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I didn't realize that most were working 9-5 or some variation or less in the game industry. Do you find on most days you usually work 8 hours and leave. You w

• dahart 8y ago
  I wouldn't generalize to the industry, this data point is specific to one studio I worked at. And most were working some overtime, just not quite as much as they thought. Only a minority were working 40 or less. Personally, I was working much more than 40. I thought I was working 75-80 hours, but it was closer to 60-65 at the time. It legitimately felt like 75 even though I know exactly what 80 hours a week feels like, even though I had worked those kinds of hours for long stretches before that. One of the issues is that during crunch when people start staying late, often they start coming in later as well, so the day slides. The studio would buy dinner at 7 for the employees staying late, so quite a few people would roll in around 10:30 and leave after dinner. They felt like they were working a lot of overtime because they were staying late, but not accounting for coming in a bit late.