man-years

[b...@coolgroups.com]

I was just wondering roughly how many man-years go into a typical
modern computer game.

[Nathan Mates]

In article <58820c59-d4f2-401d...@m34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,

<b...@coolgroups.com> wrote:
>I was just wondering roughly how many man-years go into a typical
>modern computer game.

When I started off in the professional games industry nearly 12
years ago, the development was probably 8-10 man years. (Small
company, so they ran with fewer people, etc). Now, it's probably at
least 100-150 man years, and that's not counting dedicated testers,
etc.

Nathan Mates

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[Luc The Perverse]

b...@coolgroups.com wrote:
> I was just wondering roughly how many man-years go into a typical
> modern computer game.
>

On the low end - I made a game last week in about 6 hours.

Mid range - On the other hand a 40 man team has been working on
Starcraft 2 for about 2 years and it is nowhere near done

High end - Take a look at the Final Fantasy series.

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[thomas...@gmx.at]

On 23 Jan., 09:05, b...@coolgroups.com wrote:
> I was just wondering roughly how many man-years go into a typical
> modern computer game.

Just curious: Do you want to develop your own game?

Greetings Thomas Mertes

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[Phlip]

> I was just wondering roughly how many man-years go into a typical
> modern computer game.

Modern high-end games are comparable to big-studio motion pictures. >100
worker-years.

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