This Is How Much It Costs To Add One Character To A Fighting Game

Is that a real graph? What is "rewards" ? Why isn't 1st party cert and fees lumped together? Do they contract out QA testers too (if not why aren't they under staff, aka staff $48k includes the $20k QA)? Do voices not fall under audio?

Seems a bit vague, confusing and/or exaggerated.

It might just be an industry term that I'm not familiar with, but what the hell is a "Hitbox" and why does it cost $2,000? The only time I've ever heard that word is in WoW and other MMO's in reference to how close you have to be to an enemy for your attacks to hit them.

I'm also willing to bet that if they reduce the size of her boobs, they could probably cut their animation costs in half.

A hitbox is an invisible box (or more often a series of boxes) which define the rough shape of a model for purposes of damage-based collision detection. A typical model within a game is much too high-poly to perform real-time hit calculations on, so hitboxes are used instead.

Hitboxes are used in almost any animation that involves collisions because it takes a lot of power to process animations properly

Blah blah blah. In fighting games the only thing that is important is hitboxes because its what the game detects as a hit

Easiest to conceptualize in a schmup.

I'm guessing voice acting is separate because they have to pay a voice actor that isn't part of the audio department. The hitboxes section is maybe the coders? The first party cert is probably separate to show just how much that one fee is. Probably the most expensive out of all the others. I think they are trying to make a point with this graph so they separate the most expensive things even though they can be lumped together.

The pointer she is using is most certainly a penis.

I feel sorry for your penis then

I don't remember any of my teachers looking like that.

While I'm not a fan of how some people use Kickstarter, I have no beef with the service itself. I'm quite excited to play some Kickstarter games like Shadowrun Returns, and Dead State.

As for this... that is a lot of money.

$20,000 for QA seems excessive. I wonder where they pulled that figure from?

You'd be surprised, especially with bigger budget games. You have not only the people who hunt down bugs and glitches in a game, they also have to recode the game to squash the bugs and then test the fix to make sure that it is fixed and doesn't break anything else, which it usually does. It can be quite costly and you seen what happens when games skimp over the QA or skip it entirely. Developers pour money into making sure the games have very few bugs or bugs that break the game and they got to pay the people who are fixing the bugs and testing em.

I'm a QA Tester for a software company, so I know how it works, I just don't know how it costs so much on top of the $48,000 for all staff salaries for the project. Especially considering it's just DLC... a team of ten could make this happen in a couple months.

You should apply to QA for them. Clearly they pay well.

A team of 2 made an entire fighting game in Game Maker, then ported it to XBLA. For about the total they are asking for one character.

Or Ben 10

Discussed this on Kotaku, about how most of these numbers are bullshit.

They are contracting a lot of things, in other words, not doing it themselves. Hit boxes don't cost money. They are literally squares and rectangles for each frame showing areas that can cause damage, or take damage. No one finds it strange that Q&A costs more than the actual development?

You can't help but wonder how many staff members they have, and what they actually do...
There is never really a ton of people working on one character, since each frame is hand-drawn, it's usually limited to 2 artists to stay consistent. What is everyone else doing, with all this contracting going on?

I clicked this link because of the cartoon teacher.