Someone wants me to make VR Fortnite for them what the fu-

"You use the keyboard on your computer, you must know how!"

"I'm going to need a starting capital of 550..."

"That's reasonable"

"...thousand dollars, at least 10 senior devs, around 40 asset artists, 5 for sound design..."

(If they ask the question seriously, give them a serious answer 😁)

Stupidity is limitless in this type of people..

@bittersweet I shut them down very quickly. They are stupid, but at least they have money. I’m being paid to make a smaller game for them now. :)

@bittersweet

10k for each person? I guess you would hope to get the project done quickly? I would not bet on that budget. I bet you'd blow more than half a million on legal/licensing just to deal with epic megapricks.

@bahua That's why I said "starting capital"... you need to get things up and running. Then you should eventually get more investments, and start generating revenue.

I've never set up a game studio, but the startup I work for started with 500k, then 2M, then 17M investments, growing from just me as developer, to over a hundred developers.

I think the challenge with games is the lack of revenue until release date -- you either need substantial loans, or go down the early access road which is also quite tough.