[casual_games] How many hours does a programmer need...

[Lucas Meijer]

You should ask the programmer, not a bunch of people who have no idea 
how much
time it would take the same guy to change a lightbulb.

Bye, Lucas
> How many hours does a programmer need per week to finish a game with a
> dev time of 6-8 months?
>   
>   I've been talking to some programmers about a game I want to make and
> been asking them the hours they could spare if they did it on the side. 
> I've been getting answers ranging from 4-5 up to 7-10 hours a week.
>   
>   I was just curious how past developers who worked with people who did
> it on the side fared.  Can I compensate by having more than one
> programmer?  Because as far as I can tell from working with them the more
> programmers on a piece of code, the more muddled up it gets.
>   
>   Just to give you guys an idea, the game would be about as complex as
> diner dash, or a little more than that. 
>
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