Devs - I'd like to hear your tales of Crunch please

[Jeff McBiscuit]

For my MSc dissertation I'd like to hear you tales - good or bad - of crunches you've experienced. All completely anonymous, I'd just like to hear of circumstances surrounding the crunch; how it happened, duration, any similarities to other projects, how it could have been avoided etc.
Any information you can give me would be extremely useful!
Please feel free to contact me by email:
b.worrall (at) warwick (dot) ac (dot) uk
or post here if you have any questions.
Thanks!

[Alex Bakke]

*Poster is named McBiscuit*

*Looking for crunch*

Into snuff, are you? Dirty thing.

[Jeff McBiscuit]

Curses! Thought this was an actual response! xD

[pakoito]

Have you tried contacting Penny Arcade or Scott Kurtz? They run a webcomic/blog about this stuff: http://trenchescomic.com/

[Alex Bakke]

Curses! Thought this was an actual response! xD

I did consider that, sorry! I thought it would be a bump anyway, seeing as the topic was near the bottom of the page.

[Jeff McBiscuit]

Then thankyou kindly sir :)

[Spengbab]

The Trenches webcomic is more about the general horrible abuse of employees in the American game industry, usually QA testers.

I think you'll find TheDailyWTF (http://thedailywtf.com) more useful

[Jeff McBiscuit]

Have you tried contacting Penny Arcade or Scott Kurtz? They run a webcomic/blog about this stuff: http://trenchescomic.com/

Man, that is an excellent link, thankyou very much!

[Jeff McBiscuit]

The Trenches webcomic is more about the general horrible abuse of employees in the American game industry, usually QA testers.

I think you'll find TheDailyWTF (http://thedailywtf.com) more useful

Those tales do contain valuable nuggets of info though. And thanks for your link too man, very helpful :)