Higher barrier to entry? was RE: [MUD-Dev] NEWS: Blizzard Ent ertainment announces World of Warcraft

[Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Hook [mailto:bwh at wksoftware.com]

> So our strategy is to control costs and target small, but
> interested, markets.  Our first game will be a single player space
> flight sim shoot 'em up type thing, and it will be released after
> 4 months of development work by TWO people.  It's not going to be
> earth shattering, but it will be cheap, fun, easy to play and will
> run on any computer sold since 1998 (and RealArcade will probably
> be our distribution mechanism).

I'm interested to know how you are generating the gfx resources? 
This always seems the most difficult aspect to me - I know I can
write a 3d engine, hell I could probably implement boned character
models etc, but I know for sure I couldn't make the models
themselves. I've read up on a lot of project post-mortems on
gamasutra with particular interest in small teams, the overall trend
seems to be that whilst you can get by with a couple of coders, you
can't shave the art team too much.

(I am of course only refering to graphical products here!)

Dan

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