Episode 29: 80-Hour Work Weeks

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4.6 • 849 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

When is "crunch" OK in the game industry? How can it be avoided? Veteran game producer Matthew Burns joins Kirk and Jason to talk about the human cost that goes into making video games. Also: The Division, Disgaea 5, NBA 2K16, and... a Dark Souls MMORPG? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Kataka's split screen.
0:09.4	It is April 21st.
0:11.9	I am your host, Jason Shire.
0:14.4	I'm joined by my co-host, Kirk Hamilton.
0:17.5	Hi, Kirk.
0:18.0	Hi, Jason.
0:18.6	How's it going?
0:19.7	It is good. And today we're going to start off with
0:22.8	stories about vomiting. Nice. The nice thing is we're not sick, but we're going to still talk about being sick.
0:28.6	We got a lot of nice emails and feedback about my vomiting story. So we're just going to keep that up.
0:34.4	We're going to have a vomit story of the week. I was really surprised at the positive feedback that we received about your vomiting
0:39.7	water story.
0:40.4	It was like more sick stories.
0:42.7	Today we are joined by a friend of the podcast.
0:46.5	He has been on the show before.
0:48.6	He is a veteran games industry person.
0:53.0	He was a producer at Activision, at Bungy, Microsoft, and he is currently a producer
1:00.2	at the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington, Matthew F. Burns. Hi, Matthew.
1:07.1	Hey, guys. How's it going? Pretty good. It's hot here in Seattle.
1:11.7	Is it?
1:12.1	Yeah.
1:12.5	Kirk is just talking about how hot it is.
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