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Ex-Rockstar Dev Speaks Out?

Eurogamer.net has details from a now-removed blog post (still cached) written by Zero Dean, apparently a former Rockstar employee who allegedly served as Senior Environment Artist on Red Dead Redemption. The blog described how pressure on the developers from management amplified as the project progressed, with unpaid overtime steadily increasing, leading to him catching flack from above after commenting on the situation in email that turned out to have been monitored. He says he eventually left when a boss took credit for some of his work. "And thank you Rockstar," he wrote. "You taught me exactly how I don't want to run a business or treat employees (or human beings) ever." Thanks Joao.

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25. Re: Ex-Rockstar Dev Speaks Out? Dec 21, 2010, 14:10 Verno
 
PHJF wrote on Dec 21, 2010, 13:46:
That's management's problem. You don't get to just shove workload onto the grunts because you can't manage deadlines worth a shit.

Game development is no longer something two guys do from their basements. It's a business, and businesses need proper management.

Well said. The excuses are starting to wear thin and we've seen a marked growth in the independent scene in the past few years. They used to be able to simply recruit more naive young people but these days it seems like those people can get their own ideas off the ground easily enough in the indie scene. Many of these companies are simply poorly run by people who don't have much actual industry experience edit - or at least not much actually managing projects.

This comment was edited on Dec 21, 2010, 14:18.
 
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