Hideo Kojima is hard at work on Death Stranding 2, but he doesn't know how much longer he can stand the grueling game development process: "It's incredibly tough"
"At this age, I c🍒an't help but think about how much longer I'll be able to stay 'creati🍎ve'"

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Death Stranding 2 seems to have entered the most widely loathed period in the game development industry – crunch, a period where designers work mercilessly long, thankless hours – and even game director 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hideo Kojima is feeling the weight of it.
"Ti💝red," Kojima recently , 𒊎alongside a melancholy photo of the night sky and a very gloomy frowning emoji.
. "On top of mixing and Japanese voice recording, there's an inevitable pile of other tasks: writing comments, explanations, essays, interviews, discussions, and non-game-related work. It's incredibly tough."Increasingly, developers have been crusading against the controversially demanding industry practice; in 2024, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dragon Age writer David Gaider said in 🅠a that, if crunch was ꧂truly a necessary part of making games, "then maybe the industry deserves to die."
Kojima didn't publicly express any such doubts about crunch time himself, and his studio, Kojima Productions, is no stranger to it – to complete the first Death Straꦐnding in time for its 2019 release.
But it seems that the practice is fueling some of Kojima's apprehensions about his ability to keep creati🐼ng. In a , 61-year-old Kojima said that "At this age, I ca♔n't help but think about how much longer I'll be able to stay 'creative.'"
"I want to ꦇkeep going for the rest of my life, but is it 10 more years? 20?" he con💙tinued. "Every day feels like I'm racing against the clock."
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