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wly_cdgr
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The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 is definitely a dramatically bigger game than Hades, but it also had 400+ people working on it for twice as long as the couple dozen Supergiant employees worked on Hades
teruakohatu
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A team of 400 people working on a project do not work at the same speed as 33 teams of 12 working on 33 different projects.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
wly_cdgr
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Yes, I am well aware. However they do occasionally manage to get more done than 20 people working on the same project would. Not always, admittedly
jhanschoo
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Which makes scheduling exponentially harder and mistakes costlier.
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