With the gaming industry steadily growing every year, the monolithic AAA gaming companies have become virtually untouchable. Despite the strong AA and indie scenes, it still feels like a competition to see who can get picked up by a massive publisher or whose work will reach the AAA level.
For many developers, hitting AAA-level employment is the ultimate goal, but Chris Kaleiki, a former World Of Warcraft PvP and class designer who is now leading the brand new Notorious Studios, states that he and his coworkers see things a little differently.
With constant burnout and game releases bearing more and more effort, often taking years to barely reach early access, the job of AAA developer is more stressful than ever. In a recent interview with Gamesradar+, Chris Kaleiki explained how his smaller team has a new, profound outlook on AAA development.
He discussed the growing divide between indies and AAA titles and how his team of former AAA developers are happy to be at their current AA-budget jobs and leave the massive scale game industry behind them.
Kaleiki’s new gaming studio, Notorious Studios, is already toting its upcoming PvPvE extraction fantasy title, Legacy: Steel and Sorcery. Coming from...
