[game_edu] Resource division for games

[John Hopson]

Depending on your definition of "creating a game", there's a lot of other folks who should be on there.  Marketing, HR, etc.

If you want a quick and dirty method for estimating this, try using the in-game credits for a few published games.  The printed manual credits often leave out people who only work on the game during specific parts of the development process.


From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Dan Carreker
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [game_edu] Resource division for games

Yeah, that's the first thing that jumped out at me, the small QA percentage.  Also is this throughout the life of the project, or at the start of the project?  Particullarly QA, but all department sizes change as you get to crunch mode

--- On Thu, 2/5/09, Nic Colley <Nic.Colley at cpcc.edu> wrote:

From: Nic Colley <Nic.Colley at cpcc.edu>
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Resource division for games
To: "IGDA Game Education Listserv" <game_edu at igda.org>
Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 10:27 AM
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<http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=darius.kazemi@gmail.com>]
Sent: Thu 05-Feb-09 1:13 PM
To: mark at baldwinconsulting.org<http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mark@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<http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mark@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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