Defense Against the Dark Arts: Budgets and Budget Reporting

In this 2015 GDC talk, Bungie's Paul Vosper presents quick prototyping techniques for animation systems, which have traditionally been one of the most complex areas to author.

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[numgun]

The thing that scares me the most is that the designers and content creators dont have the mindset to take into account all these success-critical things when they're making their design/art decisions.

Thats just a messed up and really reveals to me why most AAA games are horrible.

[diegoantoniorosariopalomin]

Here before extra credits or some of the people they managed to brainwash, say that smart budgeting isn't worth pursuing, because it can never be 100% efficient