How the toxic working culture at Telltale Games, known for narrative-based video game adaptations of popular franchises, drove away the studio's best developers
not just gameplay mechanics, but tone, the types of characters we chose to use — to his taste. This was one of the biggest issues with him as a CEO: he was pretty convinced that his taste was everyone's taste.” http://twitter.com/... Thad / @codemonkey_uk : Rapid hiring following success leading to collapse of studio productivity and crunch ending in failure. Gamedev history repeating. http://twitter.com/... @megan_nicolett : I spent the last several months digging into problems at Telltale that kept the company from growing beyond its stale formula and drove its loss of talent http://www.theverge.com/... Emily Hayes / @emercis : “The thing that broke my heart the most was seeing new team members that were just so gung-ho and optimistic and excited to be at Telltale get overused and abused because they did not feel comfortable drawing the line in the sand to say, ‘This is my limit.’” http://twitter.com/...