Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]

Re:Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf] by alex504 on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:11PM (#11323672)

I was very interested to see that the team they pitched included only 11 people, including designers and illustrators. Only three programmers ('One chief programmer and two junior programmers').

Am I correct in thinking that a team this size would be considered closer to an indy game in 2016? I am not a game developer but this seems like a very stark comparison to the current landscape / size of software teams (not just limited to games).

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Re:Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf] by chongli on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:22PM (#11323727)

No, an indie game is 1-3 people. Often 1 programmer, 1 artist, 1 musician.

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Re:Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf] by PhasmaFelis on Sunday March 20, 2016 @04:42PM (#11324560)

It's more flexible than that. A lot of indies are just one guy, but you certainly see small studios of 6-12 people doing e.g. Kickstarters.

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Re:Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf] by yelnatz on Sunday March 20, 2016 @06:19PM (#11324950)

I work in a game studio, I still can't wrap my head around one guy doing it all.

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Re:Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf] by mrits on Monday March 21, 2016 @01:13PM (#11329647)

My startup now has about 25 coders doing what 2-3 of us did for a few years. I'm still not sure what everyone does. We are actually moving quite a bit slower these days.

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Re:Original Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf] by douche on Sunday March 20, 2016 @04:13PM (#11324447)

For the time, that was a pretty good sized team. Id did most of their early games with Carmack, Romero, Abrash, and a few different artists/level designers.

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