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An indie studio building not only its own engine but its own language to make its own engine seems like a huge mistake.
by harles 2y ago
An indie studio building not only its own engine but its own language to make its own engine seems like a huge mistake.
- badsectoracula 2y agoConsidering the money he made from Braid alone (let alone The Witness, which back then he claimed that it was about to surpass Braid's sales) - $4m mentioned at some point - i'd say the mistake would be his expenses. $4m alone (again, let alone his other games) would be enough to retire and make languges, engines and whatever else he wanted.
- santoshalper 2y agoFor yourself, sure. To pay others to do it? Hardly. A two-pizza team in the US costs $1M to $2M a year fully loaded, depending on location.
- badsectoracula 2y agoUS is huge, i'm 100% certain that he could move to a cheaper location if that was a concern. And with the Internet there isn't really a reason to limit yourself to people from US, a fraction of that would be enough to contract people from EU (though i'm certain you can also find people from US with much less than $500k/year-$1m/year to work on games).