THE BATTLESTATIONS: PACIFIC INDEX: EIDOS HUNGARY, BY THE NUMBERS
The team behind just-released action game Battlestations: Pacific provide a crazy charming Harper’s Index-style breakdown of their development process by the numbers. An excerpt:
Oldest member of the dev team: 49yrs
Youngest member of the dev team: 23yrs
Average age at Eidos Hungary: 31.41yrs
Official Eidos Hungary Parties: 5
Average number of coffee mugs left on the balcony overnight: 12
Number of devs playing guitar: 6
Number of monitors per developer: 1.5
Biggest TV screen in the office: 62 inch
Number of Imperial Japanese naval flags in the office: 3
Number of 48-star US flags in the office: 3
Number of British White Ensign flags in the office: 2
Amount of milk used for coffees during development: 3240 litres/856 US gallons
Amount of bottled water consumed in the office during development: 17680 litres/4670 US gallons
Number of developers who created all FMV’s in the game: 6
Devs reading Battlestations.net & other forums at least once a day: 16
See the full breakdown for more, including a log of Total Gross Register Tonnage resulting from sunken ships during dev and testing.
Battlestations: Pacific – The Facts, The Stats, The Truth. [Battlestations.net, via Margaret]
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