Re: Biggest game companies

tsloper wrote:

> "Dirk Bruere at Neopax" <dirk.bru...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
> 
> 
>>>>Anyone point me to a list of the biggest game companies?
>>>
>>>Big, as in most copies sold and/or market share.
>>>My company is developing a particular product that should be of great
>>>interest to gamers. However, it needs industry sup****t at the game
>>>programming level.
>>
>>We want existing games developers to add code to output some internal
parameters
> 
> to drive our hardware.
> 
> And only the "biggest" developers will do for your purposes, you say. I
> was just saying that this requirement will add greatly to the expense -
> and reduces your chances of finding someone willing to help you. I've
> already suggested how to find the top ten game developers - if you want
> to widen that and find top hundred developers, try Google. There might
> be a list.

Well, we have to start somewhere and that might as well be with the
company that 
can provide the biggest slice of the market. From our POV it will not be
cheap 
providing them with prototypes they can play with. At present it would be 
something like $50k per shot pre-production. We cannot multiply that by
100.

> But in MY opinion, you need a skilled game programmer/engineer, someone
> knowledgeable about hardware, not a top-ten development company -- and
> you could start by using Gamasutra's Companies list to begin contacting
> programmers. Good luck, Dirk.

What we need is someone who can get into the source code of (say) Call of
Duty 
2, modify the code and then re-release it as an upgrade. That's not likely
to be 
someone we employ.

-- 
Dirk

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