How many people and who are they on the development team?

[Skull Punch]

The more I look into this game i become amazed at how much has been done in 7 months.

Single player and Multi player
Supports mods.
Xbox 1 and PC
Electricty and pipeing system
Mounts/ flying mounts
Modular weapons ( I think I heard this on an interview )
Tier'd tech
Taming
Hand crafted world with a complex cave system and underwater enviroment.
Not to mention very nice graphics for alpha.

And a bunch of other stuff. It's just mind boggeling how much has been done in such a short amount of time.

So anyways I was wondering how many people at Studio Wildcard were working on this?
Also do you have any ideas on how often you will be releasing updates during early access?

Thanks!

[Mr_Jatt]

idk how many , i just wanna buy game i hope its not like other games

[Mr_Jatt]

i wanna real servial type not game survival
like dayz, warz, other stupid fake

[ryanucas]

over 40

[Jat]

There's around a team of more than 40 who work on the game.

[GODKING]

Hi Skull Punch!

The list of devs land around 40.
There are some members of the development team that have worked on titles such as the Uncharted Series and Primal Carnage.

Updates will be sent out every other day so you can look at possibly; Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday.

Hope this answers some questions!

Paul

[Dinosaurus]

It seems likely that the core team is like 15 or so probably with some contractors thrown in.
For sure from forum posts the below have been noticed.

Jesse- a previously lead tech art director at Microsoft... and now co creative director for Ark
Ashton Anderson - from primal carnage doing the creature designs, though probably with his own art team added on
Gareth Coker - doing music
Jat- tester/community manager
Right Hand- not sure of position
Left Hand- not sure of position
Right Foot- not sure of position
Drake- seems like an engineer from how he answer

I think that is everything so far except the pr company ....

Their contracted PR firm, Reverb, has represented (I found this on their website):
Guitar Hero, Rock Band, The Beatles: Rock Band, Dance Central, Star Trek Online, Champions Online, Army of Darkness, Insurgency, Sanctum 2 and Dungeon Defenders

All in all seems like a solid group so far from what we know. We may not learn a whole lot more as the internet seems to be very unkind to people that make their lives public knowledge, causing them to shy away from being too public especially in the survival genre.

[Jat]

Wow, you've done your research!

[Skull Punch]

Thanks for the response and that's an amazingly aggressive update schedule. Was just curious since so much work seems to have been done. I would say good job but ill reserve that for June 2 ;)

[Dinosaurus]

Originally posted by Wildcard Jat:

Wow, you've done your research!

I try :)

[TheLeftHand]

TheRightHand is the guy that plays the treble clef.
I'm the guy that plays the bass clef.
TheRightFoot presses the pedals, obviously.
:-P

[Whims]

Originally posted by TheLeftHand:

TheRightHand is the guy that plays the treble clef.
I'm the guy that plays the bass clef.
:-P

I just realized there are two hands lol

[RaimoWaan]

They have already earned a ♥♥♥♥ load of money but still they wont hire more people to work on the project so it would be done faster... Yeah ofc who the ♥♥♥♥ cares anymore? They cashed in all the money so who cares right?

[HighFlyer15]

Originally posted by vivik:

They have already earned a ♥♥♥♥ load of money but still they wont hire more people to work on the project so it would be done faster... Yeah ofc who the ♥♥♥♥ cares anymore? They cashed in all the money so who cares right?

Who says they aren't looking? Also nice necro just to be negative :P

[Demonen]

Originally posted by vivik:

They have already earned a ♥♥♥♥ load of money but still they wont hire more people to work on the project so it would be done faster... Yeah ofc who the ♥♥♥♥ cares anymore? They cashed in all the money so who cares right?

If you think more people on the team will magically make development go faster then I'm afraid you have misunderstood the process.

Try going into the kitchen and making food.
Now invite 20 of your friends over, take them into the kitchen and see if "food development" is faster or slower.

No, just adding people does nothing. Adding specialists to do specialist tasks, sure, that works.

[Wardiaper]

And every one of them awesome.


. . . ummm, can I have free stuff?