question for the devs

[raving]

Im just curious atm, but how many people do you have working on this game atm? i just want to get a picture of how many people you need for 1 game.

[szebus]

In that case, I am courious how mutch money should I win on lottery to create a game ?

[Alex Walz]

Games take time, talent, and dedication, not money. Money helps with marketing of course, but it's not a necessity for development. Most of the work on DoF was done before Reverie received some funding and could begin paying its staff and 0 AD is a just as magnificent and ambitious RTS that's done with zero funds at all, save the little bit here and there that they get from donations and use for site hosting.

I think Reverie probably has two or three dozen employees. Not counting the testers and marketing staff, that's a good number for a game. Bigger studios that are rolling in dough, like Blizzard, have much more employees. I believe their WoW department has somewhere near 200 employees and 100 each for their Diablo and SC2 departments.

[The Witch King of Angmar]

Now that that's said and done, it really shows how hard the road for this game has been since its been in production for 5+ years and why we shouldn't complain when there are delays. Lol, just kidding.

[Alex Walz]

since its been in production for 5+ years

8+ years. 9 by the time of release.

[LiTos456]

Lol when this game comes out we'll be old men with beards living in a post apocalyptic future. xD just kidding

[Liljagare]

Dang, I'll be getting my game finished when I in the retirement home...

[nickson104]

Originally Posted by LiTos456

Lol when this game comes out we'll be old men with beards living in a post apocalyptic future. xD just kidding

Indeed

Originally Posted by Liljagare

Dang, I'll be getting my game finished when I in the retirement home...

Wow thats awesome... I didnt know there would be retirement homes after the apocalypse!!!

[The_Biz]

Originally Posted by Alex

Games take time, talent, and dedication, not money. Money helps with marketing of course, but it's not a necessity for development. Most of the work on DoF was done before Reverie received some funding and could begin paying its staff and 0 AD is a just as magnificent and ambitious RTS that's done with zero funds at all, save the little bit here and there that they get from donations and use for site hosting.

I think Reverie probably has two or three dozen employees. Not counting the testers and marketing staff, that's a good number for a game. Bigger studios that are rolling in dough, like Blizzard, have much more employees. I believe their WoW department has somewhere near 200 employees and 100 each for their Diablo and SC2 departments.

i thought blizzard had thousands of employees

[szebus]

It may have thousands with all the personals.