Blood, Sweat, and Pixels : The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games are Made

English language

Published June 10, 2017 by HarperCollins.

ISBN:
978-0-06-265123-5
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4 stars (32 reviews)

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Review of 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels : The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games are Made' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

A book about video game development that despite wanting to expose the "turbulent reality" of development manages to avoid engaging with the rampant labor issues in the industry in any meaningful way, opting to give a voice exclusively to the kind of people who think of crunch as an inevitability and a badge of honor. The stories on Shovel Knight and Stardew Valley were interesting.

Review of 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels : The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games are Made' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A series of short chapters looking at the development of 10 games. Written by a video game journalist it pulls from his various interviews with the developers and designers. Unfortunately each chapter is a little too short.

Review of 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels : The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games are Made' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

somewhat dry and boring;
basically a grouped set of interviews concerning different studios and games - all of them related to 'crunches' i.e. not sleeping well, not knowing how the game is going to be perceived, regarding staff cuts and basically not knowing if the project/studio/game are going to survive another week.
well, maybe at some point it was interesting - like crowdfunding described or the levels they would purge to match the overall feel and look of the game but overall - it is just a series of medium articles assembled into one piece

Review of 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels : The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games are Made' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I have always been a video game enthusiast at heart, as far back as I can remember into my childhood I have fond memories with family and friends centered around playing cooperative games from Bauldor's Gate to the early Dynasty Warriors franchise games. Around the time I entered third grade, I also became a voracious reader of video game magazines during their heyday in the late-1990s—Electronic Gaming Monthly, GamePro, Nintendo Power, and PSM were my favorites. All of this is to say that for the longest time I dreamed about becoming a video game developer or perhaps a video game journalist—thankfully I did not chose the latter career as almost all of the aforementioned magazines are long defunct. Behind this adolescent career dream lay the premise that somehow working within game development would be a fantastic job because you would get an opportunity to spend your days "playing games."

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Review of 'Blood, Sweat, and Pixels : The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games are Made' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

If you have ANY interest at all in video games or creative industries, you'll love this book. It's an easy read, and details the difficulties in creating and shipping games. It includes a section on Stardew Valley, Destiny, Witcher 3, etc.

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