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Euphoria14 on 20 May 2010

 

Sales as of now are ~60k WW and I firmly believe that ~150-200k may be a reasonable break even point at most, but I want to know what you guys think.
First off the game didn't have tons and tons of pre-production planning, it was just a simple game started up by one man and made into a demo, as shown here.
3D Dott Game Heroes is a title the US is excited about. How did you come up with the idea for it?
 
It came from one artist. One artist made a simple demo and that started the game.

 

Sales as of now are ~60k WW and I firmly believe that ~150-200k may be a reasonable break even point at most, but I want to know what you guys think.

 

First off the game didn't have tons and tons of pre-production planning, it was just a simple game started up by one man and made into a demo, as shown here.

 

3D Dot Game Heroes is a title the US is excited about. How did you come up with the idea for it? 

It came from one artist. One artist made a simple demo and that started the game.

 

 

Plus add in the fact that after that it only took 10 months to complete the game.

 

Do you think you’re going to move into the business of developing more games in the future?

 

Maybe. We don’t know. It depends on the industry and the economy. Our core business is middleware, but we are always looking for an opportunity to make a good games.

 

We are looking for partners in the US. If any publishers would like to work with us we can work together. Also, because we have the technology we can develop games very quickly. This game [3D Dot Game Heroes] was made in ten months. None of the members of the game team had prior experience with PS3. We just used our middleware and they started developing it. Ten months later we had a game.

 

 

That 10 months includes script, modeling, etc... and considering they are using their already created middleware engines the costs should have been absolutely minimal.

 

What do you think the cost of production was as well as the break even point? I hope it is low because I WANT a sequel! They have ideas but it all depends on sales.

 

All quotes are from this Silicon Studios interview from May.

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/03/17/silicon-studio-president-talks-3d-dot-game-heroes-and-how-they-started-making-games/



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hatmoza on 20 May 2010

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badgenome on 20 May 2010

That's pretty impressive. It did seem to have all come together pretty fast. One day I was nerding out over some awesome screenshots of water, and the next the game was arriving in the mail.



ROBOTECHHEAVEN on 20 May 2010

hope it meets the point a sequel can be made, its a great game.



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jammy2211 on 20 May 2010

Anything From From Software is going to be reletively low budget - you could tell Demons's Souls success pretty much blew their minds.

I doubt 3d dot cost them much and chances are it'll make a small profit. I'm not sure about a sequel - I reckon they might continue the brand but into a 2d metroid or 2d rpg or something type thing - not another Zelda clone.