Hello,
My curious mind has been wondering what a bare bones AAA crew would be. I will list what would be required and fill free to add if I missed something.
Working capital $20,000,000 --- $80,000,000 for first 2 years.
I am curious if a crew of 10 could make a triple a game in 2 years the pool of applicants would be very well experienced. No need to worry about CEO and President outside of salary. The CEO is also an intermediate algorithm programmer. HR is also taken care of. Access to hundreds of thousands of art assets from Hollywood to Photorealistic. This is strictly the team that would be programming the game. Publishing is taken care of, marketing taken care of. This question I have been curious about for years, so I have had time to create the scenario.
5 people, 10 people, 15, 20, etc...
Lead Developer?
Lead Designer?
Designers?
Programmers?
Music?
Artists?
QA?
Any positions I missed.
Again assume wages for the crew at expert, the computers, desks, office, food, creative room(legos knex etc), think tank room with massage chairs, outdoor bbq area. If I missed something bring it up, this is imaginary so think sandbox where everyone can play in the discussion, but with some real world. I am thinking probably 10 mil a year for running the studio, I could be way off.
I think this could be a cool discussion.
Thank you