Large Dev Teams Do Not Make For Quick Dev Cycles

Josh Bennett writes "1UP has a recent interview with Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Producer Mathieu Ferland where he talks about the difficulties in developing the game. In the article, Ferland said there are 120 people working on the game. That's not unheard of for a big budget EA game, but those games come out every year and the new Splinter Cell is taking more than two years at this point. Interesting read."

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Re:sure, ask a carpenter

[mcmonkey]

I've got nine women lined up; I'll let ya know in a month if we've made a baby.

Re:C'mon

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Re:sure, ask a carpenter

[LordNimon]

True, but if you can get nine women pregnant, you get to say, "Yeah, baby!"

(with apologies to Austin Powers)