In my country (Croatia) there are few developing firms that do bussiness software primary and do games occassionaly. We had a few local hits, two adventure games and one puzzle, and two worldwide hits (ever played Serious Sam 1 or 2)? My point is, there ARE quite a few poeple that develop games, but for 100% of us, that's just a hobby: you cannot survive in these parts of the earth if you do games, because you cannot properly marketize it and it will not sale; that's the reason you cannot find any company. Everyone of us earn salary in some kind of other bussines, often not connected to the IT at all, put aside programming.
If you search for the individuals, and you're willing to organize a team, or search among smallest companies (4-5 people), you could have luck.
On the other hand, I'm not sure if anyone of hobbysts would accept the offer - the money IS NOT the issuse, but the spare time. I, for example, do games (read: game) in my spare time, and I'm quite satisfied by sharing my spare time by my will (because I don't have much spare time), and no money will cover that. When its done (the game), it will go to freeware or public domain. The money I would potentially earn by programming for outsourcing firm is really not enough: I can do better for a lower-mental-demand job here.
On the popular topic of outsourcing.
Hi
I just had a look at some of these companies at gamasutra
Just wondering how much would I have to pay for a high quality playermodel
with arond 3000-5000 triangles
skinned and boned with characterstudio
and maybe bumpmapped as well
just asking because outsourcing sounds pretty interesting to me, since I don t have the money and the talent to do models on my own
Any idea ?
I just had a look at some of these companies at gamasutra
Just wondering how much would I have to pay for a high quality playermodel
with arond 3000-5000 triangles
skinned and boned with characterstudio
and maybe bumpmapped as well
just asking because outsourcing sounds pretty interesting to me, since I don t have the money and the talent to do models on my own
Any idea ?
http://www.8ung.at/basiror/theironcross.html
Really? Maybe I should move! Although you guys have to pay (a lot) for university right?
I would disagree with you on unavailability of Game Dev companies in India. We, for one, are specialists in outsourcing and have 4-5 outsourced projects running parallely at any given time. We have a dedicated service wing at Raptor Entertainment that handles outsourced projects alone. Also, our average annual salaries are WAY lower than in other nations. Talk about a senior programmer getting paid anywhere between $10000-$15000 per annum. This includes his insurance, perks etc. India is definitely worth a stopover incase of any outsourced work you are looking at.
Thanks.
Vidyuth Srinivasan
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d000g: $25,000 for an entry level programmer?
In America, $25,000 is about what you make working at the grocery store or McDonalds, maybe slightly higher.
Average starting salary for a computer science graduate last year was $47,000
YAY!!!
Is this true???
Man i'm definately moving overseas when I graduate then!!
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You cant outsource game development.
There are no companies in India that would do this for you.
Indian outsourcing companies are specialized in business apps (JAVA,DATABASE,PHP, etc etc), they don't know jack about 3d graphics, math, game development.
Sorry.
Not really true these days.
For instance, see:
http://www.kbvis.com
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