{"id":632,"date":"2011-07-28T10:54:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T10:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2011-07-28T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T10:56:49","slug":"crunch-is-avoidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/crunch-is-avoidable\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunch is avoidable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m putting off my blogging responsibility this week onto someone else: a great opinion piece from\u00a0Charles Randall of Ubisoft, rebutting entirely the piece by that moron\u00a0Michael Pachter which I won&#8217;t even dignify by linking to it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-gen.biz\/opinion\/opinion-crunch-avoidable\">Here&#8217;s Charles&#8217; piece<\/a>. Stand-out quote for me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Crunch\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0avoidable. But it requires a level of maturity and acceptance that the game industry sorely lacks. People argue that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always a period of crunch necessary at the end of a project. But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not true, either. If you are disciplined enough to accept deadlines and understand that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a point where you have to stop adding features, schedules can be planned with some lead time for debugging.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone who tells you crunch is unavoidable is a fool. It might be that the games being made just now are unprofitable without crunch, but that&#8217;s not a reason to crunch; that&#8217;s a reason to change the way we make games.<\/p>\n<p>On a similar note, you will find a couple of opinion pieces from me over on <a href=\"http:\/\/ilovecrunch.co.uk\/\">I &lt;3 Crunch<\/a>, a new blog set up specifically to raise awareness about articles on crunch, studios who are crunching their staff (and those which aren&#8217;t). I hope that by talking about this more we can put to rest this ridiculous notion that crunch is somehow acceptable or something we just have to live with. It&#8217;s the industry&#8217;s dirty secret, and the more we bring it out into the open, the better we will all be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m putting off my blogging responsibility this week onto someone else: a great opinion piece from\u00a0Charles Randall of Ubisoft, rebutting entirely the piece by that moron\u00a0Michael Pachter which I won&#8217;t even dignify by linking to it. Here&#8217;s Charles&#8217; piece. Stand-out quote for me: Crunch\u00a0is\u00a0avoidable. But it requires a level of maturity and acceptance that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[106,105],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg1JR-ac","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}