How long is a long time? High quality assets take time to make, and depending on what they are, and how detailed or large they need to be will dictate how long it takes. Taking 48 hours to make a lamppost is too slow (unless it's one hell of a lamppost), taking that same 48 hours to create and texture a character for…
This is Ataulfo, was done in 48 hours last year for the Global Game JAM. Here it is the game.BTW. http://www.kongregate.com/games/ataulfoclubband/ataulfo-heartquest
[..]23 42 ? Hey, that's the two numbers I use as placeholder integer values. It's 23, the number of the Illuminati and 42, the Answer. But 48, 15 and 16?