Game Developers Ditch YouTube Reality Show After Uncomfortable First Day of Filming
 

Game Developers Ditch YouTube Reality Show After Uncomfortable First Day of Filming
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Bring in well-established indie game developers. Add a lot of cameras and premise for a YouTube reality show. Then throw in serious product placement from Mountain Dew and stir up accusations of producers manipulating cast members to get reactions.

If all accounts are accurate, this is how potential reality show GAME_JAM ended production after only one day, as the 11 indie developers asked to participate left the set in anger. The show was a production of Maker Studios' subchannel Polaris, which focuses on games and gaming culture.

According to Jason Rosen, a journalist who does contract work for Polaris and writes about independent games, the reality show was originally pitched as something representing the spirit of the indie games community, but became "misguided" as more people and money got involved. Rosen was on the set and wrote about the whole experience on Indie Statik. Read more...

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