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[slash_tr]

hello there fellas ! 
we are doing a school project (involving game development) and we just need to estimate some costs

here is how the system works
there is a screen (lets say a pc monitor)
an NFC point (attached to the pc)
a pc with wi-fi

the process:
a couple of users touch the NFC point, a terms and conditions thing pops up on their smartphones and if they agree they are allowed in the hidden Wi-Fi and the system recognizes their phone and sends them the corresponding game controller software (app) whatever..
so the controllers are the only things that run on the phones but the game itself will run on the PC

the costs that we are trying to come up with
1-time / people / money required to develop a 2d game like pacman
2-time / people / money required to develop a 3d game like Asphalt 7
3-time / people / money required to develop a this platform (the server-side software which will allow the all these pieces of hardware to communicate - imagine a single platform like this allowing many games to run on it more or less the same way)
4-any technical barriers to this ?

please mention all your time + money and human resource estimations

thanks a lot !!

[James Coote]

I've seen the figure $100k/year for a developer bandied about, where about $50k of that is salary and the rest is tax, healthcare insurance, office rent and other misc overheads

2
A game like Asphalt 7 I would guess takes at least 12 man months, probably more. I know Riptide GP for android took two developers 6 months to adapt from a similar game they made for xbox

4
Not played with NFC, but just looking at the android documentation for NFC, the user will have to have the app already installed, though it doesn't have to be running, as android, when reading a tag/message it gets from the NFC point, will try to start an app it thinks is appropriate

It should then be theoretically possible to connect to a specific wifi network and from there, connect to a server hosting games or content or whatever

[idmadj]

From the average outsourcing studio, you're looking at the following approximate costs:
1. 3 weeks / 4 people / $15k
2. 4-6 months / 6-10 people / $800k+

The PC won't be able to send the app to the phone directly. For Android, you'd need the user's phone drivers to be installed on the PC, and users would need to allow unsigned apps to be run, which can only be done manually. iOS doesn't even allow direct app installation. It has to be downloaded from the App Store.

Also, most importantly, not all phones have NFC chips (iPhones, for instance), although QR-codes could be used on such phones.