During a game’s development, narrative consultants will be hired by studios to help with fleshing out or tweaking narrative elements, Kenney said. “Narrative consultants do not get final say,” Kenney reiterated. "It doesn’t get into the game if we [as the developer] don’t approve it.

“They consult. They do research, pitch ideas, give feedback, and maybe even write scripts. But none of that gets into the game unless the core dev team agrees with it. I’m going to keep saying that, because it’s key. Sweet Baby is not, nor is any consulting group, coming in to wreck games. They’re helping smooth out plots and deepen characters. They ease the burden on the core narrative team. They’re additive in every way.”

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    You don’t get it, they’re responsible for anything woke in all of these games, and clearly are responsible for the failure of Suicide Squad, due to all the wokeness that they orchestrated into every game they work on, because obviously they are a tool of the VCs that fund these games and therefore despite being a company with only double digits employees they control the entire games industry!

    I wish I was being sarcastic, this is literally the conspiracy theory that has all this hate swirling around this absolutely tiny dev company that specialises in subcontract writing tasks, dictated by the main dev…

    I’ll edit this comment when I find the article that goes over all the finer points.

    Edit: Found the article I was looking for, looked at a few others, but this one was the first one I read and I found it to be the most clear.

    Edit 2: Just wanted to be clear, this is not my personal opinion of Sweet Baby, I’m trying to explain the current conspiracy theory that has everyone up in arms against this tiny studio.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, sweet baby worked on like background speech of NPCs in Suicide Squad from what I understand.

        Say even if they are responsible for this, the games

        The games what? I’m dying here!

        Edit: I think you misunderstood what I was saying in my previous reply.