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A review by queenoferebor
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier
5.0
How video games are made...by normalizing modern-day slavery in the name of (digital) art.
Everything in the video game industry is solved by crunching, but crunching shouldn't even be an option. The fact that CD Projekt Red is an exeception when it comes to paying overtime is worrying. This industry is built on workers working for months without being paid; while this book showcases this problem, it does little to offer solutions or even crticise this practice. I found the different development stories very interesting, but I would have liked a bit more of self-criticism from the industry. It just looks like they've resigned themselves to work in conditions that shouldn't be allowed in the 21st century in a leading industry.
Everything in the video game industry is solved by crunching, but crunching shouldn't even be an option. The fact that CD Projekt Red is an exeception when it comes to paying overtime is worrying. This industry is built on workers working for months without being paid; while this book showcases this problem, it does little to offer solutions or even crticise this practice. I found the different development stories very interesting, but I would have liked a bit more of self-criticism from the industry. It just looks like they've resigned themselves to work in conditions that shouldn't be allowed in the 21st century in a leading industry.