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Research done for a budgeting project I did a while back. Here are the sources I used: http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Most_expensive_video_games http://gamasutra.com/view/news/167355/Game_Developer_reveals_2011_Game_Industry_Salary_Survey_results.php http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-video+game http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~evett/GameProgramming/LectureNotes/Game-timeline.pdf

well the trip on foot should negate all the calories, you little health fanatic you I hardly think so. I can only assume you've never drunk mountain dew. It's like consuming sugar-dipped loft insulation. I once drank the Dew and felt all my teeth slowly rotting inside my mouth.

Nonsense, thanks for sharing.

This is a template for a high concept, use it to pitch your idea to your investors and anyone else who is on board the project. http://www.csc.kth.se/utbildning/kth/kurser/DH2640/grip08/HighConceptTemplate-Inl4.pdf Some examples of what a high concept looks like: http://robert-varga.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/golden-pot-High-Concept-Document.pdf http://www.scribd.com/doc/32214869/Hulk-High-Concept Some examples of budgeting: Budgets: Killzone 2 - ~$40-60 million APB MMO - $50 million budget Planetside 2 - $50 million budget Budget: 10% marketing 8% testing 15% design 20% art 30% programming Artists: $40,000 to $65,000 Animators: $45,000 to $70,000 Lead Artists / Animators: $65,000 to $80,000 Game Designers: $40,000 to $70,000 Creative Directors / Lead Designers: $45,000 to $90,000 Programmers: $50,000 to $90,000 Lead Programmers: $75,000 to 100,000 Technical Directors: $90,000 to $120,000 Audio Designers: $65,000 to $75,000 Music Composers / Musicians: $65,000 to $90,000 Video Game Testers: $25,000 to $45,000 Lead Game Testers: $40,000 to $60,000 PR Marketing: $50,000 to $85,000

Finished my workout routine, my left testicle hurts and I have diarrhea. I feel the burn, yipee.

Everyone's an idea guy.

We thought that was his gravitational field warping space

I have just squealed like schoolgirl

...http://amestrib.com/sections/news/ames-and-story-county/time-needed-healing-after-police-shooting.html http://amestrib.com/sections/news/ames-and-story-county/suspect-police-chase-shooting-dead.html http://amestrib.com/sections/news/ames-and-story-county/autopsy-shows-chase-suspect-was-shot-twice.html Was on my campus. I heard about that a while back, definitively makes one think twice before calling the cops.

I also disagree with the notion that default narrative settings are apolitical. Thanks for sending me to a whiny ass blog. Happy to oblige. It has plenty of links to if you're curious about the validity of the claims. Regardless, I stand by the statement: anyone that thinks that "default narrative settings" are apolitical are lying to themselves. It's like when someone goes "Oh they called a game sexist, it's just to get more hits." If any attempt to push away from the "default" is seen as political, then the default is itself a political statement. Doubly so if people make a big deal about deviations away from the default as being political/social statements. I like how the blogger goes on and on about their politics instead of presenting their thesis, which instead becomes a supporting argument for their politics. I don't know if narratives are political or not, if that is just cause the author usually writes what they know and some of their personal perspectives seep in or whether they are actively trying to make a statement. I will say that making the unequivocal assumption that this is somehow inherently wrong as they should instead write the political correct version of what the blogger persuasion is. Maybe instead of whining about why white privileged cis gendered only males write white privileged cis gendered males, they'd like to throw their hat in the ring and inject a different perspective of woman is. That said I did find the knowledge of accomplished women refreshing, the prose pleasing and the overall lack of hostility novel but sadly I doesn't amount to anything other than venting or whining. Much like this post.

Dammit, these last 3 post have made me laugh.

Or I could blame Timmy for being a tattletale and run him with my sword.

I'm almost too excited for "Almost Human" with faceless Hollywood superstar Karl Urban.

Heh, amusing.

It's a lovely **** off to that one guy who did an entire paper explaining the chemistry of why Tali's sweat was great, which in the end amounted to a big pile of " I believe"

Guys, what happened to the Warning thread?

Don't you think some older games are best kept in the nostalgic archives and never revisited in case the gaming experience isn't what you remember it to be? OTOH some games age remarkably well and have true staying power which wouldn't be discovered if they're never revisited. ()

Nope that's me. Also has anyone noticed how Oby's avatar keeps changing to suit his posts, its like he is taking all our negativity and evolving. A super Oby :shudders:

Stay strong brother, fight the temptation! Seriously though, if you want to buy a console I would recommend you wait until they release the version where they have worked out all the kinks. On a related note, I can't wait to see what the RRD of this gen will be.

"Bigger than all of Dragon Age 2" Be still my beating heart. On the other hand game looks good. Edit: anyone knows anything about the possibility of hybrid specialization or how is that going to work? ReEdit: On an unrelated note, I'm kind of saddened by what passes for journalism these days. They couldn't get a correspondent to the event instead they just rely on a poorly shoot video that was probably shoot from a camera phone.

Its because adult men feel a need to justify why they like things perceived as being "childish" because society expects them to put childish things behind them when they reach adulthood and start providing for families leaving their only avenue of self expression being to paint their torso in two colors as a way of showing support to the local teams on game day. RE: the thread in general - I wish there was more depth on why these are super-great "epic games" instead of listing games and slapping up screen shots. Also I really think its hard to justify a list of "most epic games" which includes games that haven't been released and thus the epic/lack of epic qualities are entirely impossible to evaluate. Children's game serve as a way for children to explore their potential and as social conditioning that lets them know their place in a group. When they reach adulthood those game serve as an outlet for their unrealized potential, their frustration and as a means of escapism from an otherwise mundane existence. So just like all women still want to be little princesses, so do most men still want to be warriors and the like. On the thread: Better if the games a have no explanation, the explanation probably carries a virus.

It is unfortunately, there's some people that favor targeted exercises only. You end up with things like chicken legs and those arms.

You didn't sleep with your sister? What is wrong with you? On the subject, I had this game on my radar ever since I've heard that CRPGs were making a comeback. Hopefully the combat will play better than Expeditions.

@BruceVC: I think that when you reach a certain level of fitness getting gains becomes a very involved matter, which is for the expert who has the knowledge of how to achieve said gains. For the common man who is only trying to maintain their figure or complementing a diet with some exercise, I don't think that overexerting themselves is going to get them very far. I guess I'm trying to warn people who hit a plateau on their training regime to not get overconfident and realize that just because they can physically push themselves to the limit on a regular basis it means that they are healthy.

Well duh. I'd say excessive gaming is at least as dangerous as excessive exercising, both will kill you if you go crazy about it. Remember that reports of people dieing from exhaustion from playing too much WoW? Yes, they were Asian and also the one about the couple that let their baby die because they were playing WoW.