Taking the game Black & White as an example, here's what it took to make that game:

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Taken directly from Gamasutra Postmortem: Lionhead Studios Black & White
Lionhead Studios
Black & White

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Full-Time Developers: 25

Contractors: 3

Budget: Approx. £4 million (approx. $5.7 million)

Length of Development: 3 years, 1 month, 10 days

Release Date: March 30, 2001

Platforms: Windows 95/98/2000/ME

Hardware Used: 800MHz Pentium IIIs with 256MB RAM, 30GB hard drives, and Nvidia GeForce graphics cards

Software Used: Microsoft Dev Studio, 3D Studio Max

Notable Technologies: Bink for video playback, Immersion touch sense for force-feedback mouse

Project Size: Approx. 2 million lines of code

Now you may or may not like the game, but it uses full 3D graphics and models. I am not trying to discourage you from trying, but this is pretty close to what it takes. The low end cost is $2 million and 2 years by 15+ developers,artists, etc

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Make it work.
Make it right.
Make it fast.

Edited by - CaptainJester on December 19, 2001 9:13:56 AM

Yes you need a team - at least a small team

For example I have done several smaller games together with a graphics artist.

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