The head of the New Blood Interactive company, Dave Oshry, spoke quite harshly about the situation in game development: if you are a beginner, you should have started 10 years ago. Accordingly, it is better to find a “real job and become a plumber.”
He told about this in an interview with PC Gamer.
The studio New Blood Interactive is known for the shooters Dusk and Ultrakill. As of August 2022, New Blood had 25 employees.
According to Dave Oshry, “the magic is gone” and developers from big studios can no longer enjoy games: you have to constantly report to someone who in turn reports to someone else and so on.
“People often ask me, ‘Dave, if I want to get into gamedev, where do I start?’ And I say: No need. throw it away It should have started 5-10 years ago. Go to vocational school, find a real job. Become a plumber. People need them. You don’t want to be employee number 356772 who reports to someone who reports to someone who reports to someone who makes decisions. It sucks. The magic is gone. You won’t enjoy video games anymore if you work at a big game studio,” he said.
He explains the success of New Blood Interactive by the fact that they create these games for themselves, do not chase money and trends and do not report to anyone.
“Our motto is: ‘We hate money.’ We don’t actually hate money, money is great, but if we wanted money, we would have turned Dusk into a horror game with crafting and consumption elements,” he emphasized.
Dusk is a boomer shooter in the style of the 90s. The game uses a more modern control scheme and a more advanced physics engine compared to games of the time. The game received mostly high press reviews; reviewers called Dusk a “love letter” to old shooters, noting that it deserves attention not only as a stylization of games from a bygone era, but also as a modern and self-sufficient game.
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