The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can be more
fraught with challenges and complex than the games themselves often seeming like an endless
maze or a bottomless abyss. In Blood Sweat and Pixels Jason Schreier takes readers on a
fascinating odyssey behind the scenes of video game development where the creator may be a
team of six hundred overworked underdogs or a solitary geek genius. Exploring the artistic
challenges technical impossibilities marketplace demands and Donkey Kong?sized monkey
wrenches thrown into the works by corporate Blood Sweat and Pixels reveals how bringing any
game to completion is more than Sisyphean?it's nothing short of miraculous. Examining some of
the bestselling games and most infamous failures Schreier immerses readers in the hellfire of
the development process whether it's RPG studio BioWare's challenge to beat an impossible
schedule and overcome countless technical nightmares to build Dragon Age: Inquisition indie
developer Eric Barone's single-handed efforts to grow country-life RPG Stardew Valley from one
man's vision into a multimillion-dollar franchise or Bungie employees spinning out from their
corporate overlords at Microsoft to create Destiny a brand-new universe that they hoped would
become as iconic as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings?even as it nearly ripped their studio
apart. Blood Sweat and Pixels is a journey through development hell?and ultimately a tribute
to the dedicated diehards and unsung heroes who scale mountains of obstacles in their quests to
create the best games imaginable.
