Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker

Published on January 01, 0001

Electronic Arts’ recent attempt to “focus” pg123 Spore developer Maxis—which was a nicer way of saying some people got laid off—includes one of pg123

its more rant-ready folks, Chris Hecker, a Technology Fellow at the company. Remember him?(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); https://kotaku.com/maxis-hit-with-job-cuts-ea-confirms-5346384 If not, he’s probably best known—in addition to his contributions to Spore—for one of his Game Developers Conference talks, in which he described the Wii as “a piece of shit” and slammed Nintendo for its hardware design choices. He later apologized for those remarks. http://kotaku.com/gaming/gdc07/gdc07-hecker-kicks-screams-rants-242443.php He may also be recognized from his rant Do Your Job Well, Please, an editorial delivered at this year’s GDC on video game journalism. By Hecker’s estimate, the cutbacks at Maxis numbered 24 (he thinks). He estimates in his personal list of contributions to Spore that some 80 people were working on the game as h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ development wrapped up. Hecker announced

on his personal site his follow up project, an indie game called SpyParty, which he describes as “a very different multiplayer espionage game” that โค้ดเครดิตฟรีสมาชิกใหม่ล่าสุด apparently offers a level of excitement on par with ski jumping away from massive

explosions. Elvis Has Left The Building [Chris Hecker’s Website]

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Maxis Layoffs Include Outspoken Spore Dev Chris Hecker

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