Dan Teasdale, who used to be a senior designer over at Harmonix’s Rock Band outfit, has quit the company to go and work for Twisted Pixel. “I came to the realisation recently that my career has been driven by a secret achievement grind, hidden relatively successfully by the fun of making games,” Teasdale said on his blog.

“I craved the hit of being hands on. It’s 100 per cent of your job as a staff designer, but as I became a senior and then a lead on AAA titles with 200+ people on them, the ability to chart the vision and the direction of a title starts to encroach how much time you can spend tweaking the details personally.” He just finished up on Rock Band 3, and is now working on something big over at Twisted Pixel.