[casual_games] Crediting the Departed

[Tom Hubina]

Doesn't matter to me if the guy was fired, killed in a car crash, or quit.
My choice when giving credits simply comes to relative contribution. I don't
want to give a guy who barely touched the game the same level of credit as
someone who was there for the entire project a wrote a ton of code just
because their job description is/was the same.

If someone did so little as to have zero impact, then I don't mind leaving
them off. If someone did a bit of stuff, but certainly not the same level as
the "main guys" I would probably give them a credit like, "Additional
Programming" or something. That implies that yeah, they did some stuff on
the project, but they weren't one of the primary guys. The primary guys
would get "Lead Programmer", "Programmer", etc. Similar titles exist for
other disciplines of course, but the whole idea is to credit everyone that
contributed but use the title to show what the relative level of
contribution was.

Tom



> -----Original Message-----

> From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org 

> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Andy Megowan

> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:03 PM

> To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Crediting the Departed

> 

> I would like to thank everyone who has responded so far.  

> Common sense tells most of us to acknowledge the 

> contributions of our peers to a product, even when they are 

> not there at the end.  This makes sense when we're talking 

> about employee loyalty to a company.

> 

> Does the choice become less clear when the contributor was terminated?

> 

> --Andy

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org

> [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Kirby, 

> Neil A (Neil)

> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:09 AM

> To: casual_games at igda.org

> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Crediting the Departed

> 

> I work for a very well established Research and Development 

> shop that has given the world things like the transistor, 

> Unix, and 911, just to name three.  We take intellectual 

> property *very* seriously.  On a personal level, it's how we 

> pay for our kids' college educations.  On a corporate level 

> we do our level best every day to be the unfair advantage 

> that the other guy doesn't have.

> 

> All of that IP walks out the door *every day*.  In the heads 

> of people like me.  Our more enlightened mangers know this.  

> One of them once said, "It's my job to make sure that it all 

> walks back in the door the next morning."  

> 

> In the game industry, credits are one of the tools managers 

> can use to help insure that all of their talent keeps walking 

> back in the door every morning.  It doesn't cause head 

> hunting, it prevents it.  It's like letting your people go to 

> GDC.  Any company that won't let you go to GDC is telling you 

> that they *know* that they can't compete and you really could 

> do better elsewhere.  Better companies are more along the 

> lines of, "You can go to GDC as long as you come back."  

> Enlightenment doesn't cost, it pays.

> 

> Credits are so cheap that they round off to being free to 

> give.  But they have high value to the people who get their 

> names in pixels.  Any manager that ignores a low cost / high 

> value tool is an incompetent fool who has trouble computing 

> basic margin.

> 

> ---

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> 

> 

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