Actually I forgot to mention... When I see quotes of 200000 lines etc I always think ..

"their code probably has debugging and error handling" :>

It takes a hell of a lot of lines just to initialize Directx, let alone the actual code....

also think of the number of lines that are just plain comments.

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A man with no head is still a man.
A head with no man is plain freaky.

Note that this varies tremendously with the quality of code. Better written code usually has far fewer lines. If you pound something out with little planning, it will usually be bulkier. Most game companies have half a dozen or more people coding on one project, so the code tends to be a bit less cohesive than it would be if only one or two people were working on it.

FYI, a smallish commercial 2D game I worked on several years ago had 10,000 lines of code, not counting comments or blank lines.

not many comments in my code...I''m a sloppy programmer hehe

Lets face it, its not the LOC number that matters, its the quality of the code. Its alright having 200000 lines but if its buggy nobody would want to run it.

More thought needs to be put into the design and quality at the beginning, doing this and you will notice that the number of lines decrease from start of design to end (more quality, less quantity)