CA mobile boss: iOS dev effort to hit 'console complexity'

May 10th, 2012, 23:38 Posted By: wraggster

Increasing intricacy could rapidly see making mobile games mimic the triple-A console space, predicts Total War Battles lead

The man leading the Total War Battles team at The Creative Assembly has predicted that mobile developers could soon find themselves facing the same challenges currently prevalent in the sphere of triple-A console games making.
Speaking in a feature in the new edition of Develop, The Creative Assembly's Renaud Charpentier, who lead the internal division that created Total War Battles: Shogun for iOS, stated a belief that as mobile game development tools, team sizes and techniques increase in scope and complexity, studios making mobile titles will soon mimic those making big budget console games.

Initially reflecting on his pleasure at moving from working on the likes of The Creative Assembly's infamously intricate PC games to a small mobile team and a smaller team, Charpentier spoke fondly of the efficiency, creativity and energy he experienced in building an iOS title, drawing comparisons with the console development space in the mid-to-late-ninties.
"It sounds perfect," Charpentier stated. "But it is going to change quickly, because those [mobile] devices are getting more powerful all the time. As that happens, surely we will need more people. It's the same as the change in the console space from PlayStation 1 to Playstation 3. Perhaps the 'iPad 4' will probably be more powerful than a PS3, and you will have big players wanting to do triple-A on the device.
"I don't see how they will avoid having at least 30 or 40 people on the game. That is even already the case at some places making triple-A games for mobile. It's almost going full cirle. A console complexity is starting to be seem when making mobile games."

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