Larian said that the development of Bode Gate 3 often requires overtime

At the recent Digital Dragons conference held in Poland, Swen Vincke, the founder and CEO of Larian Studio, held a remarkable Q&A activity. When asked about the team's development expect Vincke candidly shared the story behind whether he had ever worked overtime in "Bode's Gate 3".

Vincke first clarified that the team did not "excessively" work overtime, and the overtime situation in the development process of Bode's Gate 3 has been reduced compared with the past. However, he also said frankly: "Sometimes we really need to work overtime." He explained that this kind of overtime is not due to the normal work pressure, but because the project encountered some unexpected challenges and circumstances.

"When you try to complete such a huge and complex project, there will always be some unexpected events." Vincke further elaborated, "these unknown challenges require us to invest more time and energy to deal with, so overtime is inevitable."

However, Vincke also stressed that Larian would give corresponding overtime pay as compensation to any employee who had to work overtime. He proudly said that this was not common in many other studios, but Larian always put the welfare of employees first.

Vincke also revealed that although it is necessary to work overtime sometimes, this situation is not common in Larian. He said that teams usually try to avoid working on weekends or after 8 p.m. Only in the case of "very, very few", in order to respond to urgent project needs or solve sudden technical problems, employees need to work in these hours.

Through these words, we can see the challenges and difficulties that Larian faced when developing Bode Gate 3, and how they faced these challenges with a positive attitude. At the same time, it also gave us a deeper understanding of Larian's team.