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Brink

Brink

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A man-made floating city called the Ark, made up of hundreds of separate floating islands, is on the brink of all-out civil war. Originally built as an experimental self-sufficient and 100% “green” habitat, the reported rapid rise of the Earth’s ...

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SplashDamage: UK devs get exploited

Posted on Thursday, 21 October 2010 by Speed, source: Gamesindustry.biz
In a new interview, SplashDamage CEO Paul Wedgwood claims that many UK development studios are using their employees until they're completely burned out, start hating the gaming industry, and leave forever.
"If there's one thing we suffer from in the UK, it has been this continuous exploitation of game developer talent until we drive them into the ground and they become cynical and burned out and hate the industry."
As CEO of SplashDamage, he's not had it easy himself, trying to have confidence in the people he employs, but he says he's bettered his life and trying to do a lot better towards his employees now:
"I think that at Splash Damage we've always believed in paying people more than the industry in general, giving proper benefits and being respectful of work/life balance."

"I learned much more to trust the talent, the people that had great ideas, let them go and iterate on them, and ultimately their execution was so much more important than that silly idea that I had at the beginning."
Having visited SplashDamage myself and having spoken with him a few years ago (during development of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars) I've never felt he acted as a tyrannical dictator or that the studio ran on fear. On the other hand: that may have been an act altogether ;)
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