{"id":2743,"date":"2017-11-10T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T09:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2017-11-10T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T09:05:58","slug":"blood-sweat-and-pixels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"Blood, Sweat, and Pixels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nowadays, I’m reading a tiny HarperCollins book called “Blood, Sweat, and Pixels”<\/em>, written by Jason Schreier.<\/p>\n

It is a journey through ‘development hell’<\/strong><\/em> – a media industry jargon for a project that remains in development (often moving between different crews, scripts, or studios) without progressing to completion. In other words, ‘a never-ending project’<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, if you have ever wondered what it takes to be a video game developer, don’t<\/em> read this book! It must be the very last introductory document you should be referring to. – Just kidding! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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“If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there.” – (Psalm 139:8)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development. Ultimately, a tribute to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to create the best games imaginable.<\/p>\n

Life is hard for video game developers. Very hard, indeed… Thanks to nice small touches and heavenly surprises, life is more bearable. This book is certainly one of them. Thank you Jason!<\/p>\n

Back to coding… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nowadays, I’m reading a tiny HarperCollins book called “Blood, Sweat, and Pixels”, written by Jason Schreier. It is a journey through ‘development hell’ – a media industry jargon for a project that remains in development (often moving between different crews, scripts, or studios) without progressing to completion. In other words, ‘a never-ending project’. So, if … Continue reading Blood, Sweat, and Pixels<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,102,7],"tags":[140,138,139],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","category-gamedev","tag-development-hell","tag-jason-schreier","tag-video-game-development-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}