It also stymies career growth by siloing outsource employees away from the collaborative soup.

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for every problem you can think of in game dev at least 2 or 3 incredible next gen solutions have withered on the vine and died bc some 2000 person studio bet the farm on a Concord and lost. if the game industry's trade groups weren't such a shambles, facilitating standard tools would be their job

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that is how production works in p much every other media industry. keeping massive in house workforces to homegrow software/toolchain stuff is a big part of how we ended up in this megafauna dieoff. anybody w industry exp has a story of how this model led to massive squandering of incredible tech.

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this is apparently a controversial take but: smaller co-dev oriented studios are the only viable path forward for AA-tier games and many below. this does not and should not mean "1 studio that gets credit and a dozen sweatshops". but studios w/ production specializations collaborating game-by-game

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xNormal has an object to tangent space converter that literally never fails unless YOU fuck up All-time champion software

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