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Most games have some kind of Credits sequence, I'm surprised someone isn't feverishly documenting them in a wiki somewhere.

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Moby Games seems to have something decent already. From my experience though, not all game companies are great about crediting all contributors.

https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,4...

Note that game credits sequences are sometimes just a list of who works at the company at the time of release, and not an actual reflection of who worked on the game.

This has resulted in a few problems where people get their name stripped off of a game they worked hard on but left the company prior to release etc. Also people may appear on the credits that were in fact in a different department on a different team and never touched the game.

From what I hear this is a problem in the movie industry as well. When you have a huge project that requires the work of hundreds of people spread across multiple years, and possibly multiple sub-contracting specialty companies, there's a lot of cracks for names to fall through.

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