When I fire up call of duty there is listed approximately 50 or 60 companies in the opening sequence, yet streamers only ever refer to treyarch. Then I fire uo Witcher 3, and there is credited nearly no companies by comparison yet it is one of best games to come out of the last 6 years. How does AAA game development work?
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It’s not easy nor cheap for a company to do everything single piece of software it needs all by itself, so often people opt to buy technologies created by others. You mentioned Witcher 3, so i booted it up and check some of the tools they showed
Simplygon (3D graphics optimization), SpeedTree (nature simulation), Wwave (audio management), Umbra (another optimisation tech) and some more
If they didn’t use them and had to create everything from scratch, it’s safe to assume they would spend few more years (and dollars) developing the game.
So if you ever see some of the logos next time you boot up your game, know they’re just some much needed tools that helped make the game.
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