# The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry - Hardcover

by **David Polfeldt** (Author)

**The inside story of the booming video game industry from the late 1990s to the present, as told by the Managing Director of** **Ubisoft's** **Massive Entertainment (_The Division_, _Far Cry 3_, _Assassin's Creed: Revelations_).**At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director Polfeldt has had a hand in some of the biggest video game franchises of today, from _Assassin's Creed_ to _Far Cry_ to Tom Clancy's _The Division_, the fastest-selling new series this generation which revitalized the Clancy brand in gaming.

In _The Dream Architects_, Polfeldt charts his course through a charmed, idiosyncratic career which began at the dawn of the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox era -- from successfully pitching an Avatar game to James Cameron that will digitally create all of Pandora to enduring a week-long survivalist camp in the Scandinavian forest to better understand the post-apocalyptic future of _The Division_.

Along the way, Polfeldt ruminates on how the video game industry has grown and changed, how and when games became art, and the medium's expanding artistic and storytelling potential. He shares what it's like to manage a creative process that has ballooned from a low-six-figure expense with a team of a half dozen people to a transatlantic production of five hundred employees on a single project with a production budget of over a hundred million dollars.  
A rare firsthand account of the golden age of game development told in vivid detail, _The Dream Architects_ is a seminal work about the biggest entertainment medium of today.

### Author Biography

**David Polfeldt** is the Managing Director of Massive Entertainment, a world-leading video game studio and part of the Ubisoft family. At Massive, David has worked industry-defining, AAA games such as _Assassin's Creed: Revelations_, _Far Cry 3_, and Tom Clancy's _The Division_, which together have generated billions in revenue worldwide. Massive is currently developing a series of Avatar video games in collaboration with James Cameron and Lightstorm which will be released in conjunction with the forthcoming Avatar movies.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 9.1 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** September 01, 2020

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