Businesses playing games

There is an excellent My Turn article over at Game Daily Biz, which discusses the making of time for playing games for businesses who work in the games industry. It also discusses the advantages of hiring professionals who also have a passion for games.

"There are far too many people out there treating this as just another industry, a place to go to work at and come home from. I believe if we made a conscious effort to look for those that played games regularly we would see cost benefits that would outweigh the price of the extended search."

"They did several independent productivity studies which showed a relaxed and happy work force was much more productive than one that was stressed out."

While I think that the majority of us would agree with what David Tractenberg says in principle, it's good to be reminded that we should see the importance of getting the people with passion involved in our development.

It brought to mind an animator who I once worked with who came over from the "traditional" animation industry. When his work was criticised for not being right, he said, "But it's only a game."