Get with the Program Nodwick All Games Release Dates Developers, freelance press and our staff voted on what we thought were the best games of all time. The miserable cloud of crunch mode hangs over the talented game designers of BioWare Corp. in Edmonton, Alberta. This is so people's loved ones remember who they are and so they can enjoy summer in Canada. It's a big thing for us.
Winter is pretty harsh.
It would be a shame to miss the warm season-both weeks of it. Crunch mode is widely considered the most stressful and demanding period of a game's development. Averaging about four months, crunch time turns normally outgoing teams into antisocial, highly focused, workaholics. An inexperienced game designer could break under such strains. But the BG2 team understands crunch mode.