Is there crunch time in Fen Games LLC?

[cobra]

With all the commotion of crunch in the video game industry, does @Fenoxo or @Savin mandate mandatory crunch periods to get game updates released on time? I'm guessing probably not but then again you never know. By "crunch" I mean the point at which the team is thought to be failing to achieve milestones needed to launch a game on schedule.

 

[Wsan]

Both Fen and Savin have a first-hand understanding of what it takes to write for the game and understand that crunch time would be completely pointless. It's far more common that writers dip under the maximum hours for a given period than go over it because consistently writing well is hard and sometimes you're just not feeling it.
One of the key aspects of crunch is that the gamedev industry has a literally infinite mass of gullible kids who "want to make video games" that they can turn to and bolster their ranks with when their senior writers/devs/animators/etc. inevitably get burned out after 3 years of being shit on. Writers -- and especially good ones -- are a rare commodity in this community. Totally opposite situations.

 

[Savin]

do Fenoxo or Savin mandate mandatory crunch periods to get game updates released on time?

Not for my staff, no, and Fen's never asked it of any of us.

When CoC2 stuff pushes up against my own arbitrarily-imposed deadlines I do crunch myself for a few days but I'd never ask that of my staff.

 

[cobra]

When CoC2 stuff pushes up against my own arbitrarily-imposed deadlines I do crunch myself for a few days but I'd never ask that of my staff.

No wonder your health sucks.

 

[Savin]

 

[Evil]

Its okay Savin, we'll just take you round the back of the old shed, where we took Old Yeller.




Old Yeller being the name of the relaxation sex machine. Boy, does that thing yell. Bulky too.