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by jamie_ca
2830 days ago
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> Why are employers locating there? Also, proximity to talent. If all the other game developers are in the same area, it's easier to recruit employees with "come work for us, we're 2 blocks east" than it is with "come work for us, we'll pay relocation expenses". For developers in general, remote work is an option, but specifically for the highly-collaborative creative work that goes on in game dev (and especially the genre Telltale was running) a remote culture is a _lot_ harder to get right. |
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About 50% of the people I meet moved here from somewhere else. It's easy to recruit people with "Come work for us. We can't give you more money, but we can offer more purchasing power, which is better. The homes within a 15 minute drive of the office--even at rush hour--are less than $1500/month."
For their story-heavy games, it seems like Telltale might have done okay with a location near the Georgia film industry, especially with the Walking Dead television show operating out of Riverwood Studios in Senoia, south of Atlanta.