Quote: "I really wish I could pledge, but I genuinely have no money whatsoever.
Either way I think TGC's goal of 60,000 pounds is totally ridiculous! I mean, that's $92,000!! That's simply waaaay to much for FPSCR. It might be ok if they were making FPSC2, but...$92,000!!! I'm not saying there's anything wrong with only "reloading" FPSC; on the contrary, it sounds great! But...
NINETY-TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! Friggin heck that's a lot of money!
Clonkex"
Well Well some one just had to get the greed card in play.
I think and I am so sorry. (NOT) that once you graduate from pre school you will be able to read and write and see life without rose colored glasses.
FACTS::
Here is the breakdown of pricing for a LOW END High Quality gaming software program
Months
Involvement
Salary/yr
Salary/mo
Programmer 1
16
100%
$90,000
$7,500
$120,000
Programmer 2
16
100%
$70,000
$5,833
$93,333
Programmer 3
12
50%
$50,000
$4,167
$25,000
Programmer 4
5
100%
$50,000
$4,167
$20,833
Artist 1
5
100%
$50,000
$4,167
$20,833
Artist 2
4
75%
$30,000
$2,500
$7,500
Artist 3
3
75%
$45,000
$3,750
$8,438
Artist 4
3
50%
$40,000
$3,333
$5,000
Sound engineer
1
75%
$50,000
$4,167
$3,125
Game designer 1
4
100%
$50,000
$4,167
$16,667
Game designer 1
6
50%
$50,000
$4,167
$12,500
Level designer
9
100%
$35,000
$2,917
$26,250
Line Producer
16
50%
$85,000
$7,083
$56,667
Total personnel costs
$416,146
Overhead
20%
Profit
20%
Total
$582,604
Rounded - final bid
$580,000
So here you have it. And truth be known The Kickstarter *in my opinion* and i do not count. Should have been 3 times the 60 they set, and the time frame 6 months.
http://games.greggman.com/game/how_much_does_it_cost_to_make_a_game_/
would you happen to know how much it costs a company to produce an original video game – thank ya greggman!
It depends on the game. I can tell you that a certain team I worked on which had about 15 people for a year cost 2.5 million and that’s development costs only. That does not include advertising, duplication, distribution, returns etc. I can also tell you that the next title from that same team is going to cost 4 times that, twice as many people working twice as long. It all depends on the game.
For example Warcraft 2 (I think it was 2) cost only like $750K but Diablo cost like 3 mill and Diablo 2 cost like 6 or 9 mill. A game like Tetris could be done for like $20K or less, especially like "Next Tetris" for Playstation which if you take a look at as no art. It’s as though it was done completely by one programmer (plus some music)
Basically the more people it requires the more it costs. A game like Warcraft2 had fairly simple graphics so it probably only took 3 artists to make all the art. Diablo 2 on the other hand has not only much more detailed graphics, probably required 10 or more artists but it also has CG video sequences also requiring several artists. It took more than 3 years so lets say each artist made $40K (which may or may not be a low figure) Assume 16 artists, that’s 40K * 3years * 16, that’s almost 2 million right there and that’s NOT including overhead (ie, desk, computer, health ins, 401k, heat, electricity) That stuff can add up to 30% more and that’s only the artists. Add 5 to 10 programmers., music people, game designers, producers.
DOOM, remember DOOM, what’s it now 6 years old?. That cost probably like 200K and only took 3 people but it was designed to only take 3 people. There are only 10 monsters each with only about 10 frames of animation total if that. The levels are basically laid out in 2D which makes them much much much quicker to build than a Quake level which must be layed out in 3D. And there are only about 15 items. 7 weapons (or was it 5), health, armor, keys, doors and moving platforms. (vs say a character action game like Mario, Gex or Crash where there are hundreds of individually programmed things)
PS here is the final agreement on the project listed above as the Developers agreed to reduce fees for a 10% royality on all sales for 5 years,
payment commensurately.
Fee milestone
Minus
Royalty milestone
Signing $60,000
20%
$48,000
Tech spec
$40,000
20%
$32,000
Engine integration
$40,000
20%
$32,000
First playable
$60,000
20%
$48,000
One complete level
$60,000
20%
$48,000
Alpha
$60,000
20%
$48,000
Demo CD
$50,000
20%
$40,000
Beta
$60,000
20%
$48,000
Release
$60,000
20%
$48,000
European SKUs
$30,000
20%
$24,000
Japanese SKU
$30,000
20%
$24,000
OEM
$30,000
20%
$24,000
Total
$580,000
20%
$464,000
Table 3. Developers slash milestone payments by 20% in order to get a 10% royalty.
The attempted lesson is look and learn before spreading nasty things about people and .........
OK Flame on.
This really ticked me off as this project is a great one and will help many thousands of people learn and create.
