Most modern games have a lot of patches after release, so there is no problem in adding people in the credits after the fact.” “If it turns out that we forgot to mention someone in the credits, we always try to fix it with a patch. “At Saber, we never do it on some malicious intent, although human mistakes can happen from time to time,” Goranskaya said. Each company has its own policy regarding this issue. Nowadays, a studio with a great level of self-respect will not allow itself to be tarnished by a scandal like this,” he said.Īs Janna Goranskaya, Business Development Lead at Saber Interactive, pointed out, there are still no set of rules for mentioning developers in the credits in the modern games industry. “I believe that situations like this should be assessed considering the cultural level of a certain company, or even a single person (for example, its CEO), but not as a global industry trend. However, Kotov noted that this practice has almost disappeared from the games industry. In 2010, he composed music for Deep Black, but studio Biart didn’t include his name in the credits. “I see it as a pretty good compromise for those developers who did a small part of the work or left before some important milestone,” she noted.Ĭomposer and Principle Sound Design CEO Mikhail Kotov recalled a negative situation that happened at the beginning of his gamedev career. While she left the development early and wasn’t mentioned as a member of the concept team, she was credited in the Special Thanks section. She cited Halo Infinite as a positive example. “It depresses me, and I think that every outsourcing studio should fight for their employees to be mentioned in the credits,” Vetrova said. This problem is widespread among employees of outsourcing companies. Here are the key takeaways from the conversation.Īccording to freelance artist and former Sperasoft employee Tatiana Vetrova, she can count the number of projects she was credited in on the fingers of one hand. Our sister site spoke to three industry specialists on the matter in the wake of a situation around Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, when Frogwares forgot to include a few former developers in the credits and later promised to fix it with a patch.
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