| FOOD said: Too much ambition is the mark of a bad developer? I don't think so, at least not generally speaking. Lots of things can come out of having a lot of ambition. For starters, developers can spawn innovation and what not--and I'm not going to write an essay on it either. But I guess the guys who made Grand Theft Auto 3 through San Andreas were bad developers for making games with a huge, immersive worlds. If you ask me, the 3D Grand Theft Autos were seen as pretty damn ambitious back in the day, and the new one seems very ambitious too. |
Ok, I'm ambitious ... Me and my three friends will begin working on a MMORPG that rivals World of Warcraft and will be released for the Nintendo DS in 12 months; I must be a great developer because my proposal is ambitious to the level of being entirely insane.
Good developers are able to identify what the limitations are of the hardware they're working on, the scale of the project their team can handle, and the quality of work their team-members can actually produce.
