How Much Do Video Games Cost to Make? 5 Real Examples! [2019]

How much do video games cost to make? How much should you budget for your indie game? How much money should you save before going full indie? We get these types of question a lot! For any aspiring game developer out there, it's important to not just know how much it can cost to make all sorts of games, but also where these costs come from and how budgets for creating games are decided upon.

In this video we are going to look at 5 REAL WORLD examples of video game production budgets.

CORRECTIONS:
Our apologies to Dim Bulb Games. The amount cited in the Medium article was not the full development budget. Also, Johnnemann NordhagenI is not a first-time dev. He's worked on games for over 16 years and has shipped a number of titles including Bioshock 2 and Gone Home.

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► Further Reading ►
►► https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/2019/07/05/anniversary-shovel-knight-2-5-million-copies/
►► http://weatherfactory.biz/state-of-the-factory-year-1/
►► https://medium.com/@johnnemann/where-the-water-tastes-like-wine-postmortem-211a1f9d791a
►► https://steamcommunity.com/app/274500/discussions/0/405691491102673468/?tscn=1456139312#c405692224242982114
►► http://documents.latimes.com/bungie-activision-contract/

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