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I love the 12 month development plan. I wonder how long it actually took them.

• alex504 11y ago
  I was very interested to see that the team they pitched included only 11 people, including designers and illustrators. Only three programmers ('One chief programmer and two junior programmers'). Am I correct in thinking that a team this size would be considered closer to an indy game in 2016? I am not a game developer but this seems like a very stark comparison to the current landscape / size of software teams (not just limited to games).
  • chongli 11y ago
    No, an indie game is 1-3 people. Often 1 programmer, 1 artist, 1 musician.
    • PhasmaFelis 11y ago
      It's more flexible than that. A lot of indies are just one guy, but you certainly see small studios of 6-12 people doing e.g. Kickstarters.
      • yelnatz 11y ago
        I work in a game studio, I still can't wrap my head around one guy doing it all.
        • mrits 11y ago
          My startup now has about 25 coders doing what 2-3 of us did for a few years. I'm still not sure what everyone does. We are actually moving quite a bit slower these days.
  • douche 11y ago
    For the time, that was a pretty good sized team. Id did most of their early games with Carmack, Romero, Abrash, and a few different artists/level designers.
• chongli 11y ago
  First release was December 31, 1996. So nearly 3 years, instead of 1!
  • INTPenis 11y ago
    Though I doubt they started working immediately after pitch. I was also very interested in this point since my SO is a project manager and it rubs off. So for all we know it could have been pitched in Q4 1994 and finished in Q1 1996.
• RussellDussel 11y ago
  The way they talk about their Dynamic Random Level Generation suggests they probably already somewhat developed it (and probably other aspects of the game) as a proof of concept.