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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

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Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

By: Jason Schreier
Narrated by: Ray Chase
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An insightful, clear and well-paced book. It puts a human face on game development. Having enjoyed Schreier's work on Kotaku, I had a feeling it would be solid, but it was better than expected The attention to detail was particularly pleasing.

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For anyone interested in video games, this is essential reading! Jason Schreier does a fantastic job collecting stories of how game devs actually make a game, and how lucky we are that this art form exists.
Having each chapter focus on a single game makes the book easy to digest, and they way it is written is very easy to follow.
I highly recommend this book. Please read it!!

Essential reading for gamers

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Learning what it can take to make a game was fasinating, loved the amount of detail in the book can't wait for the second installment.

wish Jason read it himself.

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As a corporate software developer is was extremely interesting to hear the same issues scheduling, unclear management and shifting priorities extend to other like companies.

Structuring each chapter as a separate game provided a natural break point.

Very interesting collection of developer interviews

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Was hoping there'd be more small scale stories but a worthwhile listen regardless. Narration was appropriate and competent.

Fascinating Throughout

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