A Gamer Spent 200 Hours Building an Incredibly Detailed Digital San Francisco

Re:A Gamer Spent 200 Hours Building an Incredibly Detailed D... by neonbat on Monday October 31, 2016 @02:34PM (#12839641)

my question: if this takes '200 hours and 1 gamer' then what are people at AAA game studios even doing?

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Re:A Gamer Spent 200 Hours Building an Incredibly Detailed D... by greggyb on Monday October 31, 2016 @03:29PM (#12840095)

Building an incredibly powerful engine and flexible modding system to enable one person to do this in 200 hours....

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Re:A Gamer Spent 200 Hours Building an Incredibly Detailed D... by neonbat on Friday November 04, 2016 @03:36PM (#12875341)

yeah i mean usually thats a fixed cost right? like is that actually a cost of AAA titles? do they make a new engine for every game? i dont think they do.

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