Just how easy is Gamecube development?

[Guest]

IGNCube recently had an interview with Criterion, the people behind the Racing game "Burnout." I'm not a big fan of racing games, but one question did interest me:

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[strong]IGNcube: How many people worked on the GameCube version of Burnout?[/strong]

[strong]Alex Ward:[/strong] Oh you'll be amazed at this one. Spill the beans Hamish.

[strong]Hamish:[/strong] Two programmers part-time, one programmer full-time, and several game designers. So you're looking at about five people.
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That is rather amazing.

 

[Roshambo]

Racing games really aren't that hard to develop, really.

 

[Guest]

So five people full time is standard complement for a racing game?

 

[Roshambo]

[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Apr-20-02 AT 08:56AM (GMT)[p]Working a bit into overtime and such, I believe so.

A music/sound composer can be doubled into a programmer, if they have the dual talent. Same with a graphic artist.

The other three can design interface, physics, etc. With console tools, platform games and racers are really easy to do.

Hell, with the right tools, a single person can make a platform game, and a racer isn't much more than that.