I shared the news earlier about the relatively high-profile Jonathan Cooper (Former Mass Effect/Uncharted animator, Writer of the GameAnim book) left Naughty Dog and how I felt that was a pretty big loss. In the back of my head I also thought it was strange. Any company obviously has turnover and people have times in their lives where they feel it is time to move on, but in today's tweets from the same person I feel it's a bit more obvious that this isn't some opportunistic venture to something better, or actually, maybe it just is.
And to be clear, I believe this corporate mandate against conflicts of interest is very, very common in this industry.
Chances are if you begin to corporately restrain your employees ability to create art in their spare time or run side-projects, that's when really good talent is driven away from the games industry.
And to be clear, I believe this corporate mandate against conflicts of interest is very, very common in this industry.
Chances are if you begin to corporately restrain your employees ability to create art in their spare time or run side-projects, that's when really good talent is driven away from the games industry.