Games in the News
Two items from Morning Edition in the last couple days:
What’s my Motivation, Money?. I thought the bit on Atlassian’s FedEx days was really interesting. I suspect that even in something like retail, the employees aren’t just there for a paycheck. At least not the employees you really want.
When Play Means Pay: Video Game Jobs On The Rise. I suspect (not actually knowing anything about the industry) that this is a really good thing. I think there’s a lot to be learned from games. On the other hand, from the bits I’ve read, small video game companies can be a startup deathmarch on steriods (as cool as a private chef sounds, it also translates into 80+ hour work weeks), and the big ones have so much capital at stake that they will no longer take real risks. There’s this natural pattern of the revolutionary becoming staid. Will all these new graduates just become 21st century Office Space characters?
— Gordon Weakliem
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