Games We Envision: Rhetorics of Potentiality in Open Video Game Development Projects

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Thominet
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development

scholarly journals The perils of project-based work: Attempting resistance to extreme work practices in video game development

Organization ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Peticca-Harris ◽  
Johanna Weststar ◽  
Steve McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
Game Developers

This article examines two blogs written by the spouses of game developers about extreme and exploitative working conditions in the video game industry and the associated reader comments. The wives of these video game developers and members of the game community decry these working conditions and challenge dominant ideologies about making games. This article contributes to the work intensification literature by challenging the belief that long hours are necessary and inevitable to make successful games, discussing the negative toll of extreme work on workers and their families, and by highlighting that the project-based structure of game development both creates extreme work conditions and inhibits resistance. It considers how extreme work practices are legitimized through neo-normative control mechanisms made possible through project-based work structures and the perceived imperative of a race or ‘crunch’ to meet project deadlines. The findings show that neo-normative control mechanisms create an insularity within project teams and can make it difficult for workers to resist their own extreme working conditions, and at times to even understand them as extreme.

“All bets are off”: Flexible engagement with music-listening technologies by autistic adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 030573562097103
Author(s):  
Michael Matsuno ◽  
Deon Auzenne ◽  
Leanne Chukoskie
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
New Music ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Personal Taste ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development ◽  
Autistic Adults

This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore daily experiences with music among a convenience sample of 12 autistic adults interning at a video game development lab. Our analysis indicates that music technologies enabled autistic individuals to explore new music and to engage reflexively with personal taste and self-curation. We also show that participants used music to accompany a range of cognitive and emotional tasks. These findings are consistent with broader sociological literature on music-listening habits of typically developing adults and indicate that autistic adults use music to meet their personal needs. Our cohort also described expressly creative and proactive engagement with music, suggesting that habits with music may differ among unique sub-populations of autistic individuals.

scholarly journals Video Game Development in a Rush: A Survey of the Global Game Jam Participants

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Borg ◽  
Vahid Garousi ◽  
Anas Mahmoud ◽  
Thomas Olsson ◽  
Oskar Stalberg
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Global Game ◽  
Video Game Development

Phronesis and Creativity: Knowledge Work in Video Game Development

2006 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 060912022707002-??? ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Zackariasson ◽  
Alexander Styhre ◽  
Timothy L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Video Game Development
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