与其他平台的游戏相比，手机游戏一向被视为开发周期相对较短、投入成本低、利润可观的高速发展领域，但实际情况并不总是这么乐观：澳大利亚开发商Firemint最近就透露，《实况赛车2》的开发周期长达18个月，投入成本也高达200万美元。

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Firemint因热门iOS游戏《Flight Control》而闻名，这款游戏迄今为止在苹果App Store的下载量已经超过400万次。

游戏邦了解到，Firemint在2009年初就开发了原版《实况赛车》，该公司代表Logan Booker曾向媒体表示，他们团队原本将《实况赛车》定位为“高价”游戏，为《实况赛车2》制定的目标则更高，“比起原版游戏，《实况赛车2》的视觉效果、操作设置和内容都更出色，而且特别针对iPhone 4及其Retina显示技术进行了优化。”

尽管这款游戏投入了200万美元的开发费用，历时18个月才正式完工，但Firemint直到最近才在原来iPhone版本的基础上，推出了《实况赛车2》的iPad版本，并针对这一平台进行了更多优化处理。

Booker表示，他们致力于让这个版本的游戏运行效果发挥到极致，添加了抗锯齿处理，强化了物体细节和游戏界面等效果。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Firemint: Real Racing 2 Took $2M Budget, 18 Months Development

The mobile app space is widely touted as a high-growth area because of its relatively short dev cycles and budgets that tend to be more accessible than other platforms, but that’s not always the case: Firemint has revealed its Real Racing 2 took 18 months to build — with a not-so-modest $2 million budget.

Firemint’s best known for its successful iOS game Flight Control, which as of the beginning of this year had sold 3.9 million units on the App Store (it has since passed 4 million units).

But Firemint began creation of 2009′s original Real Racing first, beginning in May 2008. The company’s Logan Booker told Pocket Full of Megabytes that the team intended the franchise to be “premium” from the start, and that Real Racing 2 aimed to go even further.

“Real Racing 2 expanded significantly on visuals, handling and content of the first game, and specific optimizations for iPhone 4 and its retina display,” Booker says.

Although the $2 million budget and 18-month dev cycle was only discussed in the context of the iPhone version of the game, the Australian developer recently launched an iPad version of Real Racing 2 that implemented optimizations specific to that device.

“We’ve gone all out for this version of the game, adding anti-aliasing, enhanced reflections and high-detail objects and surfaces,” says Booker. （source:gamasutra）