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"The game was also built for a fraction of the usual cost. ... would typically take years and millions of dollars for a studio of Bossa’s size to build, but they did it in roughly a year and with just a core team of front-end developers."

vs

"In their ground floor office on a bland-looking block in Farringdon, a team of about 60 engineers from MIT, Goldman Sachs and Google sit at $40 desks writing code..."

Typical in gamedev :) (e.g. Unity Technologies):

"“Eventually we realized the tech we were working on was bigger than the game,” says Whitehead."



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