I saw a tweet earlier about the work load for parents vs non-parents, and both sides arguing who should work harder etc, and you’re both missing the point.

If anyone ‘has’ to cover anyone, then something is seriously wrong with the workload to begin with.

‘Parents can’t do crunch time like non-parents’ SHOULD BE ‘why the fuck are any of us doing crunch? Who the fuck screwed up the production timeline in the first place?’

There are HUGE issues, in game particularly, with production time, and staff shortages. That’s the issue.

Proposal to change game dev office hours to school opening hours to promote better mental health, healthier relationships, and healthier staff.

I can imagine this would reduce burnout by a huge amount.

Some of you might be be interested in this thread from @The_Acumen

https://twitter.com/the_acumen/status/1275794962756636674?s=21 https://twitter.com/the_acumen/status/1275794962756636674