[casual_games] A little humor on a Friday

[Lennard Feddersen]

It sounds like this was a simple contract to perform a known service so 
the following doesn't completely apply.

That said...  I've done a lot of subcontracting in game development.  
I've worked crazy hours to hit deadlines and people made money because I 
and others did so.  In some cases there were hard technical problems to 
solve that simply couldn't be done in a guaranteed amount of time - I 
think in most of those cases I got lucky, especially early on before 
teams got huge, and things were delivered on time, games hit the shelves 
for Christmas, etc. etc..  That said, as teams have gotten huge, as 
there are many masters to be served (some of whom conflict and not 
always at the same time so that interim efforts get wasted)  and there 
many cogs who must supply their parts, it's not always nearly as simple 
as all that.

Geez, I'm getting wound up just thinking about this stuff.  Glad I've 
gone indie.

Peace,

Lennard Feddersen
CEO, Rusty Axe Games, Inc.
www.RustyAxe.com

Lennard at RustyAxe.com
P. 250-635-7623 F. 1-309-422-2466
3521 Dogwood, Terrace, BC, Canada, V8G-4Y7



Gabriel Gambetta wrote:

>        El vie, 05-05-2006 a las 14:05 -0300, Nicolás Vinacur escribió:
>        You chose your team for the project. There 
>        must be people that work faster, perhaps more expensive. The possiblity 
>        exist that they're working with their best intention but can't achieve your 
>        objectives because they simply don't qualify for your expectations.
>
>Offering your services to perform a task you know you're not qualified
>to perform in the available time isn't the best thing to do especially
>for a company that is trying to establish itself. 
>
>And I definitely wouldn't count doing that as "working with their best
>intention" - your customer may have hard deadlines to meet and he's
>counting on you. You don't know, so you must meet the deadlines no
>matter what. Entering a project knowing you won't be able to meet them
>is irresponsible to say the least.
>
>	--Gabriel
>
>
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