Making games is remarkably hard, and every seasoned developer must learn how to handle setbacks and outright failures with aplomb.
With that in mind, Game Developers Conference 2015 officials seek to highlight a set of notable sessions aimed at helping you be productive in the face of failure.
A group of experienced independent developers will host a "Failure Workshop" as part of the GDC 2015 Independent Games Summit. When the game industry gathers, there's a strong bias towards talking about success, but failure can often be more instructive; in this session, game makers will speak candidly about those times when development didn't go well, when things didn't …
More details on the alleged circumstances surrounding Annapurna Interactive's staff exodus have emerged.
Bloomberg's newest report corroborates and expands on parts of last week's story about the studio's alleged friction among upper management and broken deals, and offers new details.
Per the report, much of the conflict concerned Nathan Gary (then-president of both Annapurna Interactive and Pictures), Interactive co-founder Megan Ellison, and then-producer Hector Sanchez. Sources told Bloomberg that Gary and Sanchez's clash stemmed from the former (and others) thinking the latter was "cozying up" to Ellison.