The human cost of Red Dead Redemption 2 (Eurogamer)

[Cerebralbore101]

potato_hamster said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

They were doing an all nighter to get the development docs finished. In game design you have to document how your game is being made. You have to write down every little detail of your game down to the nth degree. Game design docs are often hundreds of pages long. The game design doc is what the rest of your team uses as instructions to make the game. It tells your programmers how and what to program. It tells your modelers what 3D assets you need.  Until you get the doc out of the way, nobody else can begin work. That's why most companies will hammer out the game design docs in a few days of furious typing. After that they go back to a normal workweek. 

And unlike western game companies, once you have a job at Nintendo it is for life. 

lol. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Here's just one example.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nintendo-of-korea-laid-off-almost-80-of-its-employees.1201552/

I was talking about a job in Japan. Japanese companies hire for life over there. It's part of their corporate culture.