[gameprogrammer] Ideas... Re: Re: PC game Outsourcing

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 14:11, Drew Macier wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Pendleton" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Gameprogrammer Mailing List" <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 1:02 PM
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: PC game Outsourcing
> > All those cool toys you get in video games will be on the battle field
> > any day now.
> >
> > Bob Pendleton
> 
> Which is a good argument that it's no longer War that gives us great ideas
> and inventions. It's now video games and that industry that give us ideas
> for new inventions and technologies in real life...

Well, science fiction is a good source of ideas. Except for fluid body
armor every thing I listed was in a scifi book written before 1959 and
arguably before 1935.

> 
> Unreal Tournament is probably one of the best resources for the militaries
> "New Ideas"... Heck, Unreal Tournament's developers should get a kick back
> from the military... He-he.

Hate to break it to you, but most of those ideas were taken right out of
70 year old SF stories. Recently I've been reading and rereading SF
published before 1926 ('cause it is now public domain) and mining it for
ideas. :-)

> 
> - drew.

                Bob Pendleton
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