Some Games Industry Facts - A typical computer game costs
approximately £19.99-£49.99 to buy and anywhere from £300,000 to
£5,000,000 to develop! - A game, depending on its size, scope,
content and platform can take from 6 months to 3 years to
create. Most games have a team size varying between 12 and 60
staff which will include programmers, artists, designers,
scripters, audio engineers and producers. Games are also usually
created as multi- platform, (for example PC, Xbox360 and
Nintendo Wii). - There are approximately 200 hundred developers
based in the UK with team sizes varying from 20 to 200 people.
Across the world there are around 2000 developers some of which
employ over 1000 staff! - The UK is recognised as having some of
the best development studios in the world. UK game developers
are also employed at studios across the world; as far afield as
Australia, Canada, Japan and North America To many the creation
of a game may seem quite easy, but today’s games take a great
deal of time and resource. Mos