Humble Indie Bundle V Generates Five Million USD

[AJenbo]

AAA doesn't mean anything if you judge it solely by the budget. And when I say AAA I mean quality since I don't give a rat's ass how much they spent creating a game. That's why I played Call of Duty and stuff alike - because it's sophisticated and cool. There's nothing like this in the Bundle and since they have big budgets lately they can probably try to create and/or ship such a title. I'm sure you can create a good title with under a million $. There are good free engines like doom3 and whatnot, so you don't really have to create a game from scratch.

Misusing a label because you feel a different meaning fits better is not going to help you communicate with others.
Also "sophisticated" sure must be a subjective term cause i find LIMBO way more sophisticated then CoD.

[directhex]

I'm sure you can create a good title with under a million $.

Well, not by your standards, since you're not happy with any of these ~$1m budget games, because they're not the almost-a-hundred-million-dollar-to-develop Call of Duty.

There are good free engines like doom3 and whatnot, so you don't really have to create a game from scratch.

Art assets are the expensive part. Most games today, including big budget ones, use off the shelf engines. Even low-cost engines.

[directhex]

Misusing a label because you feel a different meaning fits better is not going to help you communicate with others.
Also "sophisticated" sure must be a subjective term cause i find LIMBO way more sophisticated then CoD.

"sophisticated" as in "large choice of shooty shooty bang bangs"

[johnc]

What this world needs is more complaining about good news stories.

[johnc]

Looks like the Humble Bundle folks are looking for some Linux help if anyone's interested:

https://plus.google.com/103555773917939181320/posts/62V7koySnxS

[AnonymousCoward]

Quality rings a bell? Hello? I didn't play Left 4 Dead because it had a big budget, but because it's sophisticated and cool, that's what AAA games mean. I haven't seen such games on Humble Bundle.

So basically you're looking for the bargain bin of major publishers. Which the Humble Indie Bundle is not, by definition.

[mark45]

So basically you're looking for the bargain bin of major publishers. Which the Humble Indie Bundle is not, by definition.

They're definitely getting a lot of money, so by definition - they're not after major publishers, but by quality standards and the amount of money they raise - that's the natural target. If you stall you lose, that's how capitalism works.

[directhex]

They're definitely getting a lot of money

But, as I showed earlier, the maximum any HIB5 developer would have gotten is $0.6m, assuming everyone who bought the HIB went for a 100% developer split (the default is not this).

$0.6m is not much money outside indie game circles.

[madjr]

It was a system seller - millions of systems - but doesn't meet the modern definition for "Triple A title" - a term which only really started appearing in the CD-ROM game era, which is rather more modern than the Game Boy. AAA is mostly about budget - the rest is fluff. and Tetris had a low budget.

I believe a "system seller" is sometimes considered the best kind of game. The best ROI.

I mean I don't know if Mario would be considered AAA or not, but it certainly is a system seller.

while many other games have cost many millions but flopped...

so if a game (or film) costs like 200 million and flops is that considered AAA or not ?

I mean hey remember Water-world with its AAA budget?

http://www.filmsite.org/greatestflops.html

[madjr]

I'm sure you can create a good title with under a million $. There are good free engines like doom3 and whatnot, so you don't really have to create a game from scratch.

Agree with this, like overdose is doing:

http://www.indiegogo.com/overdose?a=537463