Giving Credit Where It's Due

My Kotaku feature this month highlights a problem I hear of countless times in my conversations with game developers: The industry's problematic crediting practices. At a glance it may seem like an inside-baseball issue -- what difference does a game's credits list make to your experience as a player? -- but I hoped to try to illustrate the psychological and emotional impact these issues have on developers, surely with far-reaching implications on their investment in their work, in the sincerity and artistic generosity of their contributions, and in the future of games as a professional industry for creative people.

Give it a read if you have a chance. Being a game developer is grueling work and I don't envy it.

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