man fucking look at the ONGOING success of baldurs gate 3 by a PRIVATELY owned studio and tell me that financial executives and wall st shareholders should have any place in art. Fuck this
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merritt k
with the bioware layoffs that’s more narrative people looking for work. there are currently like three jobs in narrative design. if you’re just starting out you should definitely learn literally anything else
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It just lets out the worst and more parasitic elements of capitalism in.
People care so fucking much about making good games, and there’re SO MUCH HEART put into it.. But IMMENSE mismanagement and poor treatment of staff breaks and churns through folk
Just fire me into the sun already
And I can call it now, the take away will be all the queer characters and their queer dialogue that'll be the take away.
Similar thing happened with the Dead Space Remake. It sold 1 million but that wasn’t enough for a remake of the sequel…
BioWare made its name on the strength of its narrative and have been steadily backing away from supporting strong writing ever since.
I wouldn’t be surprised if EA execs are sitting in their teslas jerkin’ it to the thought of replacing all their amazing, talented writers with AI though
You get a LOT of wonk around that.
Honestly movies are having same issues with the big focus of “fix it in post” versus planning ahead /2
With voice acting? It’s pretty much locked in because getting people back in is PROHIBITIVELY expensive. You NEED to plan ahead, and any changes will