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Do Game Designers Burn Out Like Rock Stars ?

Posted by Zonk on from the warren-spector-with-glam-rock-hair? dept.

Reader Ant wrote in to mention a Guardian Unlimited Gamesblog article which asks: Do Game Designers burn out like rock stars? From the article: "The games industry is getting on a bit now, and so are many of its key 'superstars'. You may not think it, given the proliferation of sequels and movie tie-ins that clog up the charts like that sickly white glue in the veins of heavy smokers, but this is a creative business. No matter how many people are involved in the process, there must be a spark of inspiration somewhere at its core. So what happens when the spark falters, or goes out?"

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  1. soon... by climbing_monkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The EA Syndrome" will soon be in our vocab

  2. But has Rockstar burned out? by tepples · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will there or won't there be a Grand Theft Auto 6 from Rockstar?

  3. I for one... by d_p · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...got fed up with all the sex and drugs that came with designing Combat Solitaire 4.5!

  4. More important question by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do they look like rock stars? No. More like 1980s rap stars. Who looks like rock stars then? Kernel hackers. OS hackers look like church music stars and hacker anthropologists look like movie stars. As you see, all of the hackers look like stars, but only kernel hackers look like rock stars, except those who look like sport stars. If you have any other "Ask Slashdot" questions, you know where to find me.

    --
    Sincerely,
    Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
    "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
  5. Re:Game designers aren't hardcore(with nick) by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 2, Funny
    What the hell's stopping you?

    I'll take the liverty to answer that question for him :

    "Reality"

  6. Re:Game designers aren't hardcore(with nick) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Crazy Jim,

    Good name, because you are crazy. I went to your website and your games are terrible. If you are world class, I must be galaxy class because I am so much better. My game idea is to make a online RTS FPS MMORPG. its called empires of pac-Craft!1!! It is so good. You control armies of pacmen that battle ACROSS TIME! Pacman is still a top selling game! I'm making it even better. alsoyou get Tetris-based inventory. If you cant make your stuff line up like tetris blocks you lose it. Ha ha ha. Awesome! It's for hardcore gamers, not girls or boys! Seriously, everyone talks about massives,, but no one has this great idea of mine. When you buy the game you are teamed up with some other player. Maybe the President of USA or an angry chinese kid. Whoi knows it doesn't matter. That is the only person you can play against so my game makes high scores and world peace because you get to know each other and differences and stuff. I don't know how to program yet, but I've written codes for big head mode and free lives in m$word so I just need some help. I'm looking for artists because the game will be in 2ds and 3ds and maybe 4ds if we have time. ha ha ha. seriously!!! It will hopefully come out on the PS3 because I should have the money to make it by then. My grandpa is going to die soon and hes rich! So um, yeah, Crazy Jim I'm gonna hire you to fire you when I'm rich. ha ha ha! seriously.