Quote Originally Posted by flipper
Also, budget is not everything for a game. I am working on my own project and I have hardly spent a dime. I have gotten a web server, webpage, forums system, C++ Compiler, 3d modleing/animation suite, graphics suite, music maker, and graphics API all for free. Can't beat that OF course, I don't have to pay myself I am such a chincy bastard
Woooaaaa there, buddy. You just listed off a bunch of things that would probably cost a few thousand dollars together. Do you mean that you got it for free like from school or something or that someone else (like parents or something) bought them for you. Either way... SOMEONE coughed up the money... that stuff doesn't come cheap, ya know. Heh. So I guess technically YOU didn't spend a dime... but SOMEONE did. Man... I wish I had all that good stuff at my disposal. I'll have to say that while budget isn't EVERYTHING, it is a HUGE chunk of the pie that makes up game development.

I just watched that Big Rigs video... and I'm speechless. I have no idea how a game like that could have made it onto store shelves. It looks like it's in pre-alpha state... it's horrible! Something must have happened during development to make this game get pushed out before it was ready... maybe the devs or publisher went bankrupt or something...I dunno. Just so you guys know... there is no way in hell a game like this would ever get to be released for a mainstream console. Because publishers do their own certification for PC games, they can pretty much release a game in any state they want. Nintendo, MS, and Sony all do the certification for every game released on their consoles. And while they will let some bugs go... there is no way a game as shoddy as Big Rigs would pass.