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Spider-Man, Alan Wake, Ridiculous Fishing devs speak up in support of consultancy studio Sweet Baby Inc (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 8 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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During a game's development, narrative consultants will be hired by studios to help with fleshing out or tweaking narrative elements, Kenney said. "Narrative consultants do not get final say," Kenney reiterated. "It doesn't get into the game if we [as the developer] don't approve it.

"They consult. They do research, pitch ideas, give feedback, and maybe even write scripts. But none of that gets into the game unless the core dev team agrees with it. I'm going to keep saying that, because it's key. Sweet Baby is not, nor is any consulting group, coming in to wreck games. They're helping smooth out plots and deepen characters. They ease the burden on the core narrative team. They're additive in every way."

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[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

I don’t get hate towards Sweet Baby Inc. Sure they consulted on some bad games but that is on the developers, not on them. They also consulted on Miles Morales and I loved the story in that game, even more than the story of 2018 game. Sweet Baby don’t deserve the hate.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

You don't get it, they're responsible for anything woke in all of these games, and clearly are responsible for the failure of Suicide Squad, due to all the wokeness that they orchestrated into every game they work on, because obviously they are a tool of the VCs that fund these games and therefore despite being a company with only double digits employees they control the entire games industry!

I wish I was being sarcastic, this is literally the conspiracy theory that has all this hate swirling around this absolutely tiny dev company that specialises in subcontract writing tasks, dictated by the main dev....

I'll edit this comment when I find the article that goes over all the finer points.

Edit: Found the article I was looking for, looked at a few others, but this one was the first one I read and I found it to be the most clear.

Edit 2: Just wanted to be clear, this is not my personal opinion of Sweet Baby, I'm trying to explain the current conspiracy theory that has everyone up in arms against this tiny studio.

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