FIrst post: topic and overal purpose of the blog

This blog and all subsequent posts will be related to the current trend of overblown modern video game budgets. As I stated in the description, the main purpose of this blog will be to serve as a sort of archive or journal for my research. Specifically, to document my findings about the topic and so forth. With that said, I will end this first post with an explanation as to how I first settled on the topic:

From the start, I knew that I wanted to talk about how games were made from the beginning. Throughout my time in the class however, I started narrowing down the specifics of what I wanted to talk about with this topic. I decided to talk specifically about the causes behind the recent industry trend of project budgets being overly inflated and the consequences this has on the industry as a whole. Video games are an important part of my life. This topic and the current direction in which the industry as a whole is headed is one, I would like to see corrected.