[game_edu] Resource division for games

[Nic Colley]

It looks like it is just developer basis. I was a little surprised as to how small the QA team was in comparison to the programmers.
 
Thanks,
Nic Colley
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From: Darius Kazemi [mailto:darius.kazemi at gmail.com]
Sent: Thu 05-Feb-09 1:13 PM
To: mark at baldwinconsulting.org; IGDA Game Education Listserv
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Resource division for games


Do you mean just at the developer, or everyone involved with the game? What about outsourced work? Because if you count publisher QA on past AAA games I've worked on, the QA team has easily been bigger than the programming team.


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Mark Baldwin <mark at baldwinconsulting.org> wrote:


	I would like to diverge here into a discussion of what the typical resource
	division (in time or money) is to create a typical A commercial game.
	Below are the rough numbers I use.   I'd like to hear some opinions on this.
	
	
	
	
	
	Management
	
	10%
	
	
	Design
	
	20%
	
	
	Art and Sound
	
	40%
	
	
	Programming
	
	25%
	
	
	Q/A
	
	5%
	
	
	
	Mark
	
	
	


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