Gamespot has released a new feature on their site called "Project Gotham Racing Designer Diary". This first part is a "Day in the life". Here is a snippet:
The team currently has four producers--a senior producer, a producer, an associate producer, and a producer borrowed from another project to help at this crucial stage. They look after the team, the progress, the milestones, putting builds together, collating data, and so on. They have three production support people who work with them at the moment, and they're doing the circuit layouts, checking gameplay issues, and so on. Like many developers, we don't have a test team here at Bizarre. The publisher (in this case, Microsoft) looks after that side of things for us. We now have a whopping 15 artists on the project. This is broken down roughly into city modelers and texturers, car modelers, 2D artists, and a user-interface artist. They also do some of the presentation stuff that's needed for the game, such as renders, magazine covers, and so on.
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