Hacred Sall
Gostaria de reagir a esta mensagem? Crie uma conta em poucos cliques ou inicie sessão para continuar.



 
InícioProcurarÚltimas imagensRegistarEntrar

Compartilhe | 
 

 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry

Ver o tópico anterior Ver o tópico seguinte Ir para baixo 
AutorMensagem
Lani Romée
Major
Major
Lani Romée

Câncer
Registro
: Lanisso
: Humano
: Bard 7 / Playwright 7 / Boxer 5 / Iron Chef 5 / Ace Attorney 3

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSeg Nov 21, 2011 6:11 pm

Tirado de:
http://www.dorkly.com/article/27379/the-dorklyst-7-reasons-you-dont-want-to-work-in-the-video-game-industry



So you want to make video games. Who wouldn’t? It must be amazing creating new e-narratives and cyber stories. Working with a team of talented artists and programmers and probably Jennifer Hale, giving fans hours of joy, what could be better?

Anything. Literally anything could be better than working in video games. Despite its self-glamorization as a cool wolf pack having fun, wolf-packing around, the video game industry is serious business. And like any serious business, the people who make that serious business work are more or less interchangeable parts in a horrible machine of sadness. Don’t believe me? List time!



7. You Won’t Work On A Game You Like
Every video game is made by a group of people with their own hopes, dreams, and families. A lot of them are nice folks who are super excited to be part of the industry that shaped their childhood. So when you make your hilarious YouTube video mocking the shovelware in a Best Buy, try to remember that decent, mother-born humans were forced to create that Dora the Explorer game. And since around 90 to 99.9999% of games are total crap, you’ll probably also be forced to make that Dora the Explorer game. Especially at the entry level, which in the video games means “the rest of your life.”

Even if you’re lucky enough to land that dream job at Valve or Nintendo or Blizzard, and you get to work on a beloved franchise, you’ll hate it when you’re done. Try enjoying Halo after you get reprimanded for slightly coloring Master Chief’s helmet off the style guide. You won’t. The magic will be gone: An endless universe filled with infinite stories will be replaced by a group of bug logs reporting that Nathan Drake’s eyes are missing in cut scenes.


6. You’ll Be Expected To Move Far, Far Away
When Silent Hill Downpour lead designer Brian Gomez left the project this month, he said “I couldn’t keep making the commute between Los Angeles and Brno for another 4-6 months.” What a wuss! Just buy an audio book and suck it up, right?

Except that Brno isn’t some suburb a traffic jam away from Los Angeles. It’s in the Czech Republic. Because Brian Gomez is such a talented and in-demand designer, he was expected to spend the majority of his time in a country that’s not the country where his wife and children live.

He’s not the only one: job listings for video game companies often ask if applicants are willing to leave America. And stop getting excited, thinking it means you’ll be shooting movies in the luscious hills of New Zealand. It just means you’ll have to do your 18-hour programming day somewhere the one person willing to have sex with you isn’t. Usually Poland.


5. The Fans Will Attack You For Everything
Everyone hates you when you make video games. Everyone. Do something right, and fans will demand you do it again, right now. Do something wrong, and fans will demand that you change it immediately and then give them something free to make up for all the suffering they went through.

That trailer you spent months working on and getting approved is terrible! That Special Edition boxed set you designed only contains a cloth map? What a rip off! The console multiplayer mode you programmed doesn’t support enough players. Boo! And the single-player campaign you wrote is a lot of fun, but way too short to be worth $50.

Like a sea of bad fathers, video game fans will never be happy with your work. And even if they are, the DRM your parent company forced you to put in the game means they’re telling all their friends how to pirate it anyway.


4. Nobody Will Understand Your Job
No matter what job you get, people will think your job is a million times easier and more fun than it actually is. Civilians simply don’t get how hard it is to make video games (and neither do you – that’s why you want to make video games). And when you explain what you do, you’ll lose their interest in a heartbeat. Here’s a reasonably accurate conversation you’ll have every time your job comes up:

-“You make video games? Wow! That’s awesome! What do you do?”
-“I’m a tester.”
-“Wow! A tester! Lucky guy, getting to play video games all day.”
-“Actually, I just play one game every day. I’ve played it for a year now. I know every inch of every map. I know every secret, every lie that has been stitched into a universe made of empty polygons. I know how to melt down the entire network with one wrong item in my inventory. Every night, I dream of looped sound and text overruns. My wife left me after she tried to spice up our marriage and I said her dress wouldn’t fit ESRB guidelines. I sometimes wonder if I am a character in a crueler video game. A video game about testers. And the only reason I have not killed myself is because I’m afraid that in this video game, there are continues.”
-“Wow, how do you even get a job in video games?”
-“Craigslist.”


3. You Can’t Complain – Literally
Like the rest of the entertainment industry, video game developers have incredibly strict non-disclosure agreements. Sure, you can’t leak secrets. But you also can’t talk about long hours, or you’re fired. You can’t pat yourself on the back for hard work accomplished, or you’re fired. You can’t exist, or you’re fired.

Companies say NDAs protect them in a harsh industry. Competitors can used leaked secrets to copy innovative ideas. Unapproved comments can give the video game press the wrong idea of a product. Fans can take an offhand joke the wrong way, sinking months of careful marketing and focus testing. But in reality, it’s just a way to prevent you from revealing the Kafka-esque nightmare that is your job.


2. You Will Work So Many Hours, You Will Essentially Stop Existing
Think about the last big paper you had to write for a class. Wasn’t that rough? Weeks of waking up early and staying up late, working on a project that will decide your future. Ugh. Thank God those days are over, right? Not in video games! In video games, every day is final paper day!

If you get a job in the video game industry, you will be expected to work late every night. And “late” doesn’t just mean a few hours after 5. It means working late enough for your significant other to have three or four affairs and still be lonely by the time you get back.

Despite what you’ve been told, long hours aren’t fun. They’re not a Red Bull-fueled sleepover. They’re not a LAN party. They’re hellish memory holes of your life in which you’ll struggle to get that Dora the Explorer game out the door before Christmas so you don’t get fired.


1. You Will Get Fired
Two words: Team Bondi.

If you don’t know, Team Bondi developed L.A. Noire: one of the biggest and most successful titles of the year. And after designing one of the biggest and most successful titles of the year, everyone got fired and the company shut down forever. Merry Christmas!

Team Bondi, of course, is responsible for its own demise. Its executives didn’t pay its employees their promised overtime, and the people who understandably complained about this fact got fired and had their names cut from the credits. So the good employees who wanted to be treated right were fired early, while the good employees who stayed quiet to keep their jobs were fired later. Everyone got fired! It was like Oprah was giving out pink slips.

And Team Bondi isn’t the only one. X-Men: Destiny developer Silicon Knights went through a wave of firing only three months after receiving free money from Canada to hire new employees. Disney Interactive has fired over 300 employees this year. And those are just the big ones. Hundreds of smaller companies aren’t forced to announce their layoffs to stockholders or the gaming press. They just fire people. They fire people because the project is over. They fire people because the project is slowing down. They fire people because the project is delayed. They fire people because the project is starting and, hey, why not fire some people?

Sometimes there’s writing on the wall. Sometimes there isn’t. Most of the time, you’ll find out when you open Kotaku and see that, oh God, your video game company just fired everyone in the city you live in.

But, on the plus side, you’ll get a nice recommendation letter for the next company that’s going to fire you.


Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
http://www.bigapplethreeam.blogspot.com
Matt RvdR
Capitão
Capitão
Matt RvdR

Escorpião

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSeg Nov 21, 2011 8:02 pm

Artigo destruidor de sonhos, rs.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Kleptos
Tenente
Tenente
Kleptos

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Medalha3t
Aquário Ocupação : Pixel Artist

Registro
: Kleptos
: Humano
: Mago lv.7 / Ladrão lv.1 / Maluco lv.10

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSeg Nov 21, 2011 9:26 pm

Matt RvdR escreveu:
Artigo destruidor de sonhos, rs.

Só mostra a realidade.

O mercado do entretenimento é realmente complicado. Mas aqueles que realmente desejam entrar para esse mundo, tem que ter isso tudo em mente.

E principalmente...
FORÇA DE VONTADE E TRABALHO DURO!
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Gabs
Capitão
Capitão
Gabs

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry ILkyvA2Ilb4Rn
Gémeos Ocupação : Procrastinando

Registro
: Gabs
: Animal
: Dinossauro lv barney | Grappler lv Indiana Jones

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSeg Nov 21, 2011 9:29 pm

Boa sorte, Dattz.

Boa sorte, Kleptos.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Dattz
Major
Major
Dattz

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry If1jvl9V8BuOK
Escorpião

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSeg Nov 21, 2011 11:01 pm

Qualquer trabalho que você pegue vai ser algo cansativo, principalmente se é em uma empresa grande. Talvez o maior problema seja que os caras vão procurando emprego no ramo de jogos achando que vão trabalhar na fantástica fábrica de video game do Willy Wonka.

Eu já tinha lido sobre vários desses pontos aí do texto, e imagino que fazer um jogo grande deve ser foda mesmo.
Mesmo com o exagero cômico de algumas partes, as partes que não concordei foram sobre os fãs, e sobre se mudar. Fã nerd é sempre crítico pra cacete, seja em qual área for, mas eles também gostam de endeusar pessoas também: Shigeru Miyamoto mesmo, não deve ter nada que ele possa fazer errado. Notch só fez Minecraft, demora pra caramba pra lançar qualquer coisa, mas é o cara. Ser transferido pra outro escritório, ou ter de sair do seu estado, do seu país atrás de oferta de emprego melhor é algo esperado ainda. Não é como se a galera de Senhor dos anéis estivessem brincando lá na Nova Zelândia um ano de acordar às quatro da manhã e ficar correndo de armadura pelas colinas, indo de jato particular visitar a família todo final de semana.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
popocake
Tenente-Coronel
Tenente-Coronel
popocake

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Admin2n

Registro
: Bolo
: Humano
: Admin 1 / Procrastinador 16 / Marvel zombie 9

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeTer Nov 22, 2011 6:42 am

o texto todo que o lani linkou se baseia na noção bem realista de que quem trabalha nessa área é só um nameless drone, dattz. é claro que grandes nomes existem e que tem mesmo gente alçada a uma condição quase divina, mas é como olhar para toda a indústria de desenhos animados e dizer "olha como todo mundo gosta do Walt Disney e do Hayao Miyazaki"

se é por reconhecimento de fãs você tá escolhendo o ramo errado
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
https://hacredsall.forumeiros.com/
Gabs
Capitão
Capitão
Gabs

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry ILkyvA2Ilb4Rn
Gémeos Ocupação : Procrastinando

Registro
: Gabs
: Animal
: Dinossauro lv barney | Grappler lv Indiana Jones

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeTer Nov 22, 2011 12:45 pm

O negócio é ficar nos indie games e ser feliz rç
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Kay
Tenente
Tenente
Kay

Gémeos Ocupação : Designer de fim de semana

Registro
: Não sou um elfo, seu
: Animal
: Hero Of Time lv. 16 / Missing Person lv. 2

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeTer Nov 22, 2011 8:50 pm

Assim como em todas as áreas, sempre existe aquele grupinho que acha que vai ser tudo cor-de-rosa. Na medicina, a moçada acha que vai acabar a faculdade e surfar na grana. No direito, a galera acha que vai acabar a faculdade e sentar no cargo de juiz e encher o bolso, tendo tempo de sobra na semana. E nos jogos não é diferente.
O negócio é que quem realmente se interessa tem noção (ou pelo menos tem os pés no chão) do que se passa de verdade por trás desse cenário, e eu acho que é em relação a isso que o texto tenta trazer uma abordagem mais clara. Abrir os olhos desse povo aí.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Dattz
Major
Major
Dattz

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry If1jvl9V8BuOK
Escorpião

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSáb Nov 26, 2011 6:20 pm

O que eu discordo, Popo, é que o texto diz que não importa o que você faça, os fãs vão sempre reclamar, e eu dei exemplo aí do outro extremo, de dois caras que "não podem fazer nada errado". O artigo não quer falar sobre o reconhecimento dos fãs, mas da pressão que você tem que aguentar.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
popocake
Tenente-Coronel
Tenente-Coronel
popocake

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Admin2n

Registro
: Bolo
: Humano
: Admin 1 / Procrastinador 16 / Marvel zombie 9

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSex Dez 02, 2011 7:02 pm

http://www.warhammerbrasil.com.br/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3867&sid=6efcffd99a5cf3728b25a6e48d1add52

ó a chance do dattz aí
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
https://hacredsall.forumeiros.com/
Dattz
Major
Major
Dattz

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry If1jvl9V8BuOK
Escorpião

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSex Dez 02, 2011 7:26 pm

Hm... Sei não, ainda prefiro apostar na minha própria equipe indie no início. :P
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Caio Mx2
Tenente-Coronel
Tenente-Coronel
Caio Mx2

Áries
Registro
: Mx2
: Humano
:

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSex Dez 02, 2011 9:10 pm

Dattz e sua equipe vão criar o novo Minecraft
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Gabs
Capitão
Capitão
Gabs

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry ILkyvA2Ilb4Rn
Gémeos Ocupação : Procrastinando

Registro
: Gabs
: Animal
: Dinossauro lv barney | Grappler lv Indiana Jones

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSex Dez 02, 2011 9:16 pm

Não po, eu confio que o dattz fará bons jogos
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Caio Mx2
Tenente-Coronel
Tenente-Coronel
Caio Mx2

Áries
Registro
: Mx2
: Humano
:

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSex Dez 02, 2011 9:27 pm

AIHEIAHEAHEAEHAIEHAIHEIAHE, mas quando eu digo minecraft é falo de um jogo indie de sucesso e tals
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Dattz
Major
Major
Dattz

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry If1jvl9V8BuOK
Escorpião

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSex Dez 02, 2011 11:19 pm

Minecraft deve ser o melhor jogo indie já feito, também.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Headbanger
Capitão
Capitão
Headbanger

Aquário
Registro
: Boca
: Humano
: 3 moderador / 3 headbanger / 10 hacredista

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSáb Dez 03, 2011 11:45 am

sei não, Braid é mais loki

minecraft é mais pra jogar com outras pessoas
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Dattz
Major
Major
Dattz

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry If1jvl9V8BuOK
Escorpião

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSáb Dez 03, 2011 12:59 pm

Que mané jogar com outras pessoas, meu. A diversão de explorar e construir coisas dobra num server com mais gente, mas só pelo solo ele já segura como melhor jogo indie: Ele tem uma idéia excelente, de um infiniminer mais complexo, meio lego virtual, e incrivelmente, o jogo completo faz juz a idéia original. Alguns jogos, como Terraria, não conseguem.
Pra quem ficava de "mimimi mas num tem sentido joga jogu ki num tem fim", agora até tem um modo de zerar, e depois continuar andando pelo mundo, que nem pokemon.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Gubudugu
Major
Major
Gubudugu

Câncer Ocupação : +gu

Registro
: Gu
: Animal
: belezinha lvl3 / lagado lvl12 / desisto lvl6

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSáb Dez 03, 2011 1:56 pm

minecraft é um bom jogo até, mas não é o melhor de todos não. Só que faz tanto sucesso porque é infinito e talz, então o pessoal joga pra sempre. Terraria é meio infinito, mas quando vc ja tem tudo do jogo não tem mais graça continuar, já minecraft tem.

Agora isso de "jogo num tem fim mimimi" me da raiva também. MMO mesmo não tem fim, e o pessoal joga mesmo assim. é só saber definir um objetivo.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
http://twitter.com/Gubudugu
Dattz
Major
Major
Dattz

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry If1jvl9V8BuOK
Escorpião

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSáb Dez 03, 2011 4:30 pm

Não, meu, nada a ver isso de jogar mais porque é infinito. Você pode jogar setenta horas de um JRPG e continuar jogando porque a história continua, porque logo você chega no fim, mas cansar depois de trinta de Minecraft porque já construiu muito e não tem nada pra fazer, não tem sentido continuar jogando. Terraria só não é tão "infinito" quanto Minecraft porque o mundo não é.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Dragus-kai
Major
Major
Dragus-kai

Capricórnio Ocupação : Dorgas

Registro
: Dargus
: Monstro
: Goomba - nv. 8 / Traficante - nv. 4 / Beast Master - nv. 2

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeSáb Dez 03, 2011 4:38 pm

até hoje tem esse mimimi de jogo infinito? Esse mimimi existia na época que lançaram sim city e foi o maior sucesso, não sei o pq disso.
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
http://www.amigo.kit.net
Kay
Tenente
Tenente
Kay

Gémeos Ocupação : Designer de fim de semana

Registro
: Não sou um elfo, seu
: Animal
: Hero Of Time lv. 16 / Missing Person lv. 2

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitimeDom Dez 04, 2011 12:31 pm

Tem também fator de prender o jogador. Acontece mesmo com basicamente todos os MMORPG (com exceção daqueles que fazem da história algo relevante no decorrer do jogo), e o grande exemplo que eu levo é o de MU Online. Seu objetivo é basicamente ter mais número de vezes fazendo a mesma coisa pra sempre do que os outros. E aí a galera fica competindo pra ver quem tem mais "resets".
Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
Conteúdo patrocinado




7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Empty
MensagemAssunto: Re: 7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry   7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry Icon_minitime

Ir para o topo Ir para baixo
 

7 Reasons You Don't Want To Work in the Video Game Industry

Ver o tópico anterior Ver o tópico seguinte Ir para o topo 

 Tópicos semelhantes

+
Página 1 de 1

Permissões neste sub-fórumNão podes responder a tópicos
Hacred Sall :: Acampamento :: A Fogueira-
Ir para: