I remember us having this lament soon after the last exodus of Blizzard North folks, and speculation about the future of development efforts. I think the hollywoodreporter.com is manufacturing a mountain from a molehill of news (cancelation of some unannounced project), or they are about 6 months behind the times.
Game programming is not akin enough to rocket science yet, such that the available (unemployed) software engineering pool in north California is drained. Losing the talent that they have is a huge economic blow, and it means extra costs in bringing new staff up to speed with their existing code base (to handle support issues). While simultaneously it opens up opportunities for those who stay, or for the company to hire new talent. I would surmise that the projects that were cancelled were either due to the fact that they were conceptually poor, or under funded, rather than due to a shortage of available talent (at least in the marketplace).
I think if I were trying to build a game in todays marketplace the problem would be in trying to find the niche in which your product can shine, with most of the popular genre's being vastly over exploited (e.g. MMORPG).
Anyone seen this one yet?
X2: The Threat Review
X2: The Threat - Homepage
Game programming is not akin enough to rocket science yet, such that the available (unemployed) software engineering pool in north California is drained. Losing the talent that they have is a huge economic blow, and it means extra costs in bringing new staff up to speed with their existing code base (to handle support issues). While simultaneously it opens up opportunities for those who stay, or for the company to hire new talent. I would surmise that the projects that were cancelled were either due to the fact that they were conceptually poor, or under funded, rather than due to a shortage of available talent (at least in the marketplace).
I think if I were trying to build a game in todays marketplace the problem would be in trying to find the niche in which your product can shine, with most of the popular genre's being vastly over exploited (e.g. MMORPG).
Anyone seen this one yet?
X2: The Threat Review
X2: The Threat - Homepage
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