Sacrificing Sleep To Raise The Dead With Jesse Snyder

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🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Jesse Snyder, creative director at NantG and formerly the creator of Call of Duty's Zombies mode, sat down with Jason and Maddy at GDC 2019 to tell the real story of how the zombies came to life. The mode began as a late-night passion project that actually got a lot of internal pushback, and eventually, Snyder realized he'd rather make "crazy" games than super-realistic ones. After that, we talked to Andrew Maximov about Promethean AI, a piece of software aimed at helping artists create in-game universes more easily. If it works the way that Maximov says, this AI tech will be like a (robot) junior artist who does the boring, fiddly grunt work so that video game artists can focus their creative attention on grander things. 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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0:52.4	Hello and welcome to Kataku Split Screen's coverage from GDC 2019.
0:57.0	My name is Jason Schreier and I'm joined by Maddie Myers.
0:59.6	Hello, it's me.
1:00.7	And today, right now we are here with Jesse Snyder, who currently works for Nantz G.
1:07.1	Longtime game developer was once at Infinity Ward and 343 where he worked on such little-known
1:13.9	franchises as Halo and Call of Duty. Just no biggie. You made heard of them. I've heard of them. A couple
1:19.6	people might have heard of them. A few people have. Hello, Jesse. Thank you so much for coming on the show.
1:24.4	Yeah. Oh, thanks. Thanks for having me. It's awesome. Welcome, uh, welcome to Kataka's
1:27.8	how is your GDC going? Oh, it's great. Yeah. So it's awesome. You know, GDC is always,
1:32.4	it's just like catching up with people and seeing what kind of new stuff is coming out. And it's just
1:36.4	always a great experience. You came in wrapping your Google Stavia notebook. I keep saying Stavia. Stavia. It's like Stadium, I think, is how you remember it. Stadium, right. Except I'm not going to remember that. Yes, it's just stadia. I liked it better
1:48.7	when is Project Yeti. It should just be a Google Yeti notebook. So, Jesse, so first of all,
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