by nathan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Nathan Mates)
Jan 23, 2008 at 04:54 PM
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<bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I was just wondering roughly how many man-years go into a typical
>modern computer game.
When I started off in the professional games industry nearly 12
years ago, the development was probably 8-10 man years. (Small
company, so they ran with fewer people, etc). Now, it's probably at
least 100-150 man years, and that's not counting dedicated testers,
etc.
Nathan Mates
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