Developers tell Wired that Google wanted to make games with the goal of highlighting Stadia itself, but didn’t start even hiring until Stadia was months away from launch.
– One developer within Google Stadia discusses the tech giant’s struggling steps into the game industry.
Google’s foray in game development was short lived, despite the best hopes of the 150 game developers Google hired on to power its internal push into first-party development.
Several developers that joined up with Stadia Games and Entertainment described what that brief focus on game development was like from the inside in a recent story from Wired, tracing the avoidable obstacles and red flags that plagued Google’s too-little-too-late attempt at getting into the business of games.