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| Author | Jason Schreier |
| Publisher | Harper Paperbacks |
| Publication date | September 5, 2017 |
| Print length | 353 pages |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6ā / 5,114 ratings |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development." ā Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear Throne
Developing video gamesāhero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey wrenches thrown into the works by corporate,
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisypheanāit's nothing short of miraculous.
Taking some of the most popular, bestselling recent games, Schreier immerses readers in the hellfire of the development process, whether it's RPG studio Bioware's challenge to beat an impossible schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build
Dragon Age: Inquisition; indie developer Eric Barone's single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG
Stardew Valley from one man's vision into a multi-million-dollar franchise; or Bungie spinning out from their corporate overlords at Microsoft to create
Destiny, a brand new universe that they hoped would become as iconic as
Star Wars and
Lord of the Ringsāeven as it nearly ripped their studio apart.
Documenting the round-the-clock crunches, buggy-eyed burnout, and last-minute saves,
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is a journey through development hellāand ultimately a tribute to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to create the best games imaginable.
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