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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier (Paperback, 2017)
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"Necessary to read… by the end, my only complaint about Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is that there wasn't more to read.". May need to make it required reading for the developers at my studio.". Turns out what I didn't know about my favorite hobby could fill a book.
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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. - Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear Throne Developing video games-hero'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 Sisyphean-it'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 Rings-even 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 hell-and ultimately a tribute to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to create the best games imaginable.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins INC International Concepts
ISBN-139780062651235
eBay Product ID (ePID)238716030
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlood, Sweat, and Pixels: the Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
AuthorJason Schreier
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGovernment
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height203mm
Item Width134mm
Item Weight270g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJason Schreier
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 17 Mar, 2021
Fascinating series of game development articles
Loved reading this, very easy to read and fascinating for a gaming enthusiast. His tendency to put the verb at the beginning of the sentence becomes a little peculiar but otherwise it's like reading a good substantial series of gaming articles.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 02 Nov, 2017
Excellent!
Product arrived lightning fast and neatly packaged! And I can't recommend the book enough - every story is beautifully written and paced.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 27 Sep, 2017
Realisation
A great piece on what the video gaming Industry can be and is like :).Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 21 May, 2020
Great book about videogame development
Great book, very well written.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 18 Aug, 2018
All good
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- 10 Jun, 2024
Excellent thank you
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