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"Praise be to the bureaucrats." Player Investment; Crunch Culture
Two of your nice hosts are prepping to go to Junction Jam (which already happened, you'll hear about it soon!), but before then the discussion goes over the why players can and should be invested in your game, and how to push back against crunch in the workplace.
Junction Jam
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Global Game Jam
0:06:57
Player Investment
'Cauldron of bats' and other great collective nouns
Emma Cownley
Jot Jot Boom
0:38:05
Crunch Culture
Occupational Burnout in Games 2024: Causes, Impact, and Solutions
Lis Moberly, Tim Stobo
Game Developer Conference
The skinny
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