On the flipside, this arrogance for quality and gaming experience is partially what’s driving people to smaller indie or f2p games as the core experience of the designer is from gaming roots and just having fun.

Your totally right. Tadhgs simply making the point that when a budget gets below to a certain point it’s not really enough to make a proper game as you correctly say depending on what platform and game type that number could be 250,000 or in some the bigger games we’re use too making much larger.

That’s a fairly blunt metric. $100k amounts to different degrees of resource utilization depending whereabouts you are in the world, for example the difference between San Francisco development and Ireland/England midland development is significant.

It may have been worth talking about the minimum resources that are necessary to make a game and the amount of time needed to make a game.

If you’re a handful of young guys without any dependants and you’re bootstrapping then you can produce something interesting on very little and build on it.

It’s a different story if you’re trying to convince investors as they’ll want to see as much as possible for as little as possible.

IMO, for any game idea that would cost $100k, you should be bootstrapping.

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