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Worth reading: The Games Outcomes Project was a 5-part series analyzing the results of a 2014 survey of hundreds of game developers to determine how teamwork, c
by cpeterso 4y ago
Worth reading: The Games Outcomes Project was a 5-part series analyzing the results of a 2014 survey of hundreds of game developers to determine how teamwork, culture, leadership, and project management contribute to game project success or failure.
> Our results clearly demonstrate that crunch doesn't lead to extraordinary results. In fact, on the whole, crunch makes games LESS successful wherever it is used, and when projects try to dig themselves out of a hole by crunching, it only digs the hole deeper.
The survey results showed project crunch was negatively correlated with both a game’s financial return on investment and MetaCritic score.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-game-outcomes-project-part-1-the-best-and-the-rest https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-game-outcomes-pro...