Ten months is a long time in game development

DURING EPIC'S MEDIA briefing, at the Game Developers Conference last week, the developers of Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia were bragging how they were able to develop the game in just ten months, thanks to flexibility shown by the Unreal Engine 3.

However, our faithful readers suggest that all may not be so rosy in the wonderland of game development, since that claim seems to be in collision with reality.

Readers Mani and Jeff came back to us to say that Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia may not be as new as the developers claim, since the game debuted on Gameslave.co.uk site in June of 2005, or just a little bit under two years ago. The first in-game screenshot appeared on the site with first day of July 2005.

We know that time in game development terms can be warped by the odd black hole. Perhaps this is the reason why we are waiting for Duke Nukem Forever for such a long period of time: UE3 engine is so easy to develop that 3DRealms just thinks its 1999 all over again. µ

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