The People behind RDR2
In this article, you can see valuable information about the role distribution, seniority, and breakdowns per department of the development team behind RDR2.
Let's get started: (all info available at https://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadonline/thankyou)
Departments:
Key takeaways:
- We see an overall decrease of workers compared to GTA V development team, of around -937 people (-17%).
- The total number of people that worked at RDR2 are 4,741. In GTA V, they were 5,678
- In RDR2, there's more artists than testers, unlike GTA V. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CezMKHhBbMymekGPJBkEtsvEKuknwKEVCH7E_GrpuZk/edit?gid=0#gid=0)
- The majority of testers are from Rockstar India.
- If you're an environment artist, apply at R*.
- Engine and Graphics Programmers in R* are 1:1
- R* Dundee is the studio with less workers.
- Average localizers per language is 10.4 people.
- The Associate-Junior Ratio is 469:13
- There are more vice presidents than Juniors.
- Each QA Lead oversees 7-10 testers.
- There's 1 director per 5 seniors.
- Put your takeaway in the comments :-)
This game just can't stop selling:
Note: There maybe inaccuracies, although I revised a lot. I didn't went one by one person, what i did is CTRL+F'ED the terms and carefully wrote down the number in the spreadsheet, this may not include contractors, voice actors and alike. Enjoy the data :)! r/dataisbeautiful lol
What surprised you most about the RDR2 development team breakdown? See you! :P
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