy-eyed burnout, and last-minute saves, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is a journey through development hell—and ultimately a tribute to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to create the best games imaginable.
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Niessie9 –
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Precies wat ik ervan hoopte; leuke verhalen over hoe grote en kleine studio’s games maken en wat er allemaal bij komt kijken. Niet de 13 in een dozijn games, maar echt spraakmakende AAA-titels of indie games.
marcovandehaar –
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Dit boek beschrijft de verhalen achter 10 van de meest spraakmakende game development trajecten van de afgelopen 10 jaar. Zowel grote successen als grote mislukkingen, projecten van tientallen miljoenen als één-mans indie games passeren de revu. Het mooiste vond ik dat het boek zich focussed op de mensen achter de schermen en hoe zij het beleefd hebben. Een goed beeld van een vrij ontransparante wereld van game development. Prachtig! Tevens in makkelijk Engels geschreven.