As someone who has been in the industry since 2006, and as the Lead Producer of this year's upcoming Evil West game, Tomasz Gop is extremely aware of how hard it is for a game to gain traction in what is proving to be an increasingly congested marketplace. At Gamescom this year, I spoke to him about this, and also got to gain some insight in terms of how he thinks the industry has changed since he entered the industry 16 years ago. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=465zR0PkCnQ
Your latest game, Evil West... How long has it been in development for?
I've been working on it since pretty much the beginning. It's going to be four years come the release, which is November 22nd. But yeah, we could say four years is about the time that we took to give birth to this baby.
How many people are working on it at present? I guess you'll be at maximum staff right now?
Yeah, it's actually decreasing right now because we're already past beta, so the biggest spike is already behind us. But we planned to be about 100 people at max, but it turned out to be about 150. Right now we're below 150, but we're probably still over 100 right now. And it's going to decrease come the release date.
If I was to describe Evil West, I would pitch it as Gears o...