Would it be possible to make a segment about the scheduling, planning scheduling?asked by Elfwin
TL;DRA segment on scheduling isn't planned; instead, an older episode on how producers make schedules is still on the YouTube channel and is described as fairly accurate, though methods have changed a bit.
We actually did an episode, gosh, years ago. It's still on our YouTube. I believe the Friday show was called Happy Hour when we did it. So if you look on our YouTube channel, we actually did a whole hour with Eric Kieron Davis and, oh, I can't remember who else, where we went through how producers make schedules and plan for the development work. And it's the same process for just about everything. So you're asking specifically for ships, but it's the same information. It's changed a little bit. There's Agile and there's Waterfall and stuff like that. But for the most part, I think it's still fairly accurate, and it's a decent primer if you were curious. That's up on the YouTube channel. I got in a lot of trouble for doing a show with producers and how to make a schedule. I think there were only like 17 citizens that enjoyed it. They're like, why are you doing a show with producers? And I'm like, because they're essential to the development of any video game.
When you're in a meeting, producers are the comedians that keep it all together. They know how to run the meeting in a way that keeps everyone... There's nothing more boring than looking at schedules and stuff like that for artists, so they do a really good job of making it fun for us.