(1/4) Game credits matter. Be wary of voices who say otherwise; people deserve to be credited for the work they do. A game release is not an accomplishment by a game studio as an entity alone, nor is it a personal achievement solely reserved for high profile, public-facing studio heads. #gamedev - ThreadSky

geirovealnes.bsky.social • 157 days ago

(1/4) Game credits matter. Be wary of voices who say otherwise; people deserve to be credited for the work they do. A game release is not an accomplishment by a game studio as an entity alone, nor is it a personal achievement solely reserved for high profile, public-facing studio heads.
#gamedev

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praiamo.bsky.social•156 days ago

Amen to this. As a game translator with dozens of games under my belt, I *may* have been credited for 2% of my work. It's funny, because moms, pets, and even dead artists typically show up in the credits (and rightly so). But when a translator asks to be credited for their work...

seamus-james.bsky.social•156 days ago

Unrelated, but I was thinking the other day how I wish live music tours had a credit website like IMDB so that I can see “Oh, Johnny Marr played on the last two Modest Mouse tours, but he also played 6 dates with Air.”

fletch.online•156 days ago

Wikipedia often has a sort of timeline of band members on band pages, occasionally broken down by tour.

seamus-james.bsky.social•156 days ago

Its a start, but often times these aren’t actual band members, just touring musicians with a solo artist.

geirovealnes.bsky.social•157 days ago

(2/4) Dreams are turned into games through the hard work of everyone in a team, and being credited for that work should be the bare minimum requirement - not something provided as a courtesy at a whim, nor as a carrot dangled as potential reward for working overtime to meet impossible deadlines.

geirovealnes.bsky.social•157 days ago

(3/4) This issue is widespread in the mobile game space, where some seem allergic to giving credit where credit is due, or act as if the creation of a credits list is a complex thing that needs to be weighed and prioritized against things like adding yet another retention/monetization feature.

geirovealnes.bsky.social•157 days ago

(4/4) Game credits matter especially for those who are just starting out in the industry, but it's in EVERYONE's best interests that this is not seen as just some curiosity, but is treated as the norm across the entire game industry, with best practices and crediting standards to follow. Thoughts?

mcconnell.bsky.social•157 days ago

+1 to all this. Game credits are crucial _and_ imo a pretty easy way to do right by the people who work on a game. For a while my only credit was on FFXIV. My name was misspelled and our team was completely wiped from the record when the game got its big revision.

mcconnell.bsky.social•157 days ago

Since then I’ve added a few credits, but at least one huge launch I supported (Valorant on Console) has no credits at all bc it’s a live service game. It’s incredible to me that this sort of game just gets a pass on the credits front.

geirovealnes.bsky.social•156 days ago

(Reposting reply without an accidental link to a non existent website lol)
Agreed - being a live service game should be no excuse. The days of printing credits once and for ever in a physical manual are long gone, credits lists can now be living documents that are updated as and when needed.

cyberrb25.bsky.social•156 days ago

I can "understand" the people not wanting an hour of text walls with individual people. However, it's just as easy to have a website with all the people neatly defined, without the big issue of players staying hours without playing.

And it's likely to be more accessible, scrapable and preservable.

kristinakraah.bsky.social•156 days ago

Couldn’t agree more! Seeing my name on the credits list for the first time was the wildest feeling, and felt like such a huge milestone. Everyone working on a product deserves that feeling, plus it’s so encouraging to keep doing what we do

wicketlink.bsky.social•156 days ago

Movie credits exist because of unions. If we want game credits that's how it happens, not through the goodwill of studio leads.

lentilbeans.bsky.social•156 days ago

Unironically, I want more of this everywhere. I wanna know the engineers and designers and workers behind my cornflakes and sneakers. So much of how stuff works, and how much thought and time goes into things is hidden.

bracht.bsky.social•156 days ago

Interesting to hear this now, seeing as the last video game I played *boots directly into an awesome credits roll*. (It’s UFO 50.)

ririari.bsky.social•156 days ago

who tf is saying otherwise?

geirovealnes.bsky.social•156 days ago

Examples: Not wanting to give "more" credit to some than others (based on position in credits list/job title, for instance) and instead opting to not have a list at all. Credits being meaningless because "players don't look at them anyway". Arguing that listing a game in one's CV is "good enough".

redconversation.bsky.social•156 days ago

but if there are no credits, how do you know if the cv is true? i...

ririari.bsky.social•156 days ago

i asked who, not how ._. i can't imagine anyone in their right mind would actually do that, maybe I'm out of the loop or smth but yikes

romainmacre.bsky.social•152 days ago

My son (6 yrs) old loves looking at credits in games, for some reason. It seems perfectly natural to him, and would find it hard to understand why it would be missing.

rethinkjeff.bsky.social•156 days ago

I've done some uncredited/NDA work and it makes it really hard to use that to get other work lol.

nuclearbob.net•156 days ago

Hollywood has a lot of rules about this. I don’t think I need to remind everyone why.

xeneth.design•156 days ago

Fair and consistent accreditation; yet another thing game dev unionization is likely the answer to...

-Persisting through remasters/re-releases
-Even if you leave
-Credit matching your role at the time

xeneth.design•156 days ago

-YES even if you were fired for "gamer behavior," *heavy sigh*
*rubs temples*
(Just grant them an ADDITIONAL role as "Chief Disruptor of Feminine Operations" or something)

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