3D Game Development Out-Sourcing to India

India is really coming out with all side cannons firing.

Programming has been going over for a while now, cheap... As expected.

Today I found an e-mail in my inbox, from a company from India. I often get ones from a Company in the UK about if I want to publish my games to the Russian audience. But this one was about if I wanted to Out-Source the 3D modelling aspect of Game Dev to them.

I get these e-mails because they find my details at Garage Games. A great start for any one with C++ knowledge and wants a real engine to develop with.

I am rather shocked at this really. I don't like all this out-sourcing. I'm not a company just a hobbyist, so it is a rather good idea for me cheap and effective (I guess? it could be really shotty). I just don't like the idea that stacks of artist jobs will go to India and thus kick out our local 3D modellers.

With this said, I don't really have a reason as to why it’s wrong to Out-Source the work. But it just seems wrong to leave your fellow workers aside for an out-sourced work.

I don't see the larger companies using this(id Software, Atari, Remedy etc), as they won't have complete control over what happens with the works (mesh, skins, animations...). But smaller companies that produce 1000s of cheap games made in no-programming required environments like Virtools (mainly for console games) I'm sure they use it a lot.

And that makes me come to another thing, how can they let Virtools exist! Sure it’s a fantastic piece of software, congrats for the great job, but don’t use it! Some poor people get handed that for Game Development courses that they pay $1000's for.

3D Artists maybe wearing T-Shirts much like this soon also.

(T-shirt image from www.theregister.co.uk you can also buy a mug there)