Posted: 01 November 2003 at 4:29pm | IP Logged

I hope this dosn't come off as rude, I am just curious.  I noticed you had a pretty small dev team there on this one (And there is hope for all the small houses out there!!!!) so my question is, 'Did you goes write that engine or buy it from someone?'  Agian, not wanting to sound rude, just curious.  I have a very small band of programmers who's major project will have the same scope as Vega$, so Thus my curiosity.

Havin a blast,

M/10

Posted: 01 November 2003 at 7:27pm | IP Logged

Excellent.  It gives hope to us small houses with big dreams:)

BTW, You guys are evil in the Demo!  Just BARLEY not enough room for a large casino...(Whimper).

Guess I have to deal with a medium (Or 2:)

Laters,

m/10

Posted: 02 January 2004 at 7:34pm | IP Logged

Take it from me, you just don't need more people than that to do almost anything - they just have to be good as these guys are. Get 2 or 3 expensive and talented programmers with proven histories and they'll cost less than a 100 post-grads and give you double the rewards.

I've seen programming teams where one guys job for 18 months is to code the buttons for the interface! There'll be 24 programmers working on AI, 16 on the 3D engine and 10 more on 'other'. All they do all day is talk to each other to find out who's doin what tomorrow.

If you put 1 or 2 guys into each of those departments, you'll save a mil a year and still get the same amount of work done. It absolutely amazes me how big developers urinate money away playing "my teams bigger than yours". I'd rather go with "my team is actually a team" and get a profitable game made.

Seriously, a lot of upper management/producers/publishers have no clue how much one single competent programmer can get done in year when he can spend that entire year thinking and typing rather than attending development meetings...

Posted: 02 January 2004 at 7:50pm | IP Logged

Just lookin at this topic

Again, we have more game programmers and stuff. That's 3 or 4 people now I've seen who are game designers and stuff.

Don't want to sound rude, but why is all the game designers and programmers here for, were you all attracted by Vega$: Make it Big?!

Sorry, it's just a strange coincidence

Posted: 02 January 2004 at 8:51pm | IP Logged

Nah, we're the same ones

I think every games programmer dreams of making it big too

Posted: 05 January 2004 at 8:25pm | IP Logged

game develoeprs know a good game when they see it.

I agree 100% about the small, good teams thing.