Video-game producers have long been caricatured as mere bean-counters, glorified accountants standing quietly behind a studio's true artist: the lead designer. A new industry study makes a (i) ______ case that this picture has the credit almost entirely backward, insisting that crediting a lone visionary designer with a game's identity, while treating everyone else on the team as replaceable (ii) ______ following someone else's blueprint, gets the process wrong; producers, the study argues, typically function as the project's primary (iii) ______ engine, steering budgets, deadlines, and staffing choices long before a single line of dialogue is written.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. familiar	D. auteurs	G. artistic
B. compelling	E. drones	H. operational
C. dubious	F. prodigies	I. dormant