LOL :D Well, I enjoyed this "non-game indie game art bullshit" a whole lot more than most AAA games I've played in a while. LOL :D My point was, regardless of what you think of Journey, is that you don't need a large team to make a great product if you make it with the core game play in mind and making it fun to play.…
I know a couple people that left Bioware because they didn't feel secure, both incredibly skilled. Now if you can't atleast provide the illusion of job security to your staff you'll end up paying for it in another way, whether it is taking on less experienced people or paying your experienced staff more. Loyalty is…
Yeah totally, I predict that the next consoles will be the last generation of the traditional home consoles as we know them. I think we'll move more towards smart tvs where you can rent or purchase games online like watching a movie on netflix and where the rendering happens at some renderfarm in a warehouse somewhere and…
there's valve, and there's everyone else. almost everyone else has to pander to publishers and investors who either own the rights to the IP that the developer is working on, or just outright controls the studio through monetary power. valve has neither of those problems, and has grown at what... 10-20% year on year,…
The reality is hardware and CPU power have driven development costs and team sizes to unmanagable sizes. The industry needs to be automated, over the coming decades procedural generation tools will bring team sizes and budgets back down to more reasonable sizes. Game industries growth over the last 10 years is a chimera,…
Yep. Games on SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, and PSX were all very innovative differed from one another quite vastly. Even PS2 and Xbox were pretty creative with their titles. SNES is still my favorite system to date... just with the quality of games that came out for its time. Creativity came to a painfully slow crawl when it…
Maybe, but don't forget that when you're trying to pull every single trick in the book to get good looking models which are limited to 4-5 year old budget into your kaput engine which doesn't read certain data or formats correctly, you're just asking for extra cost, if you spend an extra 15 minutes (and I'm being…