Once I have created a new engine which has things like better dialog and better A.I, if I select that during the development of the game does that mean that I could lower the correlating field during the Dev so that I could concentrate on other sections or does it mean that I should look more into that specific area of the game?
Does addition from Game engines require needs during development
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Based on 20 small games, 10 medium games, 15 large games, and 1 MMO:
- Small games sell for 12 weeks
- Medium games sell for 18 weeks
- Large games sell for 20 weeks
MMOs behave differently. Instead of leaving the market after a set period, they have maintenance costs and income each week. You can add expansion packs to an MMO to boost income, or you can take it off the market to cut your losses.
Seemingly not - for testing I did the following;
Got to development stage 3 for my new game, which presents a screen as below to assign programmers to World Design, Graphics, and Sound:
As you can see above, I have assigned employees to each area and the only one outstanding currently is Graphics - James E. Garmack. Garmack has the lowest work speed of all three of my employees, so I then moved everybody around a bit without changing any other settings on the screen:
As you can see, the amount of work that will be completed doesn't change. For reference, these are the stats of my employees:
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Implementing a feature requires a certain amount of time spent on its area during development, if you don't give that area enough dev time, a percentage will appear next to its name on the right, showing you how much of the required time you have alloted. While the precise effect is not known, I assume adding loads of half-baked features will do your game no favors. If you're optimizing sliders for the genre, I would suggest adding as many sensible features as possible without the percentage appearing.