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They mentioned that in some of their twitch streams relatively short after Unreal 4s initial release. I don't remember the number, but it was smaller than what I thought it would be. Plus of course the people not working for epic who contribute to the source code on github.

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Do you at least remember how big you thought it would be? Currently I have no idea of even the magnitude of the team.

I believe it was around 70-80 engineers, and the number mentioned in the twitch stream was lower (keep in mind I have no experience when it comes to writing large 3d engines. maybe my expectation was ridiculous to begin with). I actually tried to hunt down the video in which they mentioned that, but Epic is just too productive when it comes to producing videos, and I gave up. :D

I would say 70 is definitely very high for an engine. Most games don't even have that many programmers overall. Although I guess this also comes down to definitions. Like do the IDE/tool builders also go under the engine team? Then 70 isn't too high.

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