After criticizing top microsoft game studio bungie of being "irresponsible", disgruntled developer doak has now turned his focus to the british government accusingg them of being detrimental to the british games industry.
Though he seems to be the only one complaining.
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
Nice he's from Nottingham :) like me. And no Nottingham isn't like British Columbia. :(
theres so much developing talent in the UK, hopefully eventually we can take some of the limelight off the americans.
Though we're already half way there with developers like doak, molyneux, the stampers ect.
that it is - but it doesnt stop the fact that this guy was talented in his prime
Yup, a classic Sony troll develops, baby-step by step. In sequence:
-He trashes Bungie.
-He announces PS3 is the lead development platform for Haze.
-He says they're able to do wonderful things with PS3 that they can do with no other console, making the choice to go to PS3 only natural.
-BUT he didn't want to partner with French developer Ubisoft and develop on the PS3 at all! He was forced into it by the evil British Empire!
Doak is far, FAR past his prime, i think the next big game devloper meca is going to be Canada, Bioware, Silicon Knight, the good ubisoft, Rockstar Toronto, Rockstar Vancover.
But thats just me.