Team Bondi Under Investigation by IGDA
First it was over 100 people claiming they’d been left out of the ending credits for Rockstar Games and Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire. Now a list of accusations as to unfair crunch-time working conditions at the Australian studio have been filed, and the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is looking into the matter.
Included among the list of complaints — some of which have been substantiated while others have yet to be — are 60-110 hour workweeks, waves of employee walkouts and firings, “aggressive” and abusive management styles, and budget crunches.
Most of the complaints center specifically around Brendan McNamara, the founder of Team Bondi as well as the writer and director of L.A. Noire.
Chair of the IGDA Board of Directors, Brian Robbins, stated that these allegations, “if true, are absolutely unacceptable and harmful to the individuals involved, the final product, and the industry as a whole.”
So did you or did you not intentionally leave people out?
We didn’t!
*doubt*
YES YOU DID AND YOU KILLED ALL THEIR FAMILY. SPILL IT YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT
The investigation is taking longer because the Bondi employees left are making dinging noises and texting the investigator’s phone all the time, creating Red Herring and forcing them to rotate random cups and decorations.
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“So did you leave people out of the credits?” spoke the IGDA, clamly, his pen touching the paper, ready to make his notes, knowing that a missed word could be the undoing of his case. The tension was high.
“Naw, man, I’m jus’ doin’ me job, see? Ev’ry body who’s worth their cents got some cred, right?” MacNamara’s eyes strayed, his hands clenching and Detective Inspector IGDA could tell there was something amiss immediately.
Something didn’t quite add up; Hundreds of employees don’t just get in an uproar independantly by sheer coincidence. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire thought MacNamara, his trusty intuition leading him by the hand and right now I could make Beef Jerky off of this guy!
Consulting his notes, IGDA considered the possibility that there was a clerical error, these things happen and quick apology and a bit of work could patch things up and right back where they should be but it was too aggregious an error to beleive. He thought also of the eveidence of a personal vendetta, it was true that he had reports of shouting within the offices and there were traces of a scuffle in his office, but that didn’t add up either, again, the scope was simply too big.
He decided that a straight up Lie wasn’t MacNamara’s style and responded simply.
“You’re a patsy for the Jews, aren’t you”