RE: need a real programmer!
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:03:09 -0400
Chris, I do think we agree, yes. Posts from Tyler bring out the worst in me, I
appologise. Ken is much smarter than I am. That comes
from experience and old age *poke, poke*, and just doesn't respond anymore.
I'll try to do the same.
By the way, feel free to email me off list. It sounds like you've had some
experience/background in the biz?
Take care,
Sina
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher Coale
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 7:06 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: need a real programmer!
The reason I listed all of the Halo series as examples is because it is one of
the largest game franchises in existence right now,
falling only behind Call of Duty, who (imagine this) uses its own custom game
engine. Now I'm not saying, and never did say, that
companies don't use game engines. I'm saying that a lot of them will first
develop an in-house engine for their games and subsequent
games coming from them will use that same engine. For example, the list of
games that use Source, as you showed me, are mostly
developed by Valve (and they are ALL published by Valve). Valve developed
Source as an in-house engine, and now the majority of
their games use it -- imagine that. But again, I was never arguing that game
engines aren't used (of course they are), just that a
lot of firms will develop their own in-house engine first and then use those
engines for subsequent publications and developments.
Valve (Source), Microsoft, Infinity Ward, Epic Games, Bungie, Crytek, Ubisoft,
etc. They all developed in-house engines for their
games, and now they use these engines for their own publications and
development.--
But really, my main point was that you seemed to think that hardly any work
went into making a game. I would argue that it's one of
the most complicated and time consuming programming jobs out there. But as long
as you understand that, then we're all good.
On 8/3/2011 3:22 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:
the Source game engine is responsible for the Garry's mod physics sandbox, but
also for these rather notable games:
Counter-Strike: Source
Half-Life 2
Day of Defeat: Source
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Team Fortress 2
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Dino D-Day
Portal
Portal 2
beat-em-up Zeno Clash
Vindictus
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