Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

| 4.47 | 10,196 ratings and reviews

Recommended by Aaron Greenberg, Cliff Bleszinski, Anoop Anthony, and 3 others. See all reviews

Ranked #2 in Video Games, Ranked #4 in Game Development — see more rankings.

Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more harrowing and complex than the games themselves, often seeming like an endless maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, Jason Schreier takes readers on a fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development, where the creator may be a team of 600 overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic challenges, technical impossibilities, marketplace demands, and Donkey Kong-sized monkey... more
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Aaron Greenberg @vickyfloresn @kingdiarmuid Great book! (Source)

Cliff Bleszinski @dizcrowell Book is great. @jasonschreier (Source)

Anoop Anthony A journalistic masterpiece about the grueling production journeys of some of today's most successful video games. Having worked in video game development for about three years, I know that making video games is one of the hardest jobs in the world. Video games are fun when you play them, but creating AAA titles involves long hard hours, vast budgets, and herculean team efforts. Video game production brings together disparate creative disciplines like no other industry — Coding, AI, Graphics, Music, Sound, Storytelling & Narrative. (Source)

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