Graeme Devine Leaves id Software 22
Thanks to Gamasutra.com for their news report (registration required) indicating that Graeme Devine has left id Software for Microsoft-owned Ensemble, the developers of the Age Of Empires series. The article elaborates: "Devine's career covers a substantial swath of videogame history, starting with porting games such as Pole Position for Atari while still in high school in the U.K. in the early 1980s. He later co-founded Trilobyte, where he was central to the development of the seminal CD-ROM title The 7th Guest and its follow-up, The 11th Hour. Most recently Devine was working on Doom 3 for id, in roles ranging from project manager to designer to programmer." Further details are as yet unavailable, but the piece suggests "..in his new role at Ensemble, Devine will be focusing primarily on game design."
Throws fist up in the air and says (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Throws fist up in the air and says (Score:2)
Give me a break (Score:2, Funny)
Grow up.
Re:Give me a break (Score:1, Flamebait)
real men lost a great one
Re:Give me a break (Score:1)
Keep in mind that
A - Any gamer will most likely have a Windows box laying around to play the myriad of games that have not been ported to linux.
B - You have no idea what my Window-Linux-other usage patterns are.
You have obviously shown that you don't really care about games/gameplay themselves, only the politiks(sic) behind them. Go troll elsewhere.
Re:Give me a break (Score:1)
But there are plently of people like me who are casual gamers that do (at least 2 dozen by my count). And we have suffered a loss.
That was the way I interpretted the original post. That Linux users have lost a game programmer. It doesn't matter where he goes, since ID is about the only big company really supporting Linux.
Obviously you use some Windows, or you would consider it a loss when someone
Warm up the lawyers in the bullpen... (Score:1)
BC
Re:Warm up the lawyers in the bullpen... (Score:2)
I bet he was reading slashdot... (Score:1)
Now will this affect Doom3? I don't know, even if it does I don't think it will affect it as much as the release of the HL2 engine.
conspiracy! (Score:2)
A shame, for Mac users especially (Score:5, Insightful)
I hope the id can get someone else with good Mac experience and dedication to ensure that the Mac ports of their games are as good as they can be.
Re:A shame, for Mac users especially (Score:2)
Re:A shame, for Mac users especially (Score:2)
Re:A shame, for Mac users especially (Score:1)
Unrest (Score:1)
No so amazing (Score:2, Informative)
Also since they'll down Texas way it wouldn't be such a huge change.
Petersen is working on a secret project unrelated to the Age series and I guess they need some more help. With the success of the Age series and now the financial backing of MS hiring great game designers is a smart move.
Cheers
VikingBrad