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Originally Posted by Arial Type
I just watched this video and got a little worried. It turns out Jane is outsourcing her games in Russia? Not very promising, since the Russian gaming business is in a bad state today. Even more, the developers from Signus Labs specialize on casual and flash games in social networks exclusively. How on earth are they planning to make a fully functional adventure game? |
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from. Russian companies is doing pretty well - companies come and go in every country. The story with Russia is that it has a lot of great talent due to extremely high level of education from Soviet times and a dreadfully poor political and business environment. (also post-soviet) The currency exchange also makes Russian attractive for budgets.
some random facts:
-Top iOS games are made either wholly or partially in Russia.
-Did you know that GTA4 was made in Scotland, US, Serbia and more?
-Even Simon 3D & Broken Sword have ties to russia!
-Parts of the latest battlefield were made in Sweden
Outsourcing is an element of modern game development and things like timezone differences are not relevant.
