Oliver Teckert works as a Senior Production Expert at Hansoft with the primary role of helping game developers around the world leverage their Hansoft usage, taking their productivity to new levels. Oliver has been working with large-scale productions within the gaming industry for 6+ years. Prior to joining Hansoft, Oliver was a Producer at Silicon Knights where he worked on AAA-games, internal prototypes and proprietary tool development while simultaneously completing his MBA. Oliver holds a Bachelors of Computer Science and a Masters of Business Administration
Visiting developers around the world often reminds me of the giant fustercluck that can result when you lack a stakeholder that is also the stickholder.
Valve has recently announced their intention to enter the next console war with the Steam Box, a new custom PC designed to go head-to-head with next-gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony.
From the developer side: Do you really want to continue making AAA games knowing that the risks are so high and failure means layoffs and further job uncertainty There is a certain point where job security becomes more important to a developer than working on a huge title they love. ...
I would say a smaller organization has an easier time assembling teams that are high achieving. Typically flat studios with an Agile philosophy try to pursue this kind of structure to some effect, but ultimately face serious challenges when they have to scale up. A lot of the issues you ...
All of a sudden the bean counters in publishing could realize that they can make more money and incur less risk by releasing on the Steam Box since it would cover console PC. There could be a substantial business case for switching the primary development platform to Steam. r n ...
