An explanation for why video game budgets have swelled to $300 million and more.READ:Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make https://www.bloomberg.com/n...
What he doesn’t explain that would actually be helpful is why teams are so big.
Can you not see the difference in money on the screen between Halo 1 and Destiny 2? One person can make Halo’s relatively simple models, complete with nutcracker-esque mouth syncing, much faster than you can make the likes of Destiny’s quest givers with far more complexity to them. So if you want to make more of those kinds of NPCs, you need more people making them. The same goes for any other discipline involved in making a game.
Like what are all the departments that work on AAA titles, what do they do, how many people on staff relative to other departments, what does a 3D modeler make vs. a gameplay programmer?
That all comes out in the average cost per employee, which is the same ballpark math the publishers are using to estimate, and he says that in this video.
Can you not see the difference in money on the screen between Halo 1 and Destiny 2? One person can make Halo’s relatively simple models, complete with nutcracker-esque mouth syncing, much faster than you can make the likes of Destiny’s quest givers with far more complexity to them. So if you want to make more of those kinds of NPCs, you need more people making them. The same goes for any other discipline involved in making a game.
That all comes out in the average cost per employee, which is the same ballpark math the publishers are using to estimate, and he says that in this video.