Noeski
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« on: October 25, 2012, 05:24:00 AM » |
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Today the game I worked on for over a year just came out.
It's my first 3D game from a big name studio so I'm excited to see it on the store, excited to see my name in the credits. I download it, play through the tutorial and finally hit the settings button and fire up the credits . . .
Lead Programmer
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Programmers
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Wait a second.. I don't see my name? I must have missed it so I exit and start the credits over again.. nope it's not there. They snubbed me.
Now the problem is I quit this job about 6 months ago, so maybe it's their policy to only give credit to current employees? When I left, the game was just starting QA so I feel like I worked on the game to completion.. Yes, there were a few things polished up, but the actual GAME is just as I had left it.. I put in a year of my life on this damn thing so don't I deserve my name somewhere in the credits?
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2012, 05:27:09 AM » |
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Well, contact the com+any that made the game?
And what's the game, so we can start a holy crusade?
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Noeski
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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2012, 05:39:36 AM » |
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The game is Zombiewood. It's one of those good for nothing, abhorrent, scum-of-the-earth freemium games, but god dammit I'm still proud of the technical work I did! |
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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2012, 06:23:36 AM » |
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I think I read something about that (on tigsource or somewhere else...?) that it was customary in big studios to remove one's name after leaving the company. As strange as it is.
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Chris Pavia
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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2012, 06:30:05 AM » |
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The bigger studios I've worked at are the same, you only get your name in the credits if you were still employed there when the game shipped.
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« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2012, 07:08:25 AM » |
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Companies are evil.  |
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Noeski
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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2012, 07:17:57 AM » |
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The bigger studios I've worked at are the same, you only get your name in the credits if you were still employed there when the game shipped.
What a terrible practice.. BUT I wouldn't expect anything more from the industry. Oh well. |
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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2012, 11:39:00 AM » |
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That's a shame, sorry to hear it.
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deathtotheweird
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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2012, 11:48:47 AM » |
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no one reads credits except the people on them anyways
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2012, 12:02:04 PM » |
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no one reads credits except the people on them anyways
Well then I guess as the target audience for the credits OP has a right to complain.  |
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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2012, 12:21:15 PM » |
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no one reads credits except the people on them anyways
Just to provide a counterexample, I read credits fairly often, usually in the interest of either seeing the name of someone I know, or finding out how many people worked on something. Not everyone finds them useless or uninteresting. |
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deathtotheweird
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2012, 12:33:33 PM » |
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like I said. no one.
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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2012, 02:56:33 PM » |
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thats poopies, well, i guess you got paid for it. time to go indie and put your name on every single screen in the game.
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« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2012, 03:40:18 PM » |
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That is pretty retarded how this happens, but why wouldn't you stay till the end anyway? At least in this case it was only an iphone game anyway, and not something cool like Halo 4.
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« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2012, 03:47:17 PM » |
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i met the directors of major motion picture "paranorman" and read the credits intently and asked them about specific people who did wallah
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Superb Joe
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« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2012, 03:51:01 PM » |
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as for video games? those people are no more than insects, rats, or perhaps a small dog at best. for sure, video game programmers are lower than level 10.
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SirNiko
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« Reply #16 on: October 25, 2012, 03:54:39 PM » |
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You could always pull the same trick as Atari programmers in the 80s - hide your initials in the game as an easter egg before you leave.
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« Reply #17 on: October 25, 2012, 03:58:12 PM » |
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It's one of those good for nothing, abhorrent, scum-of-the-earth freemium games
when you go to italy, you don't complain about the pasta eh |
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Superb Joe
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« Reply #18 on: October 25, 2012, 04:10:34 PM » |
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You could always pull the same trick as Atari programmers in the 80s - hide your initials in the game as an easter egg before you leave.
you could consider also drawing a massive hairy cartoon dick in the men's bathroom |
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SirNiko
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« Reply #19 on: October 25, 2012, 04:14:37 PM » |
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Genitals are the initials of the tell-all show-all society of the 21st century.
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