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tatann@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Bioware used to be able to make good AAA games quickly :

Mass Effect : 2007
Dragon Age : 2009
ME2 : 2010
DA2 : 2011
ME3 : 2012

With epic soundtrack, voice acting, cinematography, …

Even an independant (back then) studio like CD Projekt “only” needed 4 years between each Witcher game (2007, 2011, 2015), while making their own engine for the 2nd and 3rd

I don’t know where the years get lost in game development nowadays, except pre-production (lack of direction/managment) and… “open world”

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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
“Quickly” - the “Bioware magic” used to be years of lack of direction followed by one year of “HOLY SHIT WE NEED TO DELIVER!” crunch

But the former executive producer of Dragon Age, Mark Darrah (…) posted a YouTube video about how the so-called “BioWare magic” really worked. According to Darrah, it referred to a hockey stick graph where most of the progress is nearly unnoticeable. It’s nearly flat, and “if you draw that line out, then your game is shipping in like 30 years.” At a certain point, the developers hit a “pivotal point” when the game would finally shape up and a lot of progress would be made in a short amount of time. According to the developer, that tipping point is what is known as“BioWare magic.”

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