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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made | Jason Schreier
Developing video gameshero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey wrenches thrown into the works by corporate, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels reveals how bringing any game to completion is more than Sisypheanit's nothing short of miraculous. Taking some of the most popular, bestselling recent games, Schreier immerses readers in the hellfire of the development process, whether it's RPG studio Bioware's challenge to beat an impossible schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build Dragon Age: Inquisition; indie developer Eric Barone's single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG Stardew Valley from one man's vision into a multi-million-dollar franchise; or Bungie spinning out from their corporate overlords at Microsoft to create Destiny, a brand new universe that they hoped would become as iconic as Star Wars and Lord of the Ringseven as it nearly ripped their studio apart. Documenting the round-the-clock crunches, buggy-eyed burnout, and last-minute saves, Blood, Sweat, and Pixels is a journey through development helland ultimately a tribute to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to create the best games imaginable.
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Bailedbailed

I couldn't get through the technical jargon in the book. Got halfway through and had to stop.

For the rest of my review, visit my Vlog at:

https://youtube.com/shorts/fMLbhI1Wa3k?feature=share

Enjoy!

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Pickpick

June Stats:
21 books total
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Pages: 6‘885 (439 of Les Misérables!)
Points: 70 (4 from LM)
Hours: 26h35m combined/15h28m to finish all
I‘m struggling with Les Misérables but I‘m determined to finish it next month.

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Lauredhel
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Little Hollow Knight amigurumi just needs eyes now

llwheeler So cute! 6y
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The_Literary_Jedi
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1: board, tabletop, video, card
2: F-Zero (#tbvg Super Nintendo); Baldur‘s Gate (#tbvg Nintendo Game Cube); Mario Bros.; Mortal Kombat
3: Tetris
4: uhhhh...who games?!?!
@wanderinglynn #hellothursday #gamers #videogames

wanderinglynn Tetris! 👍🏻 Thanks for playing! 😀 6y
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WanderingBookaneer
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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post 2! Recently released. Schrier takes us behind the scenes to show how video games get developed, whether by a 600-person team or a solitary genius. Artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, ever-shifting market demands, and corporate policies, make for a gargantuan undertaking. You'll meet masters of the craft and learn about some major blockbuster games. Sounds good to me! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

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