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Anyone have any ideas on how to better structure game development? It seems like the studio-corporation model doesn’t really pan out long term in most cases. A few niches like ConcernedApe and Wube seem to be doing fine… maybe the era of “ big” studios is over?

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To be honest, I’m slightly concerned for Wube in the medium term. They had one mega hit, but they’ve scaled up a lot from that (I think the average team size over factorio development was like… six and they now have like 30). There’s no guarantee their next game is a hit which is the cruel reality of game dev as an industry.

ConcernedApe likely made enough for one person to FIRE on so he’s probably fine and maybe haunted chocolatier even does get finished one day.

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