Producing Games

C H A P T E R

TWENTY TWO

Staffing

Finding the right candidates for your team can be just as much of a challenge as it is a reward. These are your fellow soldiers who are down in the trenches with you during production, so not only do they need to have the right skills and experience for the job, they should also have like-minded personalities and demeanors for the overall dynamic of the team.

While most developers already have a staff and may only need to fill specific vacancies in the team, other developers mainly have a core team and that needs to be built up once a project is off the ground. For the sake of explaining how building the team works, we are going to take the scenario that you’re the producer at a new developer and have to build ...