If you were the boss, how would you spend your time...

...making a game?

if you had to work on a brand new IP game (so don't think of your halos, metal gear solids, marios.), how would you distribute the time into each of the following categories to make it a successful game?

for example, if i gave you only 100 points to distribute, how would you distribute the points?... so lets say the more points you place into audio category, means the more time your employees will spend in the audio department.

Categories:

Visual presentation (graphics, menus, camera angles, etc)
Story (script writing, character personalities, etc)
Design (levels, quest, puzzles, etc)
Audio (music, voice overs, etc)
Gameplay (offense, defense, combo moves, animations, etc)
Multiplayer (game types, ranking systems, etc)


For me it would be:
VP - 25
S - 5
D - 10
A - 10
G - 35
MP - 15

Categories:

Visual presentation (graphics, menus, camera angles, etc)- 5
Story (script writing, character personalities, etc)- 40
Design (levels, quest, puzzles, etc)- 5
Audio (music, voice overs, etc)- 20
Gameplay (offense, defense, combo moves, animations, etc)- 30
Multiplayer (game types, ranking systems, etc)- 0

Cool original topic. :)

It depends. I've always had ideas for a single player shooter that would go like this...

Visual presentation: 15%
Story: 25%
Design 25%
Audio 15% with an emphasis on VA over music
Gameplay 20%
Multiplayer 0%

All the time would go into graphics:

Fully destructible environments, hundreds of thousands of particle effects, particle physics, thousands of global illumination lights (includes particles), the best dang lighting you ever done seen, 15k polys for character models, etc.

The goal of the game would be to... Can't think of anything. Probably just release that in a patch or something.

100% of the time of audio, basically what I'm saying is I would release an album and charge 60 bucks for it.

All the time would go into graphics:

Fully destructible environments, hundreds of thousands of particle effects, particle physics, thousands of global illumination lights (includes particles), the best dang lighting you ever done seen, 15k polys for character models, etc.

The goal of the game would be to... Can't think of anything. Probably just release that in a patch or something.

windsquid9000

40 % of my time will be invested in story

40% in gameplay

20% in graphical/visual department

I'll then hire somebody with his/her own points who will spear head everything else and run his/her work by me for the final word. :P

Visual presentation (graphics, menus, camera angles, etc)- 20 (go for art rather than technical)
Story (script writing, character personalities, etc) - 30
Design (levels, quest, puzzles, etc) - 10
Audio (music, voice overs, etc)- 20
Gameplay (offense, defense, combo moves, animations, etc) - 20
Multiplayer (game types, ranking systems, etc) - 0

All the time would go into graphics:

Fully destructible environments, hundreds of thousands of particle effects, particle physics, thousands of global illumination lights (includes particles), the best dang lighting you ever done seen, 15k polys for character models, etc.

The goal of the game would be to... Can't think of anything. Probably just release that in a patch or something.

Visual presentation: 30
Story: 10
Design: 20
Audio 10
Gameplay: 30
Multiplayer: 0

Not what I'd do for my ideal game, but that seems like the surest route to success.

Visuals- 20 Story- 1 Design- 10 Audio- 19 Gameplay- 20 Multiplayer- 30 ]Led_poison

Visual presentation: 30
Story: 10
Design: 20
Audio 10
Gameplay: 30
Multiplayer: 0

Not what I'd do for my ideal game, but that seems like the surest route to success.

Cherokee_Jack

In my ideal game I'd do what you did, move 10 from Design to Story, and 20 from Visuals to Gameplay.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

Visual presentation: 30
Story: 10
Design: 20
Audio 10
Gameplay: 30
Multiplayer: 0

Not what I'd do for my ideal game, but that seems like the surest route to success.

ElTriforceo

Yeah, great idea trying to become the next big multiplayer game. Just like all those MMOs that try to "kill WoW".

No MP in this game. Har, Har.

In short, most of my time will be in the Design, Audio (more towards the soundtrack, gotta get Jesper Kyd on this,and voice acting), and Gameplay. Hopefully I can get some Ex-Biowarewriters to work on the story for me. =P

Visual presentation (graphics, menus, camera angles, etc)
Story (script writing, character personalities, etc)
Design (levels, quest, puzzles, etc)
Audio (music, voice overs, etc)
Gameplay (offense, defense, combo moves, animations, etc)
Multiplayer (game types, ranking systems, etc)

VP - 15

Story - 5

Design - 30

Audio - 20

Gameplay - 30

MP - Pfft.

1.Story - 30
2.Gameplay - 25
3.Design - 20
4.Visual - 15
5.Audio - 10
6.Multiplayer - 0

...making a game?

if you had to work on a brand new IP game (so don't think of your halos, metal gear solids, marios.), how would you distribute the time into each of the following categories to make it a successful game?

for example, if i gave you only 100 points to distribute, how would you distribute the points?... so lets say the more points you place into audio category, means the more time your employees will spend in the audio department.

Categories:

Visual presentation (graphics, menus, camera angles, etc)
Story (script writing, character personalities, etc)
Design (levels, quest, puzzles, etc)
Audio (music, voice overs, etc)
Gameplay (offense, defense, combo moves, animations, etc)
Multiplayer (game types, ranking systems, etc)


For me it would be:
VP - 25
S - 5
D - 10
A - 10
G - 35
MP - 15

whataguy69

20-Visual presentation (graphics, menus, camera angles, etc)
0 -Story (script writing, character personalities, etc)
30-Design (levels, quest, puzzles, etc)
30-Audio (music, voice overs, etc)
20-Gameplay (offense, defense, combo moves, animations, etc)
0-Multiplayer (game types, ranking systems, etc)

[QUOTE="Led_poison"]Visuals- 20 Story- 1 Design- 10 Audio- 19 Gameplay- 20 Multiplayer- 30 ]ElTriforceo