Future of Game Development
In the book Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry by Jason Schreier, the author discussed the future of video game development.
I will tell you: small studios with specific specialties:
“‘I think the future is going to be: there’s a small team in charge of the creative vision, and then all of the other work is outsourced,’ This is one vision of a sustainable model for video game development: dedicated outsourcing houses that a group of core creative leads can hire as needed.”
… and the current state-of-practice:
“That’s part of why studios shut down - they say, ‘Well, we don’t need this whole gigantic team of people behind games, so we’re just going to [lay off] and then we’ll rehire later’.”
… and the culture of estimation:
“many [developers] of whom tend to overestimate their skills and underestimate the challenges they have to face.”"
… and not everything can be outsourced
“The line of outsourceability is inversely related to how close to the player experience you get”