Join BootHammer as we take a look at our Top 5 nominees for Best New IP's for 2013. There are some really exciting titles in production and while the launch dates have yet to be announced, we have high hopes in seeing them all next year.
The story in part 3 of Sony Interactive Entertainment and Naughty Dog's The Last of Us series may explore a "congregation of immune people."
Former Naughty Dog artist Gabriel Betancourt explains why the "sweet spot" for game teams is under 200 people and how AAA "factories" kill creativity.
There’s definitely some truth to this. When teams get too large, coordination starts to outweigh creativity—layers of approval, risk aversion, and tight deadlines can turn bold ideas into “safe” ones. Keeping a team under ~200 people sounds ideal for maintaining clear communication and a shared vision. That said, massive AAA projects also come with huge technical demands and expectations, so scaling up isn’t always avoidable. The real challenge is figuring out how to keep that small-team creativity alive inside big studio structures.
More than that, it's logistically untenable. Inevitably, when teams get too large, how do you keep tabs on accountability? I suspect this massive team size is a consequence of the perfectionism streak Naughty Dog has.
I wish we could have so many people working on something and it turns out great because I'm all for collaboration in spirit - the problem is too many people as part of the larger team and smaller units. Suppose for example that you have too many people in the art department; you will very often come up against fiercely competing visions for how things should look. That competitive vision will cause friction between team members, team doesn't work as a unit, the back and forth can further delay parts that the other departments are waiting for, etc etc.
A 200-person team says, to me, that we need to scale back game development. Even if it means we go back to PS2 era costs and scale, why not? Those games are still great fun, the budgets were in check, and you could literally break the 200-man team into like 10 20-man teams working on different projects.
From Star Wars 1313 to Battlefront III and Project Ragtag, these are the cancelled Star Wars games fans still wish had made it to release.
Ni no Kuni
The Last of Us
Beyond Two Souls
Ni no Kuni
The Last of Us
Beyond: Two Souls
edit: nice job with the whole you know double post thing
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Great List of Titles. The only other title I would add to this list is Remember Me.
Star Wars 1313 is most probably a next gen title. Judging by the demo shown it couldn't be done on current gen consoles. I don't believe it's been announced for any platforms yet and it hasn't even got a release date either. Nice fantasy journalism.
When you have a article title "new ips for" its pretty much a given that Sony's titles will top that list seeing how they make a LOT of new ips during each gen.