When you compare the novel War and Peace Development it looks very like today's porn game development (outsourcing included).
Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace over six years, from 1863 to 1869:
- Planning: The earliest storylines date back to 1856.
- Serialization: The novel was originally serialized in the Russian periodical Russkiy Vestnik under the title 1805 from 1865 to 1867.
- Publication: The novel was published in volumes, with three volumes released by 1868 and the remaining three published between 1868 and 1869.
- Illustration: Tolstoy hired Mikhail Bashilov to illustrate the novel.
War and Peace is Tolstoy's first successful novel. It chronicles the French invasion of Russia and its aftermath during the Napoleonic era. The novel is divided into four books and fifteen parts, with an epilogue in two parts. When first published, it was more than 1,200 pages long.
So Leo managed it why can't our dev?