Today the guys from the Gamerscore Blog placed a link to an interesting article on Rocky Mountain News. They did an interview with Bizarre Creations about Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved.

How long did it take and how many people worked on creating Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved?

It was mainly Stephen as all the graphics are coded, although obviously we had some music written by Audio Antics and a couple of artists did the Live Arcade and achievements artwork. It wasn’t an exact ’start-to-finish’ project, as Stephen added in bits when he had time, but all-in-all it was probably about 3 months.

How does that compare to PGR 3?

Oh, miles apart! We had a total of 80 people working on PGR3 at one point, along with some outsourced graphics as well. The game took 2 years from start to finish, and probably averaged a team size of 40 - so it’s 3 versus nearly 1,000 man months!!!

Their current estimate is that 63,000 people have bought the game so far. They don’t know how many people are playing the trial version, but since it came with PGR 3 there’s a big chance quite a few people have tried it so far! If you want to read the complete interview, point your browser here.