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Bungie doubling its staff for Halo 3
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| NEXT BOX 2005-03-07, 3:43 am |
| there are at least 130 people set to work on Halo 3, soon, if not already.
Microsoft and Bungie are roughly doubling their staff for the next
generation Halo 3 game, for the new Xbox.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busin...sftgames05.html
http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthrea...ht=Halo+working
http://www.totalgaming.co.uk/games/story.php?id=138
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06 March - In a recent interview with The Seattle-Post Intelligencer,
Microsoft Game Studios head man J. Allard revealed that Bungie Studios has
plans on doubling its development crew for Halo 3.
There were 65 people on staff that worked for the better part of two years
on Halo 2, but thanks to increased development spending and the
international success of the game, the third edition is looking to be worked
on by more than 130 people.
"Making a game is getting to be more and more like making a movie," said
Allard. "You need to hire more artists, more animators and more musicians."
This also essentially confirms that an actual Halo 3 in development as well,
so that's always good news to gamers.
Whether it launches on the PS3's launch date or not is still a rumor, but as
always, we'll have more on this as it gets announced.
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| i own a yacht 2005-03-07, 6:44 am |
| In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action NEXT BOX <nextbox@xbox2.net> wrote:
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> there are at least 130 people set to work on Halo 3, soon, if not already.
they don't need more. they need better.
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"Please excuse my posts in this thread this morning, I had not yet taken
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| NEXT BOX 2005-03-07, 5:44 pm |
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"i own a yacht" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action NEXT BOX <nextbox@xbox2.net> wrote:
already.[vbcol=seagreen]
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> they don't need more. they need better.
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they need more *and* better.
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| Jordan 2005-03-07, 5:44 pm |
| NEXT BOX wrote:
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> Monday 7th March 2005
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> BUNGIE DOUBLE UP FOR HALO 3
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> Staff doubles to push Xenon's flagship title
I hope they spend a little less time having picnics and playing tug of
war this time...
- Jordan
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| ScoopeX 2005-03-08, 5:45 pm |
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"NEXT BOX" <nextbox@xbox2.net> wrote in message
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> Monday 7th March 2005
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> BUNGIE DOUBLE UP FOR HALO 3
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> Staff doubles to push Xenon's flagship title
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> 13:34 US based newspaper the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has claimed that
> Microsoft are prepared to hurl people at the problem by doubling the
> amount
> of Bungie staffers dedicated to producing the eagerly anticipated but
> thoroughly unannounced Halo 3.
> With Halo 3 almost a cert to spearhead Xbox Xenon's push for next-gen
> domination, it would seem Microsoft is prepared to pull out all the stops
> to
> ensure that Halo 3 not only happens but appears as soon as possible after
> Xenon's launch, which we're currently pegging for the latter end of this
> year.
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> Chief XNA Architect and long-time Xbox guru J Allard revealed: "Making a
> game is getting to be more and more like making a movie. You need to hire
> more artists, more animators and more musicians."
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> No kidding, but there's a time imperative too for MS here, as Halo 3 is
> the
> one title absolutely guaranteed to shift units of the Xenon. With Halo 2
> appearing in November last year, that would give Bungie 12 months of
> development time on Halo 3 if work started the moment Halo 2 finished.
> However, more likely in our book is that work on Halo 3 will have started
> much earlier, possibly by a secret Bungie black ops group and MS could
> surprise us all by making it a Xenon launch title. This doubling of staff
> could be just what Bungie needs to make it happen by Xenon's currently
> projected November release date.
>
> All the most rampant of speculation on our part of course, but speculation
> informed by years of MS watching and really they don't tend to do these
> things by half.
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> Allard also went on to confirm that more than 65 people produced Bungie's
> magnum opus Halo 2, which would mean Halo 3 will consume a staff of at
> least
> 130.
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> One thing seems certain, the Master Chief cometh again and he's heading
> for
> Xenon.
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> John Houlihan
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> http://www.tinyurl.com/58g59
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Thanks yet again for posting this stuff, its a great read and your posts add
so much value to these usenet groups.
Keep them coming mate.
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| seems to me 2005-03-10, 5:43 pm |
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"NEXT BOX" <nextbox@xbox2.net> wrote in message
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> Monday 7th March 2005
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> BUNGIE DOUBLE UP FOR HALO 3
Arrgh!!! That's my pet peeve. It should be Bungie *Doubles* Up For Halo 3.
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"NEXT BOX" <nextbox@xbox2.net> wrote in message
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> "Making a game is getting to be more and more like making a movie," said
> Allard. "You need to hire more artists, more animators and more
> musicians."
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And yet we have so many expensive rushed sequel movies out there that failed
to capture the spark of the original, killing off what could have been an
ongiong masterpiece.
Sometimes you have to step back and let the original artistic light shine
instead of the management deciding to truck in the industrial strength
floodlights... 9 women cannot make a baby in a month.
(I'll stop here before spouting something too akin to Mythical Man Month
ramblings).
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| I'd much rather they take some time away from working to keep their sanity.
It results in a much better product. They worked their butts off on Halo 2
and I am sure that they will do nothing less for future games.
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RB
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"Jordan" <lundj@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> NEXT BOX wrote:
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> I hope they spend a little less time having picnics and playing tug of
> war this time...
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> - Jordan
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| Jordan 2005-03-23, 5:46 pm |
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RB wrote:
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> I'd much rather they take some time away from working to keep their
sanity.
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> It results in a much better product. They worked their butts off on
Halo 2
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> and I am sure that they will do nothing less for future games.
Did you see the extra footage on the collectors edition disc? They had
3 years of dev time and spent 2 playing grab-XXX...
- Jordan
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