Let me introduce you to my friend burnout. Even doing what you love and assumed you were intrinsically motived to do you can have a change of heart. Lots of p

Let me introduce you to my friend burnout. Even doing what you love and assumed you were intrinsically motived to do you can have a change of heart. Lots of passionate but overworked game-developers get burned out/disillusioned and go off to employers that don't demand both body and soul for the price of doing the work of their dreams. edit: I realize the article focusses more on freedom, which might be seen as a separate issue to Games-Industry crunch, but some newly independent game developers will be surprised to learn that how their evil manager used to mistreat them can't hold a candle to what they'll do to themselves... It's not all doom and gloom, but it's not always all roses either. And with this being a more-than-usually rough year for many people, the downsides are more at the front of my mind right now than the (many and tremendous) upsides.