It's a big change, though, and requires actively breaking old mindsets. They also tried to anticipate and counter problems more in planning, rather than ploughing ahead then sorting issues after they arose. Shorter meetings is an easy change, as well as questioning who exactly needs to be at a meeting. "I don't think we could have got to where we are today without it."īlackbird told the Washington Post more about the process, and how they learned to make better use of time.
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"When the trial was over it was obvious the four-day work week saved us," Hardspace lead producer Jessica Klyne said. Apparently, the shorter week really helped stave off burnout.
The Hardspace: Shipbreaker team were one of those who ran a trial, during a critical period of development with the added pressures of Covid and working from home. Making a four-day work week our new policy moving forwards was an absolute no-brainer." Nice that the makers of a game about a horrible megacorp who don't care, do. Productivity did NOT drop and literally everything else improved: quality, effectiveness, efficiency, morale, interpersonal relationships and so on. actuals, mental health surveys, verbal comments, interviews, and monitored the outcome closely.
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"So we did a four-day work week trial with multiple project teams and collected every bit of before and after data we could: code and content submits, task estimates vs. Even worse, it's a problem that can't be effectively treated, only prevented," Blackbird CEO Rob Cunningham said in their announcement. Burnout in our industry is real and a common problem. They are the most important asset to our studio and their mental health is the most important thing to them and therefore to us. They're also planning to offer "extreme work location flexibility", which sounds wikkid sikk. They say they gave it a go after asking staff for ideas to help keep people at the studio, and this idea proved popular.
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Homeworld 3 is also aiming to take full advantage of powerful modern hardware to render new ship designs and settings.The Canadian studio announced last week that following trials of the four-day week on two of their projects, they'll take the whole studio to four days in April.
We have got a lot more exciting details to share next year as we prepare for the launch of this massive next chapter."īlackbird Interactive added that Homeworld's classic strategic gameplay now operates at an even larger scale than ever before, with environments featuring new hazards such as hulking space derelicts called megaliths, the remains of an ancient civilization that cunning players can turn into ambush points. "We could not be more excited to debut the deepest look yet at gameplay with the incredible Homeworld community and the world at The Game Awards. "Homeworld 3 is the realization of the vision of what we set out to create in the Homeworld series, with modern technology allowing us to push beyond our wildest dreams of large-scale dynamic space combat packed with emotional sci-fi storytelling," Blackbird Interactive CEO-as well as Homeworld and Homeworld 2 art director-Rob Cunningham said in a press statement.
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